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Try new Cockroach of the Sea brand canned lobster pieces. Free emu oil moisturizer with every third can.

I thought I would drive a little slower to save gas. So, I drove about five miles per hour under the limit. Really, not much. But I was just about the slowest car on the road. I’ve never seen so many in such a rush to go nowhere. I guess high gas prices just haven’t hit hard enough yet.

According to them, “speculator” is this year’s bad word. Because of evil speculators gas prices are high. Because of evil speculators food prices are high. These losers probably have never made a single dollar in their lives that wasn’t stolen from others through taxation. And now they’re experts on financial markets. Would have been nice if they had given a crap about speculators in real estate. Nope, couldn’t see that one coming.

Well, listen up, losers, if you think you can rein in commodity prices over the long term by outlawing speculation, you’re in for a rude awakening. Markets will move offshore. Supplies will decrease as liquidity decreases and market uncertainty grows. And prices will spiral ever higher.

If you were fit for real jobs, you wouldn’t be in politics. Have you heard of supply and demand?

Demand for commodities is high and supply is low. This is the primary driver behind high commodity prices. The other, for Americans, is the weak dollar.

Instead of picking speculators as your scapegoat, you could allow more drilling for oil and encourage conservation and alternatives, which, after several years, would increase supply and reduce demand. To cool prices for agricultural commodities, you could repeal your ridiculous law to pay farmers $30 billion to keep fields fallow and end your moronic, 100%-pure pork lovefest with corn-based ethanol. To end the dollar’s decline, you could eliminate the budget deficit by cutting pork across the board.

Unfortunately, you spineless cowards lack the fortitude to do anything remotely constructive. So, it’s understandable that you would rather just have a convenient scapegoat. But all you’re doing at the end of the day is just screwing the country further. And I believe you know it.

Ball-less, grandstanding leeches.

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Zimbabwe’s thug tyrant president, the 84-year-old Robert Mugabe, is pulling out all the stops to maintain his grip on power.

Remember this name: Tendai Biti. He is secretary general of the opposition party, Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). He is now a political prisoner. He was arrested upon his return to Zimbabwe from South Africa. He knew that he would be arrested upon his return. And here is what he said, “I am prepared to meet whatever will come my way in this long and difficult, but noble road to Zimbabwe’s democracy.” He is now charged with treason and could face execution if convicted.

Despite having himself been detained three times in the past week, MDC presidential candidate Morgan Tsvangirai continues to campaign for the June 27 run-off election against Mugabe.

Mugabe will do whatever he can to fix the election, including torture, murder, and disgusting crimes against humanity. If he lives long enough, it’s just a matter of time until Mugabe is put on trial for these crimes by the international community. I think that would be too kind a fate for him.

May the people of Zimbabwe have the strength and courage to throw Mugabe into the gutter where he belongs.

You can contact the Zimbabwe embassy to the United States here and let them know what you think of Mugabe.

Lehman increasingly has this corpse stink about it. Bear Stearns, here we come again.

I’m out of control. Crazy. Wild. I ate a tomato last night. As far as I can tell, I’m still alive. Unless this is all some type of elaborate holographic simulation. What say you now, tomatophobes?

I ate Roma tomatoes just last week. And I’d do it again but they’ve been removed from the store. Tomatophobia is gripping the nation.

Ben falls into one of two categories. Either he had no idea what he was signing on to and is a fool for agreeing to the job. Or he had a good idea of what he was getting himself into and is a fool for having the irrational level of self-confidence to believe he was up to it.

In any event, the die was cast long before he stepped to the lectern. If there is decency in the world, history will lay at the feet of his predecessor the lion’s share of the blame.

Bicycles are wonderful transportation vehicles. They save energy, eliminate emissions, and provide physical exercise at the same time. I would support banning most passenger motor vehicles from our roadways and allowing bicycles to become the primary means of individual transportation.

That being said, as things stand now, with motor vehicles dominating the roadways, I don’t think bicycles have any place on them. It’s a recipe for disaster and as ridiculous as the picture above.

The demise of the urban assault vehicle.