I don’t personally like golf, I’ll be honest.

I find it a waste of time, money, water, land, and resources better placed elsewhere. I find that business done on a golf course is a shortcut around the proper and ethical ways of getting things gone.

Besides, I’d rather shoot a couple racks of pool for the price of a couple rounds of beer than spent half a day chasing a ball whilst whacking it with a crooked stick.

Bill Maher takes the President to task for suddenly picking up the game. He can’t even get enough Republican to say he’s an American citizen to fill a Volkswagen Beetle. What possible pipe dream does he have of cajoling them on the links instead of in the Capitol Building?

Frankly, one of the best damn pieces of journalism I’ve heard or read in awhile.

In short, a look at what’s wrong with our prison system through the view of how far the California penal system has fallen.

Honestly, give it a listen.

Finally, Nancy Pelosi grows a spine and calls out the healthers.

You know, these bastards called anyone against the Iraq War a traitor for not falling in line behind Bush and blindly going to war without at least having a healthy debate as to why we were spending lives and trillions of dollars.

Now? We are looking to improve the lives of tens of millions of Americans and spend trillions to do so and you’d think they’d follow their own meme and just either get in line or out of the way, right? No, they skipped that part. They even skipped the debate part too. They just don’t want to change anything at all.

Obviously they don’t ALL work for the insurance industry. Obviously they are getting just as screwed over as the rest of us.

So what is it? What brings then armed to silence discussion and debate? What causes them to not just interrupt, but impede the course of democracy?

Simple. We have a black President who is using federal dollars to stop corporations from aiding in the deaths of American citizens by weighing human life against profit margins and stock values.

Guess which part of that appeals to the racist core of the GOP?

Play this.

It is bizarrely interesting and a quick look into the mind of a pirate. I found myself going more aggressive as I played it just to rack up a quick ransom so I wouldn’t get either a mutiny or a military raid.

This is a nice story on how shedding some religious and cultural taboos is saving lives in Iraq.

Oliver explains the modern GOP:

If you’ve ever taken the time to watch congressional activity on C-SPAN, particularly in the House, you see this a lot. There are people, Democrats, talking about important things of serious significance. I don’t even necessarily agree with these people all the time, but there’s no disputing the fact that they’re talking about an issue, and then a conservative Republican will get his or her turn at the microphone and begin a conversation about how Barack Obama has enlisted a legion of robots to drain us of our blood. They say these things, and then thanks to the rules of decorum in congress the other side can’t bust out laughing or scream “what the fuck”. They just have to go back to what they were discussing. On earth.

Now I love napping, but this study sheds a little light on who actually is napping. I’m not sure I needed to know all that, but there ya go.

There are worse things than angry conservathugs threatening to take the pill away from American women. This story on the tragedy caused by sexism, religion, and poverty is a real crime; one this world needs to fix.

I’ve had this story lying around in a tab for months. It concerns the value of working with your hands and is a pretty interesting read if you’ve got the time.