Gloating on the Day Shift!

Just knocked off my last night shift.

(Tax preparers have a somewhat twisted sense of humor.)
Now for a well-deserved nap.
“Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many [...]

Why Add My One-liner to the Humoral Pyre?

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I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
— Winston Churchill

If, just to piss off Christopher Hitchens, there really IS a God, then He’s laughing His ass off right now.
After all, if he couldn’t laugh at the folly of the Human Race, then he’d [...]

Tax Freedom Day, Progressive Style

I don’t know about you, but I don’t consider taxes to be theft. I like to go around and see what I’ve bought with my tax dollars. All of my tax dollars go to the Hubble Space Telescope, of course, and the pictures that they continue to bring back is a source of ongoing joy [...]

Blogosphere Invited To Pull Its Head Out Of Its Collective Ass

I would like to cordially invite the Greater Blogosphere to grow the fuck up and pull its head out of its collective ass. See the monkeys capering at Memeorandum.

The latest tempest in a teapot involves an alleged sleight to “small town” America. Naturally, the fuckwits doing the “interpreting” either can’t read English or, more likely, [...]

Half of the Certainties

Four more days. Then, life returns to being good.
Courage.

Interview? Moi? Mercy!

I was interviewed by a Pakistani Blog (as near as I can tell) whose grammatical constructions proved their authenticity. They were nice enough to think that I was important enough to interview, so they must be a top drawer publication, right? Either that, or the old Groucho line that I wouldn’t want to [...]

Randi Rhodes - Breaking Update!

(Hunh?) Well, “updated breaking” seemed excessive.

Rhodes at the Oregon HempFest, 2006
Joe Gandelman at The Moderate Voice is breaking the story that Randi Rhodes has DEFINITELY left AirAmerica.
Campaign 2008 has now claimed its first talk show host for going over the line: Air America talk show host Randi Rhodes, who was suspended from the progressive [...]

It’s TAX Season!

Kinda like that ionization blackout when a spacecraft re-enters the atmosphere: We’re on the high burn to The Ides of April (My wife has a tax preparation business, and I find myself enmeshed in it.)
Remember only CAESAR had to beware the Ides of March.
For the rest of it, it’s the next month, April 15th.
Thus saith [...]

Petraeus Lives Down To His Name

I watched the Watergate Hearings, and I listened to and watched the Iran-Contra Hearings, and danged if I didn’t smell that same potent whiff of Republican bullshit wafting from the multiple hearings of Petraeus & Doofus, the latest staged Bush media event to hit Capitol Hill.

Naturally, Bush staged a photo-op to hand a Medal of [...]

One Question About The War

I guess I just don’t get it.

If we just left and walked away and left the whole Iraq problem to the Iraqis to solve, that would be “irresponsible”?

Hillary Clinton and the Blustery Day

Oregon Gov. Kulongosky at Left
[With apologies to A.A. Milne]
Let’s see. South Eugene High School is, I am reliably informed, a venue where JFK campaigned and Jerry Garcia played. It holds about 2500 people. (Which is about the number of people that Barack Obama’s speech at 9,000 capacity Mac Court turned away last month). The first [...]