I always find too many informative political and economic articles to share, so I’ll select a few and throw them all in to one post of important stuff you should read to get your week started:
1. Maybe we shouldn’t be blaming our leaders for not being able to lead:
A thought-provoking read from Slate.com: Down With [...]

Now that football season is almost over, The Great Wahl is going to be struggling for regular content. I guess that means I will have to revert back to my pre-NFL blogging about politics, economics, and random nonsense (like a hamster on a guitar eating popcorn).
But for now, I’ll start in the political realm. As [...]

Lots of crazy political stories in the news today:
As the Senate gets into its second week of debate on health care, the protesters plan to turn the chamber’s offices and hallways into “government waiting rooms,” pretending to be sick patients waiting for treatment. As the day wears on, their “untreated illnesses” will get worse, and [...]

I don’t know who put this little ad together, but I imagine it’s probably someone not that far from Sarah Palin’s branch on the Republican Crazy Tree.

WTF? At first I thought this one some sort of SNL skit, but it’s not. Ridiculous.

The Great Wahl crowd tends to lean to the left or, at the very least, can’t stand Sarah Palin. I know everyone enjoys a good political bashing — and today, I’ve got a really good one.
Slate recently ran a “write like Sarah Palin” competition in honor of her book, Going Rogue.
They just posted twelve of [...]

Obama is finally good for something after all: helping my golf game.

Thanks to an IRS ruling that golf carts, as long as they are road worthy (side-view mirrors, seat belts, etc.), can qualify for the electric vehicle rebate up to $5500.
The federal credit provides from $4,200 to $5,500 for the purchase of an electric vehicle, [...]

It had been a good week for Republicans in the public perception game.
Obama flew to Europe to try and win Chicago their bid for the 2016 Olympics. That failed. Then SNL ripped him with a cold open that demonstrated that he has accomplished nothing of importance since taking office. Honeymoon over. Things were lookin’ [...]

I don’t own a gun. I’ve never been to a gun show. And I’ve fired a gun probably twice in my life. I’m not exactly the gun-carrying type. And I’ll keep my personal thoughts about the 2nd amendment out of this discussion.
The point of this video is more to show how easy it is for [...]

My favorite amateur political analyst proclaimed vehemently last Summer that she would rather cut off her leg than have Bush (or McCain?) elected (or was it just any Republican? The details are fuzzy). And we aren’t just talking below the knee. She’d cut all the way up the thigh. But she’s a Kennedy, probably a [...]

Living in the Kohler-Sheboygan megalopolis, one doesn’t have many options for purchasing goods and services. The best book store in town is a tiny Waldenbooks, which is apparently just the small town brand of Borders.
Anyway, as I was browsing through the dozen or so shelves of books today, I stumbled across this rather odd categorization.
I [...]