Arianna’s Republican Hattrick (or Toyboy)
As they say things happen in threes, here's proof. First we saw her on holiday with Newt, then we saw her cuddled up and huddling with Issa in Las...
Bill Maher’s Big Lie Contribution?
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...
Following the Rightwing Fashion?
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...
American Exceptionalism, American Nightmare
Rather than speaking of "American Exceptionalism" as de Tocqueville described the experience, they applied the purely Palinesque definition of the phrase - in other words, the "dumbass definition."
Who’s the Pussy Now?
More than anyone else, in the ever-widening sphere of political punditry, Bill Maher has become a slave to the fashionable practice of Obama-bashing. Bill likes to remind everyone that...
KO: The Sacrificial Mutton
Oh, the angst. Keith Olbermann leaves MSNBC. Well, he left "by mutual consent," which is a euphemism for getting the sack. And people expostulate. That's right. The Left mourn...
Why Buy the Cow When You Can Get the Milk for Free?
For everyone who watched Keith Olbermann's show last night and saw his and Arianna Huffington's wanton and deliberate misrepresentation of President Obama's opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal,...
Same Shit, Different Day, Same Lies, Same Voices
Last week, I watched the return of Real Time with Bill Maher. I always approach each episode of that show with trepidation, because I never know whether Bill's actually...
The Euphemism of Plain Speech (and Yes, That’s an Oxymoron)
Right, come the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November 2012, I hope to take up arms with my laptop, sitting here in merry old England, and...
The American People
Just who are "the American People?"
I want to know.
I hear that phrase bandied about by all and sundry and so much at the moment, but I'm damned if I...