Weekend Update - March 1st

• Okay, the new American Embassy in Baghdad only cost us taxpayers $736 MILLION. Maybe John McCain's right. We ARE going to be there for 100 years.


• Due for a colonoscopy? Have Aetna Insurance? Ouch.


• What?! Gasoline is up to almost $4 a gallon? Someone tell the President! Please!


• Tim Russert's performance as a moderator of last week's debate has drawn widespread criticism. We think he's just a squinty-eyed MSMputz. Or to quote Uncle Bob: "Here is overwhelming evidence that Tim Russert is a right wing media clown who would not recognize the truth if Molly Ivins arose from her grave and bashed his fat face with it."


• And speaking of Molly Ivins....Molly Ivins, Elvis, and Obama.


• Dan Rather slamming corporate control of MSM newsrooms? Repent! The End Is Near!


• Uncle Bob writes: Of all the reminiscences I have seen about the late William F. Buckley, I like this one by New York Daily News columnist Lars-Erik Nelson:
  'Buckley exists to wrap up people's base, greedy, bigoted, low-life, mean, and nasty views into high-faluting language so that they don't have to go around thinking that they are just mean, stupid, and nasty, but instead have a philosophy like Buckley's.'"