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Read My Lips! Rick Perry Speaks.

One of the funniest things I've ever seen. 

Barack Obama: The Man Who Couldn't Triangulate Straight

President Obama is poised on the edge of a miracle.  He's about to make progressives and mainstream liberals hate him as much as the Tea Partiers do.  This is not a small feat, since it was exactly those people--liberals and progressives--who fueled his historic rise from the Illinois State House to the White House and greeted his presidency with such high hopes. 

Yet, sometime in the next week or so, he will trash the foundational values of the Democratic Party for...what?  A deal that gives him pretty much nothing except the ability to go on television and claim that he--the responsible adult--has saved the Republic from financial ruin caused by those crazy Tea Baggers?  And this, his wrongheaded ...

Waltzing Matilda – A Song for Rupert Murdoch

Doug Shaw, a blogger on my Human Capital League site, posted this parody yesterday.  It was so good I wanted to share it with the BofB gang.

A few days ago whilst I was away cycling in the Peak District Rick tweeted and pointed me in the direction of the excellent Democracy Fail blog, and in particular he referenced a song they’d written on the blog around the time of Rupert Murdoch’s 80th birthday. Rick suggested I might try and sing it, the good people at Democracy Fail agreed so the scene was set. As we all know the News International saga took another turn today so I’ve recorded the song and taken the liberty of adding a new verse, just to keep things fresh. Hope you like it.

I’m an Aussie rag man with a global media ...

Run Hillary, Run

Something truly momentous happened today.  For the first time ever, Karl Rove published a column that I agreed with.  It's titled Why Obama is Likely to Lose in 2012 and lists four good reasons that Obama might want to sign on for some carpentry lessons with Jimmy Carter since he's going to have some free time on his hands after November 2012. 

The most compelling of the reasons is that the economy doesn't look like it's going to be much better next year than it is today, but the others will all be a factor too:  an alienated base that feels betrayed by his lack of commitment to any truly progressive ideal; the unpopular healthcare law which is revealing itself, little by little, to even its most ardent supporters as ...

Maybe Anthony Weiner is Gay

Bear with me, here.  Let's stipulate that Congressman Weiner is telling the truth when he says that (a) he never sent the now infamous tweet  to a coed in Seattle but (b) there is a possibility that the person in the photograph of a male's aroused penis cleverly camouflaged behind a pair of gray boxers may, in fact, be him. 

That raises the question of why the Congressman had such a picture in his possession in such an easily retrievable place to start with.  To impress coeds in Seattle?  Methinks not.  A long lifetime of hanging out with the gals tells me that some women might find it funny, some would find it vulgar and disgusting, some would find it threatening...but a sexual turn-on?  No way. Only .. ...

Is Donald Trump Trying to Help Obama?

Bear with me for a moment.  For the past couple of months we've been treated to the spectacle of short-fingered vulgarian Donald Trump strutting around the country like Randy "Macho Man" Savage infuriating reasonable people and delighting the not-as-small-as-it-should-be lunatic fringe who've never been happy about having a "colored boy" in the White House.  Why anyone would trust the veracity of man who can't explain his own hair is a great mystery but there you have it.

Trump, who is not a billionaire but plays one on TV, is not a complete idiot and obviously doesn't believe any of the nonsense he's been spouting so what's he up to?  Publicity, sure; he is a giant among media whores, a man who makes the Kardashian ...

Tea Party Issues New Airport Screening Rules

In response to the outrage triggered by the Transportation Safety Administration's new enhanced security inspections, the Tea Party of America has called for the following changes to the procedures:

1.  White people go through security unchallenged.  (Exceptions may be made for young white males wearing tee shirts with Timothy McVeigh's likeness or name on them.)

2.  Brown people or people speaking any foreign language (and that includes Spanish) will undergo the current level of screening, be required to show a green card and answer correctly five questions about the American Constitution.

3.  Anyone dressing as an Arab, looking like an Arab, or having Hussein as any part of their names will be taken into a small ...

The Girl Who Will Play Lizbeth Salander


We have a Lizbeth Salander for the American version of "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" series.  Rooney Mara, a relatively unknown 24-year-old got the nod over dozens of 20-something competitors, many of them better known.  Apparently, she had the inside track all along having played a leading role in director David Fincher's still-to-be-released "The Social Network," the story of the early days of Facebook.  She is getting only something in the $150,000-$200,000 range for the first picture in the trilogy but don't worry about her having to bus tables at HoJo's.  Mara is the great-granddaughter of Pittsburgh Steelers founder Art Rooney and Giants founder Tim Mara.

Missouri Votes Yes for Socialized Medicine

This falls into the gee-I-wish-I-had-thought-of-that category.  Gail Collins, the witty columnist for the New York Times, turns her attention to yesterday's Missouri primary and does her usual great job of dissecting the hidden meaning of political events--including this keeper:

...more than 70 percent of Missouri voters endorsed a measure that would wipe out the part of the new federal health care law that requires people to have insurance. They were unswayed by the fact that the proposition was almost certainly unconstitutional and unenforceable. This was a chance to send a message that voters are fed up! With government and insiders — unless they’re running for the Senate.

But it also seems fair to interpret the vote as a ...

The Unbearable Chutzpeh of American Business

So, American business is unhappy with Obama.   From sea to shining sea, businesspeople of all shapes and sizes are holding their breath and stamping their little feet and hoarding cash and refusing to hire people because they're feeling unloved.  They are withdrawing campaign contributions from Democratic candidates and screaming about how Karl Mark has taken over the National Labor Relations Board.  Their allies in the GOP yell "socialism" every time someone suggests that maybe a little government regulation might not be such a bad thing.  Their Tea Party patriots are kept in a state of sustained paranoia by the rantings of a fat, drug-ingesting pedophile who has made billions of dollars from large corporations for ...