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The Looney Awards: Bachmann Time Travels to 1942
Some would say awarding a Looney Award to Michele Bachmann is like kicking a quadriplegic whilst they’re down. I suppose there’s some truth to that, but she always makes it so damned easy. This time she links the 2010 census to Japanese internment camps.
The Cirque du Nitwits and Their Pratfalls
People are watching the Republicans and either laughing or crying about their final demise. While it’s grotesquely enjoyable to watch, here’s to hoping they don’t really go so far off the rails they drown in the Potomac. Although, an experience that mirrors waterboarding might not be such a bad idea.
Randomness Only a Mother Could Love
The best in weird news, odd people, and funny events from across the globe. Proving once again that the Darwin principle lives in all of us.
Our Long National Nightmare Is Decidedly Not Over
Our “long national nightmare” is decidedly not over. Each day brings stories of the crapulence of the Bush era and along with those stories many others outside the administration may be swept up too. Except for an asterisk in the history books, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton escaped legal accountability. It appears the current administration may not even be willing to apply the asterisk to George Bush.
Joe the Plumber: Step Away From My Kids!
Samuel “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher is a talented man. By my calculations his 15 minutes of fame should’ve been over about 130 days ago, yet the man continues to go like some sort of demented Energizer Wing Nut -reinventing himself almost daily. Today’s job – gay rights expert.
You Shall Know the Swine By Their Porcine Squeals
It seems the first symptom of swine flu is a virulent case of the stupids. But fear not, you won’t need a thermometer to tell who’s sick, you’ll know them by their porcine squeals.
Shepard Smith Goes Off the Reservation
Shepard Smith had an attack of rationality when he unleashed a righteous attack on two Fox News colleagues trying to justify torture. He shouted, “I don’t give a rat’s ass if it helps. We are AMERICA! We do not fu*king torture!!” Truer words were never said on Fox and in that moment I found myself cheering for a Foxer.
To Prosecute or Not Prosecute, That Is the Question
Torture investigation is a job for the American legal system – the one that grants the same rights to accused torturers that the torturers denied their victims. Lacking cartilage for a spine and having gelatinous goo for brains, Congress can do nothing but make the situation worse. We need an impartial special prosecutor now.
Wiretaps We Can’t Believe In
Although the Bush economic train wreck hogged election headlines there were still many voters who understood the economy was huge but that there were also equally big elephants (pun intended) in the room. The erosion of civil liberties and the conduct of the Wars of Error chief among them.
The Wisdom of the Poobah
Wisdom is a funny thing. Whenever you need it, it’s hiding with the mismatched socks. Since I am omnipotent and a poobah to boot, I’m going to let you have some of my wisdom absolutely free.
Not the Worst Person in the World! (Yet)
OK Olbermann, we get it. You hate Bill O’Reilly. Sure, he’s a sanctimonious self-aggrandizing blowhard. Yes, he’s wrong more often than not. OK, he appears on a TV network that bills itself as “fair and balanced” in an obviously oxymoronic way. But Keith, give it a break will ya’?
Randomness: Products in Search of a Market Style
The best in weird news, odd people, and funny events from across the globe. Proving once again that the Darwin principle lives in all of us.
The Age of Reverse Darwinism Is Upon Us
Each morning I read my newspaper and get validation that truth is stranger than fiction. But lately, I’ve seen cracks in that previously sacrosanct notion. It seems that truth is now so weird it doesn’t even make good fiction.
A Pizza Boy’s Lesson for the Monied Class
How the Mighty Have Fallen – One day you’re a hedge fund-running member of the monied class, the next you’re delivering pizza. What the story of Ken Karpman can teach us about class divisions.
Dick Cheney, Stuff Does NOT Just Happen
The Big Dick thinks “stuff” just “happens”. Excuse me Mr. Vice President, but “stuff”, most assuredly, doesn’t just “happen”.
What Do AIG and Cattle Have in Common?
These days, bailed out CEOs are less popular than journalists, lawyers, politicians, and Rush Limbaugh all rolled into a single money-sucking mega-turd. Now AIG wants to retain the “top” talent that dug us into this hole. What do AIG and cows have in common? They’re both full of crap.
It’s Time to Dishonorably Discharge ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
”Don’t ask, don’t tell” wasn’t a carefully conceived policy; it was a messy compromise between Bill Clinton and former Senator Sam Nunn. If there are to be any dishonorable discharges, it shouldn’t be gay soldiers, sailors, and airmen. It should be a flawed policy that has outlived its dubious usefulness.
He Fought the Law and the Law Lost
Bush was once quoted as saying the Constitution is, “just a goddamn piece of paper”. Many Americans believed the made-up quote because it sounded so “Bushy”. Even though he didn’t say it, he still treated the Constitution as a goddamn piece of paper rather than the blueprint for running the nation.
Randomness: Sexy Republican Style
The best in weird news, odd people, and funny events from across the globe. Proving once again that the Darwin principle lives in all of us.
