For your political footwear needs this Fall season:

G.W. & Crew - Flip Flop

The Alexander Tyler quote on the last page knocks me out:

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship.

The average age of the world’s great civilizations has been two hundred years.

These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage.

Apparently this is taken from Tyler’s 1778 work, The Cycle of Democracy.

This is turning into a bonafide issue. Check out this Salon article, rehosted by cryptome.org:

Bush’s mystery bulge

This is great news:

Boing Boing: INDUCE Act killed for now! BOO-YAH!

I like to imagine the RIAA lawyers’ heads exploding, a la Scanners.

Here’s an entertaining read, to whet your appetite for Halloween:

Is this a ghost?

I’m not cynical enough to think this kind of thing is impossible, but I need more proof than something so Photoshoppable.