BACK BY UNPOPULAR DEMAND

The blog is back. Explaining why doesn't work. Anyway, who cares why people such as I do what we do?

This is not the first time Thinker has kicked the soil off the casket and climbed out.

Thoughts While Tying My Shoes

The party's over. Those brilliant Republicans are about to offer the voters a candidate who wanted to be John Kerry's running mate just four years ago. McCain threatened to join the other party several times. He often votes against his party's stated position. George Washington warned against political parties and believed them to be harmful to the republic. They might be okay for a democracy, but who wants to live in one of those?

Overheard Upstairs At Frenchy's

"Wouldn't it be something if the recession makes folks eat less and less, so that they get skinny and live so long that they drain the Social Security funds so much that the recession shifts into a depression? Give me another "on the rocks."

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Outrage Department

The Chinese government admits it held an American POW from the time he was a teenager in the Korean War. The man died and was buried in China.

Overheard at Slippery Slope Saloon

"I saw a picture of Fidel, and he sure didn't look dead. Those rumors were false. The man is eternal, for the ages. He lived through dozens of CIA and Mafia hit tries. I'm not going to worry about that guy."