CAN'T AFFORD a $350 bottle of wine or a $400 haircut of a $10M vacation? You don't need to -- here's how.

I remember those times. For me, they were pretty good years.

ADVANCE COPY of Obama's post-vacation speech. Like Lincoln's Gettysburg speech, it will be given at a "Civil" War battlefield: "Bull" Run.

ONE OF THE SIDE BENEFITS of living in urban areas: you can't evacuate in an emergency. In rural areas, you can but don't usually need to....

WOULDN'T IT BE NICE to have the Space Shuttle back? Russian rocket carrying Space Station supplies fails to reach orbit.

SO ARE WE A PETRI DISH in some mad scientist's lab, and if so, who created the mad scientist?

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Old 'Not Enough' Excuse:

The administration still adheres to the logical fallacy that the toxic medicine cannot be proven to be useless or harmful, because there was supposedly never enough of it given. And the proof is that the worsening patient is still not quite dead.

Read it all.

BACK TO THE FUTURE -- on a bus.

GLOBAL WARMING now causes civil war. What the author of this strange piece seems to forget is that correlation does not imply causation. It's just as likely that civil war causes global warming.

Perhaps if all wars would immediately cease, all the world would be full of rainbows and unicorns, the temperature would be a constant 72 degrees, skies would be cloudless, and it would rain only between 6 am and 10 am on Tuesdays and Saturdays.

FROM THE 'YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING' FILE: Eric Holder Sides With Grizzlies as Well as Black Panthers. In an earlier post I used the phrase 'felony stupid.' This is another example.

RISK FACTOR: Should Access to Social Media Ever Be Limited?

After reading the article my fundamental question is this: How is it that so much of a largely welfare population has access to smart phones such as the Blackberry? Is access to social media a fundamental human right?

IT'S ALL BUSH'S FAULT: Illinois implodes.

RAINBOWS AND UNICORNS as far as the eye can see.

The view from Fantasy land looks pretty good. Unfortunately, it's not in my neighborhood.