aaryn belfer.

But I thought that the excessive rise in gas prices was because of supply/demand coupled with the skyrocketing cost of crude oil at $100 a barrel, AND not for oil industry profit?

aherm. Excuse me while I go try to stop my eyes from rolling around in their sockets because I was doing a lot of that while trying to say the above out loud. I also couldn’t say it with a straight face.

Posted by Tootsie Farklepants on 1 February 2008 @ 10am

ack! There is nothing less appetizing or appealing that front page news. Stick with the arts section.

Posted by wenderina on 1 February 2008 @ 11am

Sigh.

Also, have Ruby call me. I know some very satisfying and alliterative swearing combinations. Oh the places I could take her.

Posted by Mrs. G. on 1 February 2008 @ 12pm

Holy Shit.

I hope more voters are connecting the dots.

Posted by Sandy Feet on 1 February 2008 @ 2pm

Oh, Aaryn, I did read that article about using the women with Down’s Syndrome as suicide homicide bombers. After I stopped crying (everything is making me cry today, but there’s a valid one right there), I thought to myself that there is a very special place in hell for the sub-humans who thought that one up.

Posted by Cheri on 1 February 2008 @ 4pm

BTW, “suicide” up there was supposed to have a line through it. I either did the HTML incorrectly or it doesn’t work in Wordpress like Blogger.

Posted by Cheri on 1 February 2008 @ 4pm

Have you seen how CNN is spinning the oil profits story? “Oh they NEED those profits because they need to refine and drill more… maybe even in the Arctic which is really expensive. This has nothing to do with the costs at the pump!” Yeah. Right.

Notice… they’re not pushing research on alternative energy. Also… I just saw an article that the oil companies are sponsoring a “Global Warming is a Lie” conference. Sorry… I can’t remember the details.

And these Mother F****** who started this war have so much blood on their hands. I’m constantly enraged about it. (Don’t let Ruby see this comment.)

I’m gonna go live in a van down by the river.

Kim

Posted by Kim on 1 February 2008 @ 10pm

Yes — felt the same. Sorta hit in the gut with a commentary on the bombing on NPR this morning. It appears now that those two women were indeed mentally handicapped and the bombs ignited by remote cell. So the murderous cowards who killed school children (lots of ‘em) and two mentally disabled women were safely out of range.

The insanity of war.

Strong opinion ahead: And anyone who thinks that corporate ideological and financial lust isn’t pretty much running the planet lives on a different one.

Posted by Minnesota Matron on 2 February 2008 @ 12pm

That was the first thing I saw when I opened our copy this am. Made me very sad to the point of tears. The story on the Vick dogs pushed me over the edge.

Posted by Martha on 2 February 2008 @ 8pm