"Glimmer" is the name I filed this under. The term, "glimmer" is often tagged onto "of hope". Well, get over that cliche right now, 'cause it ain't happening. For example...

A new reason to keep the heck out of Tennessee. Stop me if you've heard this one: A man walks into a bar...and blows everyone in it away! How flat can a learning curve get?

Or, Paul Krugman's latest editorial. Hard to believe that humans aren't actually descended from ostriches.

And, here in my home town, Vancouver, drivers, upset that 1 out of 22 traffic lanes has finally been turned over to people on bicycles, write to their local paper to vent their frustration. Thanks for sharing, folks.

What is it with human beings? And, of course, how the hell did we wind up in charge? (And if you're dumb enough to reply, "Well, it's god's will," so help me, I'm gonna come to your house and beat you to mush.)

Where's Voltaire (or Mark Twain, or Kurt Vonnegut, or Rabelais) when we really need him? (O.K., dead, that's where, but...)