Despite his lackluster major media performance, George Bush is still the subject of nearly 100% of Volkswagen bumper stickers and represents the butts of more than 60% of the jokes told by terrible stand-up comedians....

According to a climatologist at Austria's Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics, Europe's Alpine region is going through its warmest period in 1,300 years. John Bolton has decided to leave his position as the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. before he is removed. Lake Travis is at a 42-year low for the month of December. It sounds like Illinois Senator Barack Obama likes New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's chances in the 2008 presidential......

According to the Dallas Voice (by way of Burnt Orange), Austinite Edward Mokrzy - a gay Republican formerly living in Dallas - was promised support by the Republican Party in the upcoming primaries for the House of Representatives. Oddly enough, the National Republican Congressional Committee reneged on its pledge to cover his filing costs after Mokrzy announced his intention to run as an openly gay candidate and on a "government reform" platform. Color us......