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Keith Olbermann calls for a boycott of Fox News. Boycott how? Here’s how: when you find yourself in a bar or restaurant with the TV set to Fox News, find an owner or manager and tell him you’ll take your business elsewhere if he doesn’t change the channel, and calmly explain why. Keith then lists […]
On last night’s loss of Air France Flight 447 in the Atlantic Ocean, it’s simply too early to speculate on what might have happened. If the aircraft is never found, speculation might be all we’ll ever get. It took more than a year to find Steve Fossett’s crash site, even though searchers had the area […]
Hogging the fast lane Shopping at Piggly-Wiggly “My God, your bedroom is a sty!” Thinking nothing’s wrong with pork barrel spending Five little piggies on each foot Grunting “What smells?” Bringing home the bacon Favorite Muppets character: Miss Piggy Favorite Muppets skit: Pigs in Spaaaaace Hamming it up for the camera Poor table manners “Jesus, […]
Most of my Missouri relatives are registered Republicans, but I have a Show Me niece who is more Republican than most: she’s an up-and-comer in the party who was selected to spend a summer working as an intern at the Ronald Reagan Library. Smart as hell, too, this niece. I adore and admire her, so […]
When I grow up, I want to write police blotter reports for the local paper! From the Tucson Weekly, Feb 19, 2009: Police Dispatch By Anna Mirocha Semi-Insane East Benson Highway, Jan. 21, 7:04 p.m. A lone woman, possibly impaired by serious alcohol or drug ingestion, put her own life in danger and annoyed many […]
You couldn’t make this shit up if you tried: That a major metropolitan newspaper in the USA would print a cartoon like this shows you just how ugly it’s going to be for the next eight years. And you’d better get used to it, because the mouth-breathing racists in our midst who we thought might […]
It seems like whenever the news is good, the stock market tanks. Unemployment down? Stocks plummet. Wages up? Stocks plummet. Orders for durable goods up? Stocks plummet. New home starts up? Stocks plummet. And now the new administration gets a stimulus package stuffed with tax cuts through the senate . . . and stocks plummet. […]
First of all, Barack Obama needs to replace Rahm Emanuel: discovering that Timothy Geithner, Tom Daschle, and Nancy Killefer were tax cheats was his job, and he failed to do it. He certainly wouldn’t be my chief of staff any longer. This whole rich-people-don’t-pay-taxes thing has got to stop. We’ve been having our noses rubbed […]