Starry Night is a simple pretty game where you bounce stars off a bubble trying to light other stars.

I especially like the title of this article Inventing The Clinton Recession about Bush’s folks rewriting history.

The CEA’s Economic Report of the President, released Feb. 9, unilaterally changed the start date of the last recession to benefit Bush’s reelection bid. Instead of using the accepted start date of March, 2001, the CEA announced that the recession really started in the fourth quarter of 2000 — a shift that would make it much more credible for the Bush Administration to term it the “Clinton Recession.” In a subsequent press conference, Mankiw said that the CEA had looked at the available data and “made the call.”

Come up with all the stats you want, jank, but “or almost 75 years, the start and end dates of recessions have been set by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a private nonpartisan research group based in Cambridge, Mass.“

To be fair, even if the latest recession did begin after Bush took office in January, 2001, no one can say he caused it.

This would be a perfect opportunity for the Bush administration to educate the public instead of trying to stretch the wool.

Ralph, you do a great job fighting The Man. But whenever you run for president you just stir up the hippies and hand the government to the Republicans.

Sit this one out buddy. I know you like to see your name up there, but take one for the team.

Here’s an opensource effort to recreate the classic PC game StarCon 2. I used to love this game. I will have to find out if time treated it kindly.

After several years of pestering from my sweet husband, I gave in and allowed the purchase of an electric blanket. Terminally cold hands and feet won over my paranoid fear of going up in flames and this last winter, I’ll admit that I’ve basked in the toasty goodness like a human baked potato.

But this new study has me worried all over again.

The extremists are trying to make it a censorship deal, and my first guess was that it’s just a money deal. The Bush administration has cut the funding for close captioning on several TV shows.

Officials at the department now say, however, that they are acting on the “intent of Congress” to limit captioning to “educational and informational” programming.

“We in the Department of Education had external experts come in and help us determine the parameters for what would be appropriate,” said Troy Justesen, deputy secretary for special education and rehabilitative services.

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The blocking of the 200 programs was not a cost-cutting measure, Justesen added.

“We haven’t changed the amount of money on closed captioning and have no plans to make a change,” he said.

Apparently, deaf people will have to pay extra if they want to be entertained like the rest of us. This is one of those ‘give-a-ways’ that I think the government absolutely should shoulder. How can we as a nation deny deaf people the right to laugh at “The Simpsons”?