Monthly Archives: April 2011

Team Obama’s response to Dittygate only proves protesters’ point

I was going to write about it right after it happened, but I didn’t, but it’s back in the news again, so now I will. On Thursday, April 21, the Obama administration was pretty fucking embarrassed when a short video … Continue reading

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Stop male genital mutilation

Oh, those moonbatty San Franciscans! They’re trying to get the banning of circumcision in San Franciso on the city ballot. Horrors! Slicing off an infant’s foreskin is a God-given right! Except that it isn’t. It is what it is: male genital mutilation. … Continue reading

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Donald Trump, president of pettiness

When I wrote that I hope that Donald Trump runs for president, I didn’t mention that Trump’s “platform” thus far has consisted — solely, as far as I can tell – of questioning where President Barack Obama was born. I didn’t … Continue reading

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Wazzup in Wisconsin? (Part 2)

I don’t live in Wisconsin (I live in the great state of California), but I’m paying fairly close attention to what’s going on in the Badger State (which has become the nation’s No. 1 laboratory of democracy and where, except … Continue reading

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Run, Donald, run!

Right-wing billionaire Donald Trump addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., in February (above) and speaks at a Repugnican Tea Party rally in Boca Raton, Florida, earlier this month (below). It’s pretty clear, I think, that Trump, if he is … Continue reading

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Boycott WIN! (And chimp FAIL!)

Reuters photo Repugnican Tea Party Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer claims that she doesn’t want to see President Barack Obama’s circumcision certificate. (Of course, even if he did make it public, the wingnuts would call it a fake…) Boycotts work. That’s why boycotts — … Continue reading

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Eddie Munster vants to suck our blood

Putting yourself in the public spotlight is risky. You might succeed spectacularly. Or you might have Jon Stewart remarking of you on his show that he didn’t know that “Eddie Munster grew up to be a J.C. Penney catalog model.” Indeed, … Continue reading

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Obama’s move to the middle takes us off a cliff

Glenn Greenwald has posted a good analysis of what the fuck it is that Team Obama is doing, and I have to agree with Glenn. Greenwald argues that it isn’t that Team Obama wants to defeat the Repugnican Tea Party’s agenda but … Continue reading

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Mitt Romney: The next Bob Dole

In honor of Mitt Romney officially announcing his 2012 presidential bid today, I am reposting the following piece, which I originally posted on March 6. I have little to add — and the poll numbers remain pretty much the same – except … Continue reading

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Wazzup in Wisconsin?

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel photo Katherine Harris wannabe (?) Kathy Nickolaus (shown at top, above an image of the actual Katherine Harris), a Repugnican Tea Party county clerk in a Repugnican Tea Party-leaning county in Wisconsin, announces on Thursday that she’d … Continue reading

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