Eight Years to the Day after Mission Accomplished
Somehow President Barack Hussein Obama managed to: (1) make an announcement we can believe, and (2) did it without benefit of an aircraft carrier as a stage with (3) US service personnel as...
View ArticleTake Five (Shining City on a Hill edition)
ONE: Fox News Announces Appalachian Trail Correspondent! Thinking (mistakenly) that putting Sarah Palin and Donald Trump on its payroll was insufficiently ridiculous, Fox News has now tapped disgraced...
View ArticleJust Sayin’ Is All… #1
I’m still reeling over Fox News’ recent onslaught on the new Muppet movie. Knowing that Fox News is a propaganda tool for the RW (‘tool’ invariably being the correct word usage when referring to anyone...
View ArticleTake Five (Uh… Yeah edition)
ONE: Gaffe Riot As his campaign careens toward Iowa, Rick Perry continues to astound audiences with his comprehensive knowledge of nothing and his uncanny inability to open his mouth without saying...
View ArticleTake Five (Shoes for the Dead edition)
ONE: “Ask the milkman, white with foam…” Peter Bergman of Firesign Theatre and Radio Free Oz fame died two weeks ago. In his absence, this mortal coil has already grown a touch darker and a touch...
View ArticleDear Alleged News Reporter/Journalist
As I read the various articles, blogs, and political message boards discussing the anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, I can’t help but be reminded of the brave men and women of the mainstream media,...
View ArticleHooking Up the Wrong Way
Have Republicans forgotten they were elected to govern? Not when it comes to money and power. Money, especially. It’s being used in South Carolina to raise support for Lindsay Graham, up for reelection...
View ArticleStormy Monday, 10/28/13
Will HHS Secretary Sebelius fall on her sword? Will Websitegate force Barack Obama from office? Will Republicans ever shut their damn mouths and concentrate, for once, on doing something positive,...
View ArticleStormy Monday, 1/6/14
Will the 1.3 million people stripped of unemployment benefits by Republican callousness get them restored this month? Doubtful, but Congressional Democrats are trying to make it happen, while the...
View ArticleStormy Monday, 6/23/14
In a primary season that has already seen the odious Eric Cantor kicked to the curb by voters for not being quite odious enough, it’s probably smart to take nothing for granted. Charlie Rangel...
View ArticleStormy Monday, 6/30/14
The Supreme Court might get the week off to a terrible start with a bad decision in Harris v. Quinn, which could hobble the right of public sector unions to act as sole representatives of their...
View ArticleStormy Monday, 7/7/14
The Republican National Committee unveiled a new fundraising gimmick over the weekend, and this week’s sales figures might provide a handy gauge for just how far gone Republicans currently are. The RNC...
View ArticleStormy Monday, 8/11/14
Hostilities intensified over the weekend as assorted anti-American theocrats, terrorists and heavily armed extremists – Republicans, in other words – ratcheted up their rhetoric against President...
View ArticleStormy Monday, 8/18/14
At the behest of Attorney General Eric Holder, the body of Michael Brown will be autopsied for a third time this week as federal and state investigations into his fatal shooting by police officer...
View ArticleTake Five (Well, Shut My Mouth edition)
ONE: Vinny Laughs Last With NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams and his career hanging by a thread, it’s been fascinating to contemplate his attempts at apology and explanation for his Iraq tall...
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