Up with Government!

Add to the suddenly, so terribly in vogue and seemingly never-ending succession of rallies in Washington, D.C., probably the most pretentious ever conceived: the Government Doesn’t Suck rally.

Seriously.

Mark your calendars: October 30, 2010. If you attend only one gratuitous gathering of pointless solidarity this year, make it this one.

The brainchild of erstwhile—presumably non-sucking—federal employee Steve Ressler, this proposed gathering of unionized drones purports to extol the innumerable virtues of that pinnacle . . . → Read More: Up with Government!

Disaster Cleanup: Full Speed Astern!

After only 58 days of arms-crossed finger pointing, Lord Obama has snapped into action and cleared the way for more skimmers to begin cleaning the oil spill in the Gulf.

Well, almost. When the skimmers began coming out in force, the Coast Guard halted their effort en masse to inspect the barges for the proper complement of life-vests and fire extinguishers. Because, you know, we wouldn’t want to have some sort of safety-related disaster in . . . → Read More: Disaster Cleanup: Full Speed Astern!