While Barry Obama is getting his teeth whitened, while John Edwards is getting another $400 haircut and while Mrs Clingon is learning the focus group results of just how much cleavage her frumpy dress should reveal the number of functionally illiterate Americans continues to ramp up at a rate that makes the Guggenheim a candidate for the […]

Priorities:
In an attempt to raise the nation’s historically low rate of breast-feeding, federal health officials commissioned an attention-grabbing advertising campaign a few years ago to convince mothers that their babies faced real health risks if they did not breast-feed. It featured striking photos of insulin syringes and asthma inhalers topped with rubber nipples.

Plans to run […]

Sounds like a movie title in the tradition of Eric Roemer.  But it’s just something else the right wing blogosphere and other GOP hatchet people can weigh in on.  Unlike Dick Nixon, who was a “pinhead” in the eyes of J. Edgar Hoover and for that never got into the FBI (if he did, he would […]

The Forehead

on Bushco’s drive for Democracy in America Middle East:
As recounted by former U.S. officials, the story embodies the mix of hubris and naivete that has characterized so much of the drive for a permanent Republican majority Iraq effort . From President Bush on down, U.S. officials enthused about Republican one-party rule Iraqi democracy while […]

James Baker used to say that “cheap beer and dollar gas” was all that average Americans who bother to vote really care about.  In spite of all the angst generated by the “MSM and the blogosphere” current US stocks of oil can last us for about a month and, in spite of that, at-the-pump gas prices […]

As Hurricane Dean swept over the Yucatan Peninsula and headed for Mexico, the 24-hour news cycle briefly focused on the thousands of workers being evacuated from oil rigs in that part of the Gulf. But if you’re like me you probably didn’t realize just how big a deal an active hurricane season may be for […]

IOZ has a response pretty close to mine regarding Larry Craig the human being, but it’s pigs like Mona Charon that always ups the story to Larry Craig, victim of Liberal hypocrisy over Craig’s hypocrisy:
Okay it’s not as much fun as the jokes, but I just did a quick Nexis search for stories about Larry […]

1. Looking at jail time, Michael Vick has found Jesus.
1A. If, as G.K. Chesterton said, patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, finding Jesus is the next-to-last. He’ll find plenty of like-minded guys in the joint.
2. George W. Bush still loves his BFF Alfredo Gonzales: “It’s sad that we live in a time when […]

This weekend, Austin Cline wrote at Jesus’ General about the recent Philip Atkinson piece suggesting that the only way to Save America is to make George W. Bush President for Life. (I blogged about it a while back.) He notes that the kind of martial law Atkinson advocates wouldn’t bother many American Christians one bit. […]

Reading blogs and the MSM one gets the impression that the “race” for the White House is already out of the clubhouse turn and into the backstretch. In many instances coverage of “the campaign” takes on the same disconnected, soundbite-skewed characteristics as the personality stuctures of the “candidates” themselves. For an election that […]