"...that is the height of irresponsibility."

That's a direct quote from our new president.  Unfortunately, he wasn't talking about the new "stimulus" package.  Somehow, the irony of someone who has rammed a pork-bloated bill through congress and senate that makes Ron Reagan's defense spending look miserly preaching about Wall Street executives giving themselves a few billion in bonuses while eating $100 steaks is lost on the press and pretty much everyone else.

I wonder if I'm going to be able to escape from this alternative universe or if I should just grow a goatee.

UPDATE: At least someone else gets it.

Gun Buyback Fail

The Suffolk police had an anonymous buy-back program that quickly ran out of gift certificates to give away for the "illegal" guns people were handing over. Of course the police kept the guns anyway and then asked people for their IDs. That's all sorts of trustworthy right there.

The program gets a fail, the article on newsday is full of all sorts of win though, they included a very snarky poll asking what the suffolk police can pony up since they ran out of gift cards. My vote was for "Leave the gun, take the cannolis"

Money quote from the article:

"How is that anonymous?" she asked. "Anonymous is not 'Give us your name and number and in two weeks you'll get your gift card.' "

I'll Have That With Extra Lead

This is one of the best lines I've read in a while. Instapundit links to this story about Pizza Hut (ugh) coming under fire for suspending a delivery driver in Iowa for defending himself with a handgun against a robbery attempt. Insty's comment on Pizza Hut's HR VP is classic.

Uh huh. Good thing he didn't listen or he might be being carried by six instead of subjected to mealy-mouthed HR flackery from one.

Indeed!