Jackson Hole Underground

Looking at the above picture, I am reminded of a recent joke by Stephen Colbert that bears repeating:

“Dick Cheney’s fondest pipe dream is driving a bulldozer into The New York Times while drinking crude oil from Keith Olbermann’s skull.”

After the broadcast of the PBS Frontline episode “Cheney’s Law” the other night, I’m surprised Cheney hasn’t ordered an air strike on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood or had Big Bird rendered to Guantánamo.

The program, which can be viewed for free online, chronicles the Machiavellian maneuverings of Diabolical Dick as he circumvents Congress and the Constitution on matters such as torture and spying on U.S. citizens.

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As Idaho Sen. Larry Craig continues to humiliate himself and his holier-than-thou Republican colleagues, a friend passed along this amusing music video from the folks at National Banana.

The clay-mation short is in the spirit of the “This Land” parody of John Kerry and George W. Bush that was such a hit for JibJab before the 2004 election.

Craig is the least believable defendant since O.J. In his interview with NBC’s Matt Lauer last night, he claimed to have “never used the Internet.” Think Progress cites at least six instances of the senator’s experience with the Web.

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About the only thing that might stop the Colorado Rockies at this point is the eight-day layoff before the World Series.

By completing its sweep of Arizona last night, Colorado has won ten straight and 21 of its last 22 — all of them essentially must-win games. We have never seen such a streak of torrid baseball in our lifetimes. Not since the 1936 New York Giants has a team played so spectacularly down the stretch.

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Had a few spindly visitors drop by lately? Noticed all the backlit web strands floating in the sky around Snow King?

It’s a phenomenon called “ballooning spiders,” and apparently it’s how the newly hatched insects escape before one of their siblings eats them.

Conditions have been particularly ripe this fall for the arachnids’ aerial assault.

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(All photos © 2007 David Stubbs Photography)

The Bureau of Reclamation has scaled back the release of water from Jackson Lake Dam so that the Snake River is flowing at its normally low level for this time of year.

For more than six weeks, a magnificent stream was turned into a 90-mile-long irrigation ditch. An inquisitive person might ask, Where did all the water go?

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