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For Those About to Lie...
...we salute you. I have to admit, my reality-challenged (or reality-challenging) colleagues on the lower east side of Blogostan. It was a neat trick in grabbing the reins of the national discourse....
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House Passes "Pederast Reform Act of 2006."
Washington, DC --- In a typical election year gambit, the GOP-led House of Representatives today passed in a hard line party vote (230-204) the "Pederast Reform and Congressional Online Protection Act...
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Pray the Gay Away: Mark Foley's Tale of Redemption.
Ex-congressman Mark Foley's favorite card game was Old Maid. Don't ask me why but it nonetheless seems an appropriate, if disturbing, first choice for an unmarried old queen like Foley. It would've...
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The 25 Looniest Legislators
Recently someone got linked on Buzzflash with a list entitled something like "100 Stupidest People in Congress" or something like that (try variations, because that one turns up nothing on Google)....
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What Do You Do When the Limousine Stops?
"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely." - Lord Acton. Just as, until 2001, Bill Clinton was virtually the only president the internet had known since it had been opened to the...
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Snakes on a Campaign: Another Open Letter to Ned Lamont
Well, here we are again, Ned. The last time I'd addressed you directly, July 9th, you were lagging behind Lieberman in the polls. And, unfortunately, after your stunning upset primary win, you've come...
View ArticleFor What Will You Be Giving Thanks on Thanksgiving?
Let me take a wild guess. Now that political coroners in the MSM and blogosphere are conducting the electoral autopsies on dozens of Republican carcasses, I think the one finding that we'll hear on tv...
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No Longer the Party of Lincoln?
Out of the three dozen or so Republicans who'd lost their seats in last Tuesday's midterm elections, by far the one most lamented in Left Blogostan is Rhode Island Senator Lincoln Chafee. Chafee said...
View ArticleJerry Falwell (1933-2007)
I had a student ask me, "Could the savior you believe in save Osama bin Laden?" Of course, we know the blood of Jesus Christ can save him, and then he must be executed. - The Reverend Jerry Falwell No...
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Brainless (with snark poll)
(Crossposted at Brilliant at Breakfast.) If the Bush administration had an official narrator, it would have to be Jerry Reed. Can’t you just imagine hearing Reed’s rich baritone drawl accompanying a...
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Democrats Afraid of Democracy? (with poll)
On the 13th, the day Karl Rove had announced his resignation as Chief White House Strategist, Ron Fournier from the AP had written a deeply disturbing article that, as far as I can see, has gotten no...
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Apology to my Grandchildren
To you, Gavin, and my still-unborn grandchild, I am sorry that I have failed you. I have failed you for not, as the wise philosopher once advised, leaving the world a better place than I had found it....
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Six Years and 6000 Miles From 9/11
(Crossposted at Welcome to Pottersville, Brilliant at Breakfast and Out of Iraq Bloggers Caucus.) Brit Hume checks his talking points emailed from Karl Rove before his Fox News show airs. On this, the...
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5700 Carrots on a Stick
(Crossposted at Welcome to Pottersville, B@B and Out of Iraq Blogger's Caucus.) That’s about what I’d call Bush’s speech tonight. What kills me is how Bush is completely blowing off the healthy...
View ArticleWhich Candidate's Views Do Yours Most Resemble?
Typically, my views resemble that of Dennis Kucinich's (57) moreso than anyone else. The candidate who shares my views the least? Just as typically, John "Incomiiiiiiing!" McCain (3). So at least I...
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Eat Your Kucinich. He’s Good for You.
Call Congressman Dennis Kucinich what you will: Hobbit. Keebler Elf. Leprechaun. Tinfoil-hatted flying saucer enthusiast. Fringe candidate. One thing that you can’t call him is Dennis the Menace. And...
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Markos and Maher: The M&M Boys
That would be Markos Moulitsas and Bill Maher, who both made steaming piles out of themselves on last Friday’s Real Time because they both sincerely believed that poor, bitchslapped Hillary stumbled...
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Fastened to a Dying Animal
(Because if the Coen Brothers can rip off the bard of County Sligo, then so can I.) It can be accurately said that Iraq is no country for old men. In the estimate of Just Foreign Policy.org, we have...
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State of The Nation (with poll)
When I see an idiot in high station I will add such terrors to his elevation as I can. I will put as many thorns in his crown as the leisure that I can snatch from the pressure of other pleasures will...
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God: Parallel Dimension Bush Sent To Us By Mistake (with poll)
The Pearly Gates --- In a rare, surprising press conference, the Almighty Creator of the Heavens and the Earth set the record straight on the last two presidential elections. "Is this thing on? OK,...
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