PA Legislature: How Dare You Tell Us How To Do Our Job?
I make fun of New Jersey politics on a fairly regular basis, but every once in a while, my legislators in Pennsylvania put on a show as bad, if not worse, than their equivalents in NJ.
Case in point: last year, the legislators voted to raise their own salaries in direct contravention with the [...]
Get On The Porkbusters Bandwagon
Have you heard about the Porkbusters initiative? Glenn Reynolds and N.Z. Bear came up with the simple idea that, in order to help pay for the Katrina cleanup effort, individual bloggers and Netizens of all stripes should ferret out local pork projects and then pressure their Congresscritters to redirect said pork to those who [...]
State Slogans - Diesel Sweeties Style!
Diesel Sweeties presents: 5049 state slogans.
Some of my favorites:
Oklahoma! Like Texas with humility.
Pennsylvania! Confusing road signs! Coal fires! Liberty!
Connecticut! It's not New Jersey!
Minnesota! Fist of the North Star State! (We also invented Post-Its!)
Tennessee! Imagine if Nine-essee went up to Eleven.
Heh. Go forth and find your state [...]
