Weekend Update - March 8th

• Check out the new Carl Faddis video over on the left, "Just Like You." This was originally a training video for LTD operators, produced by Carl, and Richard Shrope. Carl wrote the beautiful song, and the people you see in the video are people I work with every day, employees and passengers. It is so well done that other transit organizations around the U.S. are picking it up and using it for training. Click on it and prepare to have your cockles warmed.


• "How is it that no one but you and a few manic fringe writers seem to notice that President Obama is either A) a thinly veiled socialist commie instigator hell-bent on destroying America from the inside out, or B) nothing more than a cleverly disguised corporate-loving Bush clone because, oh my God, haven't you seen his policy on H1Bs and faith-based initiatives and his nefarious plan to take over the banks and, um, something else you can't quite remember right now but you're sure is really, really damning?" Mark Morford.


• Mark Rich: "Some Things Don't Change in Grover's Corner."


• Senator "Big" John Cornyn is circulating a petition demanding that the Obama administration come clean about it's "conspiracy" campaign to smear Rush Limbaugh. I'd start laughing but my head already hurts.


• Look, I've got a better idea than this. The government should first freeze all prices just as they are now for one year, then issue all taxpayers who are worth less than $5 million a tax free check for $1,000,000. Everybody becomes a millionaire. Bills would be paid off, banks would flourish, the stock market would soar, the auto industry would operate in the black, people could afford health insurance, we could afford to go to the Olive Garden on a weekend, etc. Of course there'd be some problems, but the benefits would greatly outweigh them. Oh, I know I'll hear from some of you saying no, you can't just give people money but Hey! it's a better idea than giving the BANKS trillions of dollars!


• This week's picture is of Diogenes, who supposedly carried a lamp through the streets of Athens during daylight, looking for an honest man. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Newt Gingrich.