A Dog’s Paw: Climate’s Crusade
June 16, 2011The very most-wonderful dog I ever had was a Springer Spaniel (very similar to the one shown at left) named Bogie, one sweet animal given to me as a puppy. He was a pure breed,…
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Word
June 15, 2011The real bullshit started here: “This is the operative statement. The others are inoperative.” — Ron Ziegler, April 17, 1973 Of course, Ziegler went on to construct one of the more infamous of the Watergate…
Weiner Dogs Don’t Hunt
June 7, 2011Cyrus: Do you fly, Johnny? Johnny: No. Cyrus: You keep that in mind when you look at her…because if your dick jumps out of your pants…you jump out of this plane. –Â Con Air One has…
Fake for Real — And We’re Better Off Because of It
June 6, 2011Someone asked why I invited Jon Stewart to be the first guest on the Journal’s premiere in 2007. “Because Mark Twain isn’t available,” I answered. I was serious. Like Twain, Stewart has proven that truth…
Happy, Happy — Not!
June 2, 2011The reason they call it the American Dream is because you have to be asleep to believe it. — George Carlin Some US peoples might believe they’re happy, but in reality happy is just illusion…
Memory
May 30, 2011My standard for Memorial Day: “Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth into battle — be Thou near them! With them — in spirit — we also go forth from…
Climate-nator Terminated
May 20, 2011What’s love got to do with it, do with it? And what’s up with all these high-profile people doing the nasty in a most-outrageous and public way, turning the manly phrase, ‘gettin’ a little,’ into…
Dream and Reality
May 19, 2011US peoples are a resilient breed. The great American Dream still lives, but only within a nightmare of sleepless fantasy. James Truslow Adams coined the phrase, American Dream, in his 1931 book, The Epic of…
Economic Recovery and Splitsville
April 29, 2011Taking up smoking cigarettes has got to be one of the most dumb-ass things I’ve ever done in my life — except maybe for being married twice! From AFP in honor of Kate and Bill…
A Terrible Tale Nearly Forgotten
April 1, 2011In the face of so much bad shit going on right now — even another US theater of war in Libya — the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan is taking a deep-back seat on the runaway…