Humor

(or How I Came to Prefer the Bomb) With reports and hype currently abounding regarding Japanese nuclear plants endangered by recent (and continuing) earthquakes, perhaps it is time to take a look at the truth about the state of nuclear power in the world today.

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...

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...

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:...

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...

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...

“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).