Mulligan Stew

A hash of stuff I found or received over the past couple of days.

1. Elections are coming! Yeah so the turkey and Santa will get here first, BUT Elections are coming! A couple of enterprising students have created 2008 Central to track the Presidential elections. Meanwhile Voter49 has finally surfaced as RP Voters with a revamped mission.

2. Earmark Watch is the place to go in checking out, or reporting on, earmarks. Love 'em or hate 'em, they exist and they cost money.

3. Want to know how business is conducted at Gitmo? Get your Standard Operating Procedures right here. This should curl some toes.

4. Want some quick info about the demographics of various zip codes? Zip Skinny is the place to go. They include a link to the underlying Census data so you can do your own research.

5. Where do you fit on the continuum of response to possible economic collapse? Kathy McMahon can help you find out and help explain why.

6. And finally, from World Net Daily a truly preposterous post about abiotic oil that manages to get its dates wrong, let along flog a discredited notion. The Drummers had fun with that one. Oh and just so we are clear, the estimated upper end of the reserves amounts to about 1 year of oil usage in the USA. Context is a good thing.