I have no idea who Randy Bish is other than that he appears to work at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. And if I were his editor, I’d can him after this little piece of drivel culled from Cagle’s clearinghouse of editorials (4÷15÷09): I mean come on. Chappaquiddick was 40 years ago. Is this honestly the best, the very […]
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Open letter to John McCain
Senator McCain, as an Arizona constituent I’m respectfully asking you to stop attacking the new President and his policies. Your party, the GOP, had eight years in the White House and a decade plus in the legislature. In that time we’ve found ourselves immersed in two ruinous wars and sliding rapidly into catastrophic depression. The policies […]
Let’s at least wait for the first 100 days to end…
Image by Patrick Chappatte at Daryl Cagle’s pad. Over the last eight years I’ve been increasingly annoyed by the way Ronald Reagan has been lionized. Airports, aircraft carriers, schools named after the man, and he wasn’t a particularly good or adequate president. Listen. The man ignored AIDS. He had an arms-for-hostages deal going with Iran. (Yes, […]
Bush planning to get educated
From da’ Beeb: US President George W Bush has said he and Barack Obama will discuss issues such as the global financial crisis and the war in Iraq “early next week”. Hopefully BO will be able to give W some sound advice on how to handle these issues, because it’s obvious as hell that George hasn’t got the […]
The prescience of The Onion
Clayton Cubitt pointed out (obliquely) that satire-paper The Onion can be eerily predictive. I noticed this myself years ago with the article he links as well, first published on January 17, 2001, no shit: WASHINGTON, DC–Mere days from assuming the presidency and closing the door on eight years of Bill Clinton, president-elect George W. Bush assured the […]
FRAUD AT POLLS!
Oh wait, wrong headline. I watched BBC America last night for the results, while reading a copy of the Apocrypha Discordia — truly the only appropriate way to wait for election news. For me the highlight of the evening — before the 333-vote tally at 9:30 or so — was John Bolton making an ass of himself […]
Just a reminder: Morons still walk among us
In case you’re wondering exactly why you should vote, or in case you’re sneaking sips of the heady nepenthe of victory already, I should remind you that inbreds, mouth-breathers and those with a surfeit of chromosomes still shamble among us, as in the case of the Jacksonville (FL) area: After hearing about three hours of public comments, Duval […]
FOTE, YOU VUCKERS!
You know what I mean.
New McCain strategy: Random insults
Not of Obama, but of the US as a whole. While at Outback Saturday, I had a woman come up to me and ask me if I was Joe the Plumber. This is not something you want to ask someone like me for myriad reasons. I bit back the harshest acid, though, and simply said, “No, I’ve got a college […]
Surgery
“You doing all right?” “I guess,” I said. “I’m a little nervous.” The nurse smiled. “You’ll be fine. We’re a well-funded institution, and we’re doing OK for technology.” Somehow, for some reason, I was not reassured. The mask was fixed on my face and I felt the cool injection of anesthetics into my IV line. “Breathe deeply,” the nurse said. “And relax.” […]
Beyond lies, into the realm of pure stupidity
Not so much McCain’s campaign, but those who still believe in him. Now McCain is suggesting that Obama’s proposed policies, such as raising taxes by 3% on the rich, are socialist. Not at all like the US Government’s 700 billion bailout of Wall Street fat fucktards, which isn’t socialist in the least, oh no no no […]
Again with the saber rattling?
It’s fascinating to me to hear McCain and Obama expound on policy, as though they were already elected and dictating to congress. One of them surely will be, but the hubris required to behave as though you’ve already won is genuinely — well, entertaining. McCain is now saying that he would “pre-emptively” strike (that is, […]
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