Anyone who has a passing awareness of 19th Century American & European involvement in the third world will appreciate the irony of this situation.

How much of a misanthrope do you have to be before the thought of your neighbors receiving affordable health care launches you into irrational rage?

I demand the right to make a fool of myself in public by incoherently yelling about things that I fear and don't understand. Normally I would pick a random street corner or a particular tree that looked at me funny, but I what I really want is to fleck my spittle at a Congressman.

Listen, LV, buddy, I know that acting like a moron on the internets is your God-given right as a red-blooded American, so as an apparent "illegal" I won't steal that job from your capable hands. Lawncare, sure. Construction, okay. But by gum we will not be morons in place of native, "legal" Americans. We have standards, too, and that is a line we will not cross.

You're job is safe. Carry on, brave net warrior. A nation's hopes go with you as you battle the horde in your lonely outpost of cyberspace. Until nobody is wrong on the internet, Godspeed.

They're "undocumented" because that is their official status. "Illegal" is merely a colloquial term since being a human being isn't against the law.

Also, kudos to those eschewing convention through exclusive use of the Billy Mays key, because everyone knows that CAPS LOCK is cruise control for cool.

With the loss of jobs, the loss of tourist revenue, the loss of homes, and the loss of vast amounts of wealth, it's nice to see that one thing remains recession proof: our insatiable desire to blame people we don't like for all the bad things that happen to us.

How do you know when a politician is lying?

"This guy has not lost any money, he gets BAQ tax-free housing allowance; the single military memebers are forced to live in the dungeon-like jammed-packed barracks without any free-flowing cash."

Where are you from, 1985?

I always love the PR pieces that these agencies put out. I imagine newspapers do as well, since you just have to paraphrase the press release and not do much real work.

In 50 years, through the Cold War and everything else, the style of these PR pieces hasn't changed, except "Soviets" and "Subversives" have been replaced with "terrorists". The thing that makes this one even better is they've added the "think of the children" angle.

Keep justifying that funding, guys.

"the ECHL, which stands for nothing -- its words, not mine --"

The ECHL used to be the East Coast Hockey League, whom my Norfolk Admirals were affiliated with back in the day. Imagine my surprise when I moved to Vegas after a long stint overseas and found the local hockey team was affiliated with the ECHL.

Apparently, the league officials had to make the acronym mean nothing when they accepted West Coast teams (presumably to stay financially afloat after losing a bunch of teams earlier in the decade).