Here's another one, courtesy of BobAnother poll, another winner advances. Alive in the Chesapeake moves on along with previous round winners Twirling, Twirling, Twirling Towards Freedom and Salisbury News. They’ll join the winner of the next round and two second-place finisher wild cards in the semifinals next week.
AitC captured a record 42 votes in the contest (58%) [...]

[T]he entire financial system became one gigantic fraud machine during the last 20 and especially the last 10 years.
...This is the fundamental scam in finance [...]
Politico tells me the White House is telling Reid to cave in to Lieberman's demands and strip out the Medicare buy in and that there's an emergency caucus meeting today. I wonder if Lieberman is invited to the Democratic caucus meeting where they will discuss [...]

Kudos to Jenny Hopkinson of the Salisbury Daily Times for writing an articleabout the case where Pocomoke PD officer refused to make an [...]
But let’s cut the bullshit about the bailouts being intended to help ordinary homeowners and save auto workers. We could have paid off every subprime mortgage in America for about $1.4 trillion and instead shelled [...]
This is fun to watch. For some reason my 2nd poll didn’t close when intended, but the overall result didn’t change. Twirling, Twirling, Twirling Toward Freedom won the 2nd round with 33 votes (63%) and moves on, with Salisbury Soapbox coming in second by grabbing 19 votes (36%) and On [...]





If you can't read it, click on the image to enlarge the letter.Though the holiday season is the most hectic time of year for all of us, I nonetheless wanted to share an exciting poetics blog I recently discovered called How a Poem Happens that is quickly becoming one of the best poetry sites online. Edited by Virginia poet Brian Brodeur, the weekly updates feature [...]
I want to keep this short because I think the post underneath is important.
The first round is complete, and Salisbury News advances to the next round as it narrowly eked out a win over afterthegoldrush 47%-39%, with Progressive Delmarva bringing up the rear at 14 percent.
At the suggestion of the [...]
Update: Consumer Credit shrank by record amount.
The credit crisis is so tough that Santa had to rob a bank, allegedly. In other news, Santa outsourced his toy factories to China.
Pretty good turnout so far. We'll have a more in-depth post later.