Monthly Archives: December 2009

December 31, 2009

Top 10 Wingnuts Whose Deaths I’d Celebrate, 2010 Edition

Glenn Beck is No. 1! The May 2007 death of Jerry Falwell inspired me at that time to compose a “Top 10 Wingnuts Whose Deaths I’d Celebrate List.” It seems to be that time of year for top-10 lists, and the … Continue reading →

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December 30, 2009

Internet revolution the ONE good thing about the dog shit of a decade that was

The last 10 years really have sucked ass. First there was the blatantly stolen presidential election of late 2000. Hey, what harm to the nation could a band of thieves possibly do in the White House for four or eight years? George … Continue reading →

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December 28, 2009

Even unsuccessful terrorist attacks are successful if we respond with terror

Is it me or do Americans actually miss the post-9/11 hysteria? Based upon the it-must-be-a-slow-news-week media coverage and the politicization of an apparent failed attempt of a 23-year-old Nigerian to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day, you’d think so. There is … Continue reading →

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December 26, 2009

Settled: Scott sucked as Scrooge

Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the Scroogiest of them all? To George C. Scott’s Scrooge (top), anyway, I say: Bah humbug! I’ve seen at least two posts that assert that the late George C. Scott’s 1984 television-movie portrayal … Continue reading →

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December 26, 2009

Debate on pregnant U.S. soldiers misses the point, as usual

I just read a column by yet another apparent self-loathing woman — you know, the kind of woman who thinks that Sarah Palin is just great, you betcha! — on the topic of pregnant U.S. soldiers. The piece (of shit) … Continue reading →

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December 25, 2009

I guess the pope ISN’T inFALLible

Associated Press photo If at first you don’t succeed…: 25-year-old Susanna Maiolo, a Swiss-Italian national, tackled Pope Palpatine at St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican last night. She tried unsuccessfully to get to Palpatine last year on Christmas Eve, and reports are … Continue reading →

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December 23, 2009

Sally Struthers has hijacked my e-mail

A tearful Sally Struthers used to be the only one we had to worry about. Now, charitable organizations are trying to make us feel guilty right and left so that we strain our already-strained wallets even further. Oh, well. I … Continue reading →

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December 20, 2009

Apocalypse right now

Film review In “The Road,” Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee (above) play a father and a son fighting to survive in a barren post-apocalyptic United States of America where they always are in danger of being hunted by bands of cannibalistic … Continue reading →

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December 19, 2009

I give Obama a ‘C’ for ‘Clintonesque’

We voted for Barack Obama in November 2008, but we got another President Clinton anyway. I supported Barack Obama in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary primarily because I didn’t think that his primary opponent Billary Clinton could win the White House, and also because … Continue reading →

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December 14, 2009

Boxer already has won re-election

Associated Press photo Sen. Barbara Boxer of California, chair of the U.S. Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee, speaks during a news conference in Washington, D.C., today on the climate-change talks in Copenhagen. Meanwhile, her would-be Repugnican successors are focusing … Continue reading →

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