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
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
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
There is a scene from the Naked Gun 2 1/2 that takes place in a lonely bar. The camera pans over some sad sack drinkers and then across the odd artwork on the walls. They are posters of famous disasters; the Hindenburg explosion, the Titanic sinking and then…a smiling Michael Dukakis. The reference to his 1988 presidential campaign … Continue reading
Many of us are stunned by the attempted assassination of a Congresswoman in Arizona, but should we be? The intended victim, Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), had already spoken last year about being on Sarah Palin’s infamous “hit list.” You may recall, this list showed 20 members of Congress that Palin wanted to be removed. It included a map of the … Continue reading
Consider the recent run of Dancing With The Stars to be a proxy for the upcoming Republican presidential slugfest. As usual on DWTS, I had no idea who half the “stars” were. I did recognize Bristol Palin though. It’s hard not to these days as the Palin family brand has become more ubiquitous than McDonalds. Her last … Continue reading
Delaware accomplished something yesterday that it hasn’t done since it was the first state to ratify the Constitution in 1787; it got mentioned in the news. Since then it’s been a long dry spell for media coverage (other than when a favorite son named Joe Biden, who was primarily known for his bloviating in Congress, was … Continue reading
The daughter of a friend of mine recently graduated from high school. During her time in school she participated in exchange programs in Japan, Israel and England. I think it’s great that American students learn about other cultures. One area that is overlooked in this process is other American cultures. I’ve travelled all over the US for the last four … Continue reading
On a recent jaunt around Idaho and Montana I noticed a lot more anti-government lawn signs and bumper stickers than I usually encounter in my purple state of Pennsylvania. Here are a few that caught my eye. Leaning against a barn I saw a piece of white plywood hand painted in black: “Keep the governments hands off … Continue reading
I recently watched a movie called Idiocracy. It takes place 500 years in the future and is scarier than any horror movie, those are fake and this is all too real. The basic premise is that the type of people who are guests on the Jerry Springer Show are popping out kids at a higher rate than … Continue reading
Former Sen. John McCain, who foisted Sarah Palin on the unsuspecting American public, has died. Despite his record as a war hero and one time independent voice in Congress, he will be remembered primarily for the damage he did to his beloved country by rashly selecting the mostly unknown and thoroughly unprepared Alaska governor and thrusting her onto the national political scene. … Continue reading
