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 [...]

I haven’t heard anything about Pat Robertson joining Fox News, but after comments like he made yesterday, there’s a solid chance they’ll try to sign him to the standard Nut Job Commentator contract.
On his Christian Broadcasting Network show yesterday, Rev. Pat Robertson said that the nation of Haiti has been devastated by a large earthquake [...]

A big thanks to Rachel who sent me this report from the Miami Herald:
Sarah Palin, who regularly rips the media, is becoming a television pundit at a place where she’s likely to feel at home.
A Fox News executive says the network will shortly announce that the former vice-presidential nominee is signing on as a contributor.
Palin, [...]

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, [...]

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.

Yesterday, I offered up some political bashing. Today, I go after religion.

They make a compelling argument…
From Clusterflock.org.

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 [...]

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 [...]