Market for Water

In less than 6 months, the dub and his crew have ordered the trance machine into full-throttle-friggin-freakout mode. And to think, 3 1/2 years to go. We've got hordes of impressionable minds thinking that Ronald McDonald really cares about them. It just gets better and better in the land of looney-toons. Here are just a few examples of what we've seen thus far:

Environment Will Not Recover

Papal Hopeful is a former Hitler Youth

Exploding Toads Puzzle German Scientists

Toads are exploding and the environment is done thinking about whether or not it should take care of us. The girds of doom have been set forth. This is real-life 'lord of the rings' stuff that's going down -- or not.

Here's an interesting argument that I've been hearing lately:

The Senate can use the power of the fillibuster to carry out endless debates that could effectively block an up or down vote for judicial nominees..

The fillibuster is detrimental to the checks and balances of congress (simply because it allows the debate, instead of a rush to vote for a nominee that will hold a position of vast importance, such as that of the supreme court).

Many republicans, like Mr. Frist, and Mr. Delay, want to -- you guessed it -- change the rules.

They go so far as to say interesting things like "those who support the fillibuster are against people of faith", on a Sunday afternoon, broadcast live through your circus theatre box.
Therefore, anyone who supports the fillibuster is not only against people of faith, but against the moral good of the country (if I could reasonably make that inference).
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I wonder what is better for the "moral good", blocking the debate, or allowing the debate? Getting rid of the fillibuster is much like saying just be quiet and let us vote. Could be just me, but it seems like just another step towards justice gone awry.

So the environment gets worse -- what do some choose to do? They choose to do this. It would appear that many of us accept our inevitable plunge into the lowest tier of Dante's inferno. So maybe we should all be eating double whoppers with cheese and marketing our 'purified' tap-water.

While you're thinking about how one might go about selling tap-water, consider this: walking through wallgreens a couple weeks ago, I notice that the store -- Wallgreens -- has its own brand of water... Wallgreens. Brand. Water. Think about it. Brace yourselves.