edited by: Vivian Paige,
Virginia Editor
The Muppets, doing “Bohemian Rhapsody.“
(For my money, the mashup of Bert and Ernie doing a scene from “Casino” is even funnier, but it’s also got more F-words in it than, um, something with a whole bunch of other F-words in it. So you’ll have to seek [...]
The Nation’s Katha Pollitt is sick and tired of commentary about Sarah Palin, and she can’t stop writing it, either. The result is a very funny riff on the maddening frustration of trying to analyze Alaska’s giant bundle of internal contradictions.
' [...]Today’s column about developments in climate science, or lack thereof, says none of us really knows the truth for certain, one way or the other.
[...]Plymouth was an early economic object lesson:
In 1620 Plymouth Plantation was founded with a system of communal property rights. Food and supplies were held in common and then distributed based on equality and need as determined by Plantation officials. People received the same rations whether or not [...]
While most Americans were enjoying turkey and football with their families, Dubai World--the financial arm of Dubai--announced that it would be "postponing" the repayment of billions of dollars of debt. [...] 
In 1998, with impeachment in the air and the Clinton administration being hobbled by the investigation of the nature of the president’s relationships with various women -- most notoriously, Monica Lewinsky -- eventually, I felt called upon to lampoon the scandal. So I created a series [...] Fresh off the news that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (i.e. the stimulus act) has created over a dozen new Congressional districts (I’m running in the new 00 district myself), it looks like Chairman R. Allen Webb of the 99th House of Delegates Republican Committee has created [...]
Washington, D.C.
Genius should be encouraged. [...] 
As you gather around the table with family and friends to give thanks for all our blessings … don’t forget those less fortunate and most in need … I urge you to consider making some contribution to your local area food bank … [...] The folks at “I’m Surrounded By Idiots” (that would be me) have been wondering for a long time where exactly Catherine Crabill got her infamous ‘ballot box or bullet box’ quote (since Patrick Henry never said anything remotely similar — ever).
While spending too much time on Wikipedia, I came across [...]
Some pictures deserve their own post… [...] The Roanoke Times agrees that the eminent-domain case involving Carilion, Virginia Tech, and the city teaming up to seize a couple’s land by force is riddled with problems:
The facts as presented in Broadhurst’s ruling call into question the legitimacy of the process that led to this [...]
A little Rule 5 action for a slow Wednesday here in central Virginia. And a little video with “special” music, just for Smitty.Â
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[...] Bonus point: The car dealership owner who put up the billboard evidently hasn’t learned the First Rule of Holes. His choice of words in an interview with FOX 31 News was, shall we say, dismally awful.
[...]The NYT was extremely interested in a purported relationship between John McCain and a female lobbyist, and spent an awful lot of shoe-leather and time putting together a front-page story that eventually earned it a defamation lawsuit.
Its interest in the e-mails hacked from the Hadley CRU in [...]
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