In a cost-cutting move, the New York Times will be reducing the width of its pages to 12 inches from 13.5 inches. Rumor has it that this is only the first in a planned series of cost-reducing and revenue-enhancing steps the paper plans to take. Other rumored changes include:

• Stock employee break room fridge with generic tofu insted of the expensive name-brand stuff
• Run weekly positive article about the mob to reduce protection money expenses.
• Stop using ink-intensive word “insurgents”, switch to more economical “dudes”.
• Papers will be delivered at no cost by Jehovah’s Witnesses, since they’re stopping by your house anyway.
• More front page naked PeTA protester stories.
• Reporters will now be paid with bags of Purina Journalist Chow.
• Online edition to sell animated “Cheap Viagra! – Click Now!” ads.
• Subtle product placement in headlines, like “Iraq War Miserable Failure, Unlike Pepsi in Latest Taste Test”.
• Start a blog – those things are a gold mine!
• Train handicapped employees’ helper-monkeys to steal office supplies from the Wall Street Journal.
• Ditto for the ones on the typewriters randomly cranking out the editorials.
• Board of Directors must light cigars with 50’s instead of 100’s.
• Study Master Pimp revenue collection techniques for use on paper boys who skim.
• Daily change sweeps of the Times Building lobby couch cushions

Or they could do the sensible thing and just sell the damn rag to Murdoch.

John Hawkins surveyed right wing bloggers on their most liked and least liked Presidential choices. Fred Thompson is most liked and Ron Paul is least liked of course, but how the rest order in between is pretty interesting. Here’s Hawkins’s analysis of the results.

It’s being reported how YearlyKos is mainly white males — which I just always assumed. I’m not a racist — some of my best friends are white — but I have noticed a propensity for condescension among white people, especially liberal white people. For them it’s practically an art form. And, of course, Daily Kos is dripping with condescension. Daily Kos has a few token minorities (Kos himself is half Latino), but it’s quite obviously a group of white people trying to figure out what’s better for their lessers. Whenever I read Daily Kos, the first thing that comes to mind is, “White people are crazy!”

August is always the slowest month for politics, but that no excuse not to blog. I’m thinking, though, we may need to make up some political issues to respond to so we can pass the time.
Here’s a couple ideas:
* The people at Daily Kos are now actively supporting Iraqi insurgents trying to kill American. They still consider this supporting our troops since Iraqi insurgents provide negative reinforcement for behavior they disagree with (namely, defense of America and its interests).
* Democrats in Congress have become so powerless that now even their own bodies aren’t listen to their commands and thus the Democrats are running around the Capitol like chickens with their heads cut off.
* John Edwards lectured middle class Americans while wearing a pink, frilly dress and wearing over a million dollars in jewelry. His supporters are complaining how the following coverage focused on his appearance and not his message.
* Hillary Clinton was forced to take a break from campaigning for three days due to an injury sustained when she was accidentally splashed with holy water.
* Barack Obama says he will never ever use the military against North Korea no matter what and threatens to invade South Korea if they don’t crack down on the consumption of dogs.
* New botched terrorist attack ended when terrorists accidentally drive a car into a phone poll and then set selves on fire. Luckily for them, a third terrorist videotaped the incident and won $10,000 from America’s Funniest Home Videos as funding for their next attempt.
Any ideas for other made up stuff I can respond to?

With President Bush’s approval rating, he should be a lame duck right now, yet he keep having successes against the Democratic Congress. Even though the nutroots were all freaking out about a bill giving him expanding wiretapping powers for the War on Terror, the Democrats still caved and gave Bush what he wants.
You see, while Bush currently has a 24% approval rating on Iraq, the Congress has 3%. I didn’t even think it was possible to do so bad as to get only 3% approval. So while President Bush may be a lame duck, the Democrats in Congress are a crippled goose sitting at the bank of the pond that Bush can go peck the crap out of whenever he feels like it.
We have ourselves a mighty government.

Did you know there was a Republican debate Sunday Morning?
Little Tip: A large number of Republican primary voters tend to be busy on Sunday mornings.