With all the anxiety about the costs of heating your home or filling your gas tank, I think I’ve found the tool people can utilize to deal with the potential of rising home heating costs:

The Snuggie. Warning, video starts upon clicking.

I wonder if the benevolent Al Gore has invested in this company, since his utopia of green energy means higher prices for all.

A charismatic candidate wanting to instill his plan and desires to stamp out dissenters who stand in his way.

The candidate repeats the mantra, “fighting for the middle class” as his main campaign issue.

Dissenters or even someone who questions the candidate have secret police set upon them to supress dissent.

For the dissenters, freedom of expression against the candidate is seen as verboten and doctrines of what can be deemed free speech are introduced.

Gosh, it’s hard to tell the difference between the Soviets or the Obama campaign these days.

The Communist regime considered dissent in the Soviet Union a repudiation of the proletarian struggle and a violation of Marxism-Leninism, and thus a threat to its authority. The proletariat was seen as selflessly striving for progress in the building of socialism, whereas the bourgeoisie was seen as selfishly fighting to maintain the status quo. According to Marxist ideology, class struggle was the engine of change in all social development. Vladimir Lenin’s ideological contribution was to make the party itself the exclusive “vanguard of the proletariat” and thus the final arbiter of what was proletarian or bourgeois. The secret police was enlisted to enforce the party’s ideology and to suppress dissent.

Original link to the Soviet Archives found at SondraK.

Is it not odd for the the self-appointed sex expert who is gay to be leading the charge for political intimidation for the 2008 election? I mean, everyone has to be tolerant of what Mr. Savage engages in behind closed doors…or in public, but damn if that means *he* needs to be tolerant.

That seems to be the way these days. Everyone else needs to keep their mouth shut, all the while one side gets to rant and rave. Why is that?

The death of common sense is rapidly approaching, or has already happened depending on your view.