Yesterday the Arizona state legislature passed a new law requiring that all candidates for president be circumcised and provide a certificate to that effect. If they are unable to offer said certificate they will have to undergo an inspection before the Arizona Surgeon General to prove that they have in fact been clipped. The bill requiring candidates to expose … Continue reading
In honor of tax returns being due this week I have to get something off my chest. Taxes are too freakin’ complicated! An H&R Block ad claimed there were 1,700 changes to the tax code in 2009 alone. This year’s form has a spot for a deduction if you took in someone from the midwest. What the hell is … Continue reading
My how time flies. I hadn’t realized until seeing the Google Doodle today that it was the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s first successful manned space flight. I say successful because rumors persist that an earlier flight had crashed but the Soviet-run media never ran with the story. Back then they wouldn’t announce a launch until it … Continue reading
The latest trend among locavores is to only eat food that was raised humanely and grown within 10 miles of their cutlery drawer. These actions will help promote local farms and ease the pollution created by transporting food thousands of miles to its final destination. This sounds all well and fine but now we are witnessing a wave of … Continue reading
In the latest budget battle the Republicans are finally living up to their oft stated, but little deserved, title of fiscal conservatives. Or so it would seem. The reality is that the Republicans are not making much of a dent in the budget at all. Instead they are seeking to axe the low hanging fruit … Continue reading
UPDATE: Paul started his run on Friday, April 1st. We were part of an enthusiastic crowd that was there to send him off in a blinding snowstorm which seemed to be an April Fool’s Day Joke played by Mother Nature. Paul with all his supplies The 1st mile, only 999 to go You can track … Continue reading
In a marvelous display of hypocrisy, even for a thrice married family values candidate, Newt Gingrich was for the Libya no-fly zone, before he was against it. Let’s watch the videotape: Even by Gingrich standards this was a pretty quick about face. The other GOP candidate rising in the current polls is Donald Trump, also coincidentally … Continue reading
Sarah Palin will run for President of the United States in 2012 as an independent party candidate. I don’t know why I didn’t see this before. It helps to explain her acting coy about a bid, her avoidance of the traditional trips to Iowa and New Hampshire and her increasing willingness to stick it in … Continue reading
Hi folks, I’m wearing my curmudgeon hat today and, as you can see, it’s a little tight so please bear with me. I was eating breakfast at a diner yesterday when I noticed a cute three-year old boy sitting at the table next to me. He was playing with the little cream containers and then tossing them on the … Continue reading
Don’t order a Black and Tan. Now that wasn’t so difficult. I wish I had read this before I left for my recent trip to Ireland. Unfortunately I learned this lesson, as I so often do, the hard way. (Continue reading)
It’s too easy to pick on the continuing gaffes of the embryonic Bachmann campaign. At a recent speech in New Hampshire she mentioned how that state started the American Revolution at the battle of Lexington and Concord. Not to put too fine a point on it but those battles occurred over the state line in Massachusetts. I guess … Continue reading
The following was passed along to me by a reader from the great state of Ohio. Thanks Rod. 1. The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country. 2. The Washington Post is read by people who think they run the country. 3. The New York Times is … Continue reading
