The Bushes are nothing if not clever at coming up with ways of providing social services that do not involve much governmental expenditure. They are not the first by any…
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Lawty, Lawdy, Lordy! Ya just gotta keep an eye on those Bush Boys. While the born-again one is taking his ease at Camp David over the holidays, Bubba Jeb, the…
It’s that time of the year again. Yes, Christmas,Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, and all that. But also Bowl Games. Bowl games, particularly the Rose Bowl, instantly evoke a reverie of lying…
It’s always nice, and somewhat reassuring, to see a brutal bastard get hauled out into the light as the Brutal Bastard du Jour, Saddam Hussein, was finally apprehended. Hopefully, he…
Hey, will the real George W. Bush please stand up! There are so many versions of this guy—grotesquely fashioned in the ideological laboratories of the neo-con chickenhawks and the Machiavellian…
Having blown it with the “Mission Accomplished” carrier landing in the dangerous waters a few miles off the California Coast, and in need of a less embarrassing visual for the…
It has been over two years now since 9-11 and while I still marvel at the event that has etched that date in our collective consciousness I still wonder whether…
I hate liver and onions. Why I decided to order it in the dispenser of dysentery I sometimes ate at when I was in grad school in Syracuse has long…
With the Massachusetts decision on Gay Marriage putting the issue back in the news the question has been raised as whether this will become the “wedge issue” in an strongly…
Somehow, beneath the almost sappy allusions to a new Reich in Sacramento that would have political foes newly resolved under the guiding hands of Der GoverFuhrer to work for the…