Chickens have come home to roost, or rather buzzards picking over the carcass of the dead. One of the “founders” of Huffington Post has come back to blog.

Andrew Breitbart.

Sometimes, living abroad has its advantages, even in the age of the Internet. For example, I’m probably the only American in the world who doesn’t know exactly what’s been happening with Charlie Sheen. I haven’t a clue, and I suppose he doesn’t either; but whilst I caught rumblings in the [...]

He looks harmless but he’s pretty badass!

As landmark wedding anniversaries arise, the husbands’ thoughts may turn nostalgically to the amount of hair they had in their wedding photos, the lovingly polished shotgun in the bride’s father’s hands during the vows or how high the Chicken Cordon Bleu at the reception bounced if you threw it really [...]

News and opinion from around US-opolis. Quinceañera Edition.

In honor of Oscar Night, which has just passed, and for all the newcomers, I reprint this, my first ever Live from The Chicago Municipal Opera House, bequeathed to the city by Charles Foster (Citizen) Kane, it’s Oscar Night! Tonight is a special ceremony, wherein we honor the Best Pictures [...]

Is housekeeping a pain in the ass? Do you feel guilty when you let it go until tomorrow? Do you keep stuff thinking you might need it tomorrow, or next month? Cheers! I have the the ultimate guideline!! Hoarders on A&E. During the time I have been watching the show, [...]

Secretary Clinton:  Good afternoon Mr. Gaddafi.  On behalf of the U.S. State Department, under the direction of the President, I’d like to discuss  how we may bring about a peaceful solution to this current crisis.   Muammar Gadaffi: ………. Hello?   Secretary Clinton: Yes,Mr. Gaddafi.  This is U.S.  Secretary of [...]

Though the Oscar show itself is not anticipated to be the most exciting we’ve seen (can’t wait to watch Anne Hathaway deliver hokey puns!) it can still be fun to predict who the top winners will be. So, following are selected categories with the nominees for each. You’re invited to [...]

Glossolalia 101 is a series of articles discussing how pseudo-cons, neo-cons, and theo-cons (among others) use language to disguise, dominate, and obfuscate the issues. This first article deals with how politicians and pundits can use math to disguise what is really going on.     For those of us who [...]

Celebrate the upcoming Oscars this weekend with your favorite scenes and songs in film!

Nope….missed it. Thanks Mom and Dad….I could have been living in Colorado City with 8 wives and 34 children…..or in Salt Lake City with 1 wife and 34 children. But it was not to be. I went through religions like popcorn when I was growing up….tried them all. Even the [...]

“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.”

In his latest blog, God considers which is worse, Hell, Purgatory or Idaho (and if there’s a difference).

What is so challenging about writing fiction? How could that be hard? That was the question an acquaintance asked me recently. I was mildly annoyed at the question, but I realized that to many people, fiction is simply entertainment. And to many of them, entertainment comes to them easy so [...]

Since Pepe embarrassed the hell out of me the other day, I’m embarrassing him back! Sometimes people wonder how I know so much about American sports. Well, I can’t go into detail, but as part of my work, I have to be knowledgeable about American sports, even though we mostly [...]

However, I’ve noticed that you are currently finding it difficult to decide upon your next course of action. This is why I am writing to you: To sound you out on my proposal about how to resolve this situation.

Whether an old fellow virtual traveler or joining me late, come, come, do we have a date?

To those new here we have been doing different classifications of musical instruments. It always ends up a very eclectic mixture of music. Join us!

I was the world’s worse Boy Scout.  Hands down. No contest.  Was one for four years….I think…long time ago. Give me a break. I may have been the only Boy Scout in America to have not gotten a Tenderfoot merit badge. They gave you one of those for just showing [...]

I will be honest- I am an OWN Network  junkie I also closely follow the Ling sisters, I think their style of documentary journalism is amazing. Tonight, Lisa started her series, ‘Our America with Lisa Ling’ on OWN. The first episode explored  faith healers and faith healing.  She featured  three people attending [...]

Well, I missed Valentine’s Day by a bit, but here is some poetry and artwork of mine on the theme of eternal love. More specifically, both song and image were inspired by an archeological discovery a few years back in Italy, wonderfully ironically not far from the village where Romeo [...]

-Over 70% of Americans were for the war in Iraq before they were against it. -Almost 60% of Americans approved of torture in the guise of “enhanced interrogation techniques”. -67% of Americans think Global Warming is not a threat in their lifetime. -40% of Americans believe man was created by [...]

I’m an atheist, but I’m pretty tolerant in my non-belief. I don’t mind people of faith, as long as they don’t start trying to convince me that their way is the right way. Conversely, I don’t try to impose my non-belief on others. It works for me, but I’m cognizant [...]

Living in the UK, I often say I’m five hours ahead and one day behind everyone else. Also, working a long day and catching up with news Stateside leaves me less time than I want to write about things I’ve read or seen. I’ve only just caught up with watching [...]