Six People Who Need Their Heads Popped Like a Zit

It’s been a rough decade or so for America. One disaster after another. I find it hard to get cranky over anything or anyone anymore and I’m ashamed to say my blog production has dropped off as a result.

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Evangelicals Must Pray Early, Pray Often

The American electorate is famously uneducated. They’re easily dazzled by slick commercials that eloquently say nothing or by truthy mixes of lies and obfuscation. If guileless Americans had the tiniest speck of skepticism, political advertising wouldn’t work and money would play a smaller part in the process.

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OWS: Let the Co-Opting Begin

Flip Floping Romney

FLIP FLOPPER - Apparently Mitt Romney has as much fidelity to his "principles" as John "Flapjacks" McThusela.

Update The demographics of Occupy Wall Street: By the numbers

Opinions are like bandwagons, everybody has one. Almost all opinions have a grain of truth at their core, but you have to winnow through a lot of crabgrass to get to it.Many people like to compare the Tea Party to Occupy Wall St. I’m sure it’s a delight for the pundits to debate themselves on innumerable news programs and shout fests, but it doesn’t mean much right now. The situation is simply too fluid to predict where it will go.

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The Dirty Secrets of a Blogger

Sticks and StonesA fellow blogger once described me as, “a curmudgeon sitting on the porch, throwing firecrackers at the birds.” That’s a pretty good description I think. My posts are often cranky, snarky, and downright insulting. I don’t suffer fools gladly nor often demure from political incorrectness.

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The Republicans are a Very Odd Bunch

The one where Michele Bachmann and her lesbian lovers let it all out, Jewel spills the beans about how Sarah Palin broke up their band, and the fine difference between a boner, a Boehner, a tomato, and a ‘to-mah-to’.