Monthly Archives: June 2010

But, like stoopid people everywhere, she can’t admit that she doesn’t know (and isn’t interested in doing her homework, and the McCain campaign team made clear after the election in 2008). For some reason, ignorant people are desperately afraid of not appearing to know EVERYTHING, which is, itself, the hallmark of ignorance. Continue reading →

Myth Alaska (and before that, the “cowboy” mythology) is based on the indispensable notion of the self-made man, the rugged pioneer, the indomitable mountain man, The Noble Savage. Continue reading →

Wouldn’t it be funny if we held Fox News “journalists” and rightie bloggers with Ford and Volkswagen and Hilton Hotels ads on their blogs to the same standard that we insist David Weigel had violated. Continue reading →

And, I am certain that virtually everybody in Wasilla has been interviewed, pushed, prodded, asked, with a “hey buddy!” or otherwise had their lives impacted by armies of reporters working the endless soap-opera that is Sarah Palin and the rest of her wacky Clan. But I will hold the citizens of Wasilla harmless, and leave them be. Continue reading →

Rebels without a cause, but WITH a mall hangout… Continue reading →

It was the problem of mythology. To them, Laramie was this amazing place where Kit Carson and Daniel Boone had arm-wrestled with Sitting Bull and Geronimo over the rights to the gold mines that General George Armstrong Custer was protecting from the raids of Jesse James and Billy the Kid. Continue reading →

But, the Congress has decreed that we “preserve” the Salton Sea by reducing its saltiness. And, that we must “remediate” its fundamental “unique ecosystem”ness.
Because we’re fighting nature in order to preserve nature. Continue reading →

The present crisis can at this moment only be met by the action of the company which is ultimately responsible for it, and that action should be taken without an hour’s delay. Through the Department of State I am endeavoring to secure such action by the Mexican Government as will enable Congress in its turn to act. But at present Congress can do nothing without such action by the Mexican Government. Continue reading →

Well, we’re no longer in a “time of unprecedented success and prosperity throughout our land,” (Gee. Wonder who might have been responsible for THAT?) but the White House Commission on Remembrance continues to carry out its mandate for a “National Moment of Remembrance.” Continue reading →

I can’t find a lot of humor in madness, prejudice and outright bigotry.

My bad. Continue reading →

You might notice that Howie Rich had sunk a lot of money in the PREVIOUS SC Governor, Mark Sanford, who was being groomed to run as a Libertarian Republican presidential candidate before his unfortunate Appalachian Hiking. After Sanford’s fall from grace, Andre Bauer, the Lt. Gov. became the heir apparent, and Marchant moved into his inner circle. Continue reading →