Perfectly Ridiculous
May 7, 2012“Whenever anyone talks to me about mad cow, I just pull out a picture of my ex-wife.” — Interview, Wall Street’s market animal, The Bull, Esquire, January, 2009 European voters knocked the soup bowl over…
Tag Archives: Politics
Pump the Dollars
May 2, 2012One item that’s fallen off the news radar the past few weeks is gas prices — no more the hand-wringing stories of people going without food to fuel their vehicles and all is well. Out…
Anniversary
May 1, 2012Put-down of the day number one — from Juan Cole, pissed at Mitt Romney’s put-down of President Obama’s take-out of Osama bin Laden: Mitt Romney said Monday that of course he would have taken out…
Monday’s Word
April 30, 2012Mitt Romney waxing eloquent Friday at Otterbein University in Ohio: “The impact of gathering facts, gathering information, learning about the reality behind the words, has proven to me, in the business sector, that facts are…
Voices of Vicious Villainy
April 29, 2012As we begin a near-seven month nightmare — the 2012 elections — the US of A has become one vast holding pen of pure bullshit, creating an ironic, near-mockery of American democracy. Not only is…
Power Outage
April 26, 2012Early yesterday, we had a couple of power outages — pretty rare up here — and the last one occurred while working on this blog, and no post. First time during the weekdays for more…
Weathering Climate Change
April 15, 2012Welcome to the real future: The National Weather Service received 121 reports of possible tornado touchdowns Saturday and early Sunday in Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa. This morning also via CNN, five people, including two…
Hilariously Not Funny
April 13, 2012Next to the North Koreans, the US Republican political party is the biggest bunch of incompetent, big-mouthed assholes on the planet — after some wondrous words of self praise, both fired rockets that disintegrated shortly…
Turd Privilege
February 28, 2012Wealth can indeed make one an asshole. A new study indicates when a person has more, he will take more: Those findings led to a series of experiments that revealed that people of higher socioeconomic…
Educating little Rick — ‘No dark sarcasm in the classroom’
February 26, 2012The vaulted Michigan primary is this Tuesday and the ugly, nasty waters of the GOP will be muddled even further if Mitt Romney loses — the man’s biggest rival, bonehead Rick Santorum, blubbered to voters…