We either need more resources or fewer people. Pick one.

By the way, Some Assembly Required has some really WONDERFUL Holiday JOY, some more GREAT News. All I can say is: RUN, RUN! HIDE, HIDE!!

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Day Late, Not a Dollar Short: Goldman Sachs executives are set to collect $111 million in delayed 2007 and 2009 bonuses they earned by bringing down the economy and forcing the taxpayers to bail them out.

Hearts & Mines: After completing work on the Army's Counterinsurgency manual, General David Petraeus went to Afghanistan to win hearts and minds. Which doesn't explain why the US has dramatically stepped up air strikes in Afghanistan and Afghanistan-East and is sending special operations forces on more and more raids.

Asked & Asked: "Why Aren't More Bankers Going To Jail?" The only visible answer seems to be “Because they're bankers. They have money.” Cue Heavenly Choir.

Unanimity: A University of Maryland survey agreed with previous studies in finding that Fox News viewers are “significantly more misinformed” than those who get their news elsewhere. From here, for example.

Sic Transit Gloria: The only superpower in the world has spent over $1 trillion in ten years of unending war in Afghanistan and Iraq. Yet no one cares. Not the politicians, not the citizens. There is no outrage at the cost, no outrage at the dead and wounded soldiers, no outrage at the war crimes, torture, dead civilians and ruined societies left in the rubble. We are oblivious to the implications – fiscally, politically, economically and personally. Don’t touch my benefits.