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Via A Blog Around the Clock:

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now. —Denis Waitley

So, I guess you’re saying my strategy of regretting the past, dreading the future, and being paralyzed in the present isn’t the best option? If only you had told me this in the past!

Cartoonist Clay Bennett says libertarians make bad lifeguards. Click the image to see the full cartoon.

In other cartoons, he examines the Republican sympathy for Bluto and asks, “Do you still want a government that’s run like a business?“

If you don’t have much time to read for pleasure, you should check out Six Word Stories. (Warning: some strong language.)

It all began when someone bet Ernest Hemingway he couldn’t tell a complete story in just six words. Hemingway won the bet, with this:

For sale: baby shoes, never used.

Lots of astonishing stories at the site.

The web comic Medium Large suggests you should be careful when it comes to voting your religion.

Click the image to see the whole cartoon.

I think this goes on all the time inside the book trade, but it’s odd when Amazon offers consumers a book called Untitled on Obama Administration.

Bob Woodward, one of the reporters who dug out the story of Watergate, is a perennial author of bestselling insider-y tales from the White House. Clearly, he’s got a contract to deliver one of those books in September, about the Obama Administration.

We don’t know what’s going to be in the book, but Woodward’s always good for a couple juicy headlines. We don’t know who he’s talked to or what he’s going to say, but Amazon knows there are plenty of folks waiting to get in line to wait for Woodward’s take on the new guy.

Come September, the words on everyone’s lips will be, “Have you read Untitled on Obama Administration?”

I’m thinking blockbuster. I’m thinking Pulitzer Prize.

I’m thinking “Six Crises, and Counting”.

The new job numbers are out. Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele says:

No amount of spin will resolve the fact that the President’s policies have been a colossal failure when it comes to creating jobs.

Here, from Steve Benen, is the latest graph, with Bush in Red and Obama in blue:

Listen to Michael Steele, people! The Republicans know all about colossal failure.