My perfectly tacky boot planter

The other people in my house think this is horrid but I fell in love with it at the garden store and even managed to get a slight discount on it.

Pack yer bags, it’s time to move

Here’s a secession move in the works:
The owner of a tiny island in off Scotland declared its independence from the United Kingdom on Saturday, saying he wanted the territory, population one, to be a crown dependency like the Channel Islands.
An island free of income tax, sales tax, and government tyrants? Sign me up already!
 

Ditch the charade altogether

Could Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) be Obama’s running mate? He will certainly consider it.
Hagel’s vocal criticism of the Bush administration since the 2003 invasion of Iraq has touched off speculation that if Obama were to pick a Republican running mate, it might be Hagel. Hagel said in an interview with The Associated Press that [...]

My first cavity search

via No State

What I’m reading right now

I like to read things that both support and challenge my viewpoints and inclinations. Right now I’m reading The Politics of Obedience:The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude by Étienne de La Boétie and A Republic, Not an Empire by Patrick Buchanan. (See, just by reading Buchanan I am challenging myself.)
Discourse is so far a [...]