EVOLUTION IS A MYTH

With a firm grip on her huge banana, Christine sucked on a camel and wondered out loud in her mind if mice with fully functioning human brains would even give her the time of day. . .

Not Fit For Human Consumption

Are Americans really dumb enough to swallow anything just because it comes in a familiar package? If you wanna taste the ruse, you must click it. • If men would maintain their freedom, they must, after having chosen their charter of liberty, provide for its wise, intelligent, and fearless interpretation to the end that there may be prevented: 1. Usurpation …

Colbert Storms The Hill

Political satire has a long and effective history of highlighting important social and political issues, going back at least as far as the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans. Contemporary satire has taken many forms, from political cartoonists like the late Paul Conrad; the sixties Yippies throwing burning cash from the balcony of the New York Stock Exchange, performance art that …

Deja Vu All Over Again

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Postcards From the Pledge www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party After being thrashed in the ’04 and ’08 elections by margins large enough to overcome their usual election fraud engineering ops, the Rethugs launched a website last May to receive new ideas from the public …

The Summers Of Our Discontent

Three down, two to go. Obama’s daily economic briefing team: Peter Orszag, Christina Romer, Larry Summers, Timothy Geithner, and Jared Bernstein A month after President Obama took office, in a post titled Geithner’s Rescue Plan, I called on him to dump both Geithner and his chief economic architect, Larry Summers: Obama likes to brag that he can walk and chew …

Queen Meg In Wonderland (Update)

Nonnie over at Hysterical Raisins has a great poster up today depicting the California gubernatorial slugfest between Jerry Brown and billionaire Meg Whitman. In my original Queen Meg In Wonderland post three months ago, I noted that she had already donated some $71 million of her own money to her campaign. Nonnie provides an update on that amount by pointing …

The Perils Of HypoChrissy

We can hope, can’t we?  Yes we can. For all her crazy talk, Christine O’Donnell has finally managed to talk her way into becoming a nominee for senator in Delaware,  running as a member of the Republican Party.  Despite canceling appearances on the teevee talking head circuit this morning, early observations are that she can talk the talk; as for …