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Slouching Towards Tampa (¿Habla Jackass? edition)
Rick Santorum has a BA, an MBA, a law degree, and served two terms in the House and two in the Senate. He also has all the common sense of a summer squash and seems not to know anything about the laws...
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TO: Rick ‘Down-in-Flames, Bwahahaha!’ Santorum
Ricky: For some reason, I wound up on your mailing list – perhaps placed there by someone with a cruel sense of humor. In any event, I feel compelled to comment on your latest email because – well,...
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Slouching Towards Tampa (A Candidacy to Remember edition)
One hundred years ago today, the RMS Titanic slipped into the North Atlantic, taking with it more than 1,500 lives; five days ago today, Rick Santorum went to Gettysburg and suspended his presidential...
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Sunday Talks, 6/17/12
Mitt Romney headlines this Sunday’s television talk shows, doing a rare interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” Host Bob Schieffer said midweek he was heading out on the campaign trail to catch up with...
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To Rick (Google for more info) Santorum
Dear Lil’ Ricky: Well, I see I am still on your e-mail list, Ricky. And as long as you are going to continue spewing your nonsense into my inbox, I am going to continue to respond. Your latest missive...
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Take Five (Aw, Shut Up edition)
ONE: Family Circus of Horrors Among the persistent annoyances of modern life, like “smart” phones, white kids desperate to make the world think they just came straight outta Compton, and those...
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Take Five (Did You Hear His Middle Name’s Hussein edition)
ONE: Q – What’s the difference between the Republican Party and a flat earth society? A – It’s a trick question. There is no difference. With a second Obama term looking more and more assured,...
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TO: Rick Santorum (R-Frothy Mix)
Dear Ricky: Well, it seems I’m still on your mailing list – the one compiled for your incredibly abysmal presidential campaign, which has now been assumed by your equally idiotic venture, “Patriot...
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I Just Can’t Quit Ya, Ricky
Well, it looks like I’m still on Lil’ Ricky Santorum’s email list. I could ask to be removed, but his senseless ramblings are just too damned entertaining to give up. A guilty pleasure on my part?...
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Take Five (Zero Worship edition)
ONE: I Just Can’t Quit Her She might be an obscure political footnote waiting to happen, but Michele Bachmann will always be heroic to me. Even among her fellow House Republicans, few would even try to...
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Stormy Monday, 8/5/13
With the House and Senate now shuttered until September, anyone seeking a quick fix of foolishness this week will have to look beyond the Beltway. Ames, Iowa would be an ideal place to start. On...
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Take Five (Way Stranger than Fiction edition)
If those present at the March on Washington imagined anything about the national conversation on race half a century hence, they might well have assumed it would at least be an adult conversation,...
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“Frothy Mixture of Fecal Matter” Strikes Again
Well, Lil’ Ricky, I am in receipt of your latest “Patriot Voices” newsletter – and, as always, my mind is boggled (although never surprised) by your blatant self-serving hypocrisy. “Patriot Voices has...
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Stormy Monday, 11/11/13
If you’re reading this, either the fragments of the Gravity Ocean Circulation Explorer didn’t fall on you or you have an admirably hard head. The European Space Agency satellite ran out of fuel on...
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An Open Letter to Rick Santorum (and His Fellow Convenient Christians)
Re your recent remarks on CNN’s State of the Nation: “I also discussed how our First Amendment rights are being impacted by ObamaCare. The idea that the First Amendment stops when you walk out of a...
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Take Five (100th edition)
ONE: It’s All Over Now, Sacre Bleu The first edition of this column, three years ago today, began with an item about Bob Dylan’s handwritten lyrics for “The Times They Are A-Changin’” selling for...
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Stormy Monday, 8/18/14
At the behest of Attorney General Eric Holder, the body of Michael Brown will be autopsied for a third time this week as federal and state investigations into his fatal shooting by police officer...
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A Good Year for the Poses
The 2014 Values Voter Summit wrapped up Sunday in Washington, and Omni Shoreham Hotel staff must be working hard to expunge the building of the heavy stench of gunpowder and cliché. Like previous...
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Time Mismanagement
Republicans, unconcerned with progress or sensible public policy, have plenty of free time to devote to other pursuits. Like feigning outrage. For that, and only for that, Barack Obama has been their...
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