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 [...]

It’s been a while since I’ve posted my full weekly NFL preview column on here. But it’s the Super Bowl, so I figure I might as well go out of the football season with one last big push. I have some recap stuff to get to once the season is completely over, and I will [...]

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 [...]

This one is pretty self-explanatory:
A Costco in Utah took tomatoes off the shelves during a visit by Sarah Palin, after someone threw tomatoes at the Alaska Governor (and missed) on a stop at the Mall of America. Via Harpers, the Salt Lake Tribune reports:
Rappaport stopped at the Salt Lake City Costco to do some shopping, [...]

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 [...]

Can someone please explain Congressman Barton’s logic/argument/mental illness/delusion to me? Thanks.

He then argued that the warming of the planet is actually a “net benefit” for humans:
CO2 is odorless, colorless, tasteless – it’s not a threat to human health in terms of being exposed to it. We create it as we talk back and forth. So, [...]

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, [...]

When he’s not making copies all weekend long writing Supreme Court appeals, Evan is always thinking about ways to get shout outs on The Great Wahl.
On his way to work this morning, he happened to snap a picture of this truck. He says my eyes are bad (which they might be), but I’m blaming a [...]