Archive for November, 2010
Dear Anonymous TSA Agent: Get Stuffed
Here is my response to this anonymous TSA security mook who decided to lecture us on how we should act when we enter their little kingdoms. We’re sorry you have this job, but we didn’t actually force you to take it. We have no more sympathy for you than we do for the clerk at [...]
Dishonesty and Insults Are Not the Ways to Earn Our Trust, Senator Inhofe
Republican Senator and conservative icon James Inhofe has disgraced himself and his conservative beliefs today. In an op-ed that appeared at National Review’s The Corner blog he chose to defend earmarks not with principle and defensible logic but with half-truths, ridiculous assertions, and a main argument so risible that I find it hard to believe [...]
Five by Five Episode 15 – The Comeback!
Five by Five, the fastest podcast on the internet*, is back! We went on hiatus for a while but the break is ovah! You can participate in future Five by Five videocasts, too. If you have a topical subject, politics or no, on which you’d like to see me opine for a whole minute, drop [...]
Clearing the Browser Tabs – Fantastic Friday Edition
Happy Friday to you all. It’s been a bit of a slow news week, which isn’t always a bad thing, though it has slowed my recent torrid blogging pace, but I have a couple treats in the works for next week I think you’ll enjoy. I’m going to stray away from politics a few times [...]
The Delivery Presents – Sedition to the Left of Me, Rebellion to the Right!
I may have mentioned before that I don’t usually enter full rant mode on the show, but Episode 64 was pretty much a series of rants about various rant-worthy subject. The topic of the show was insurrection and I started with the one that ticked me off the most: the Ted Rall/Dylan “Rat Man” Ratigan [...]
Clearing the Browser Tabs – Give a Veteran a Home Thursday Edition
Today is Veterans’ Day and I’d like to propose something a little bit different. Instead of merely seeking out a soldier and thanking them for their service, why not do something a bit more concrete. A friend tipped me to a group called Homes for Our Troops. This group builds specialized homes for soldiers who [...]
What? I’m Making an Erudite Point About Body Image Here!
Kim Kardashian naked in the latest edition of Harper’s Bazaar? Well, okay, Internet, if you insist! Some might wonder why I, a respected blogger of substantial intellectual heft and impeccable rhetorical style, would stoop to linking a story about Kim Kardashian naked in a major glossy magazine. To those people, I can only say…Rule 5. [...]
Forgive Me If I Don’t Play the Handicapping Game
National Journal has published its first ranking of the potential Republican 2012 Presidential field. It looks like they’ll be updating this regularly, so, if you’re into that sort of thing, be sure to keep the link handy. I don’t see a lot of sense in ranking the contenders right now. The primaries are about a [...]
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