The ‘Fretful Zone’
November 19, 2011Headline-writers at the New York Times found a verb this morning in the middle of the third graph of a story on the US Census Bureau and its new measure of gauging just how bad the…
Headline-writers at the New York Times found a verb this morning in the middle of the third graph of a story on the US Census Bureau and its new measure of gauging just how bad the…
Ralph Waldo Emerson, America’s greatest philosopher, visited Thoreau in jail. Emerson asked: “Henry, why are you here?” Thoreau replied: “Why are you not here?” — In protest of the Mexican War, 1846 In those crackdowns…
Sometimes it’s nauseatingly obvious Republicans have abandoned normal and compassionate discourse and are just blubbering nonsense. On Monday, Republicans allowed health for children to be dipped in a money pie: The spending bill also would…
George Jr., always the consummate asshole: “I must say, I’m a little envious. “If I were slightly younger and not employed here, I think it would be a fantastic experience to be on the front…
In the middle of some horrific and nasty events this past week comes a piece of news that really, really sucks — the US has been working quietly behind the scenes to water down the…
Paying any amount of attention to just the last 24 hours would give any normal person a near-heart attack at the wholesale foolishness. Right now, the US is the midst of two sex scandals —…
“Simply, just did not happen.” — Herman Cain, yesterday (Illustration found here). Yes, indeed — just as simple as that. In a nutcase presser late Tuesday afternoon, Cain mouthed on and on about the simplicity…
(Illustration found here). No wonder young people are more than pissed — the future looks like shit. And greed is greed. From CNN: According to analysis by the Pew Research Center released Monday, younger Americans…
Being sick is a total bitch — and I say that in a nice way for all you female dogs out there. My youngest daughter came down out of the mountains a week or so…
“To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past. “To suggest we are on the edge of…