Why? seems an appropriate question over the current events in Georgia. This time it really could be about the oil and gas.

The propaganda efforts also seem to be all over the blogs. (See also comments here).

Strange that we have a proposal for a bill of rights which doesn't acknowledge that we already have one.

That idea of buying up the old clunkers to reduce pollution: might not actually work as planned.

It's not exactly a new thing, this apologising for totalitarians.

So there's a drugs raid. On the Mayor's house. The Mayor's two dogs get shot. Policewoman uses a mobile phone to call about a vet. For her own dog, currently at her own home.

And finally, an economist joke.