“Where do we go from here? The battles done and we kind of won. So we sound our victory cheer. Where do we go from here?” – Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Episode ‘Once more with feeling’. So where do we go from here? That is the question that Republicans must ask themselves after Tuesday’s midterm [...]

Like moths to a flame, members of the Tea Party movement have found themselves attracted to a dream ticket of Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck to square off against incumbent Barack Obama and thus restore the nation’s honor. Restoring honor apparently has something to do with stemming the tide of marriage-minded gay Mexican Muslim Marxists [...]

Separated at birth? Sally Field as Gidget (1965) and Tea Party Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell (2010). Share and Enjoy:

The driver of the 2017 BMW sedan was hit with twin blasts of Arizona heat as he rolled down the electric window. Some of the heat came from the blazing sun on a roadway outside Flagstaff. The rest of the heat was personified by an Arizona State Trooper who had just pulled him over. “What [...]

Only a few minutes remain in 2007, so it’s high time to take a look back and give some well-earned recognition to those people without whose foibles the past year would not have been possible. The It Takes A Village Award to Lynne Spears, who apparently needs an entire village to keep track of the [...]

Ah, Christmastime. A season that holds enough innate magic to redeem fictional baddies such as Ebenezer Scrooge or the Grinch. It’s the time of year when even the most secular of secular humanists is supposed to be overcome by the sentiment of “peace on earth and goodwill toward men.” Unless, of course, you happen to [...]

Captain America is coming back. And this time he’s packing heat. The star-spangled hero returns to action in January. The former Captain America, Steve Rogers, was killed off in March after leading a protest against a law in the Marvel universe that required all those with superhuman abilities to register with the government. He was [...]

After listening to Rush Limbaugh’s non-apology to US soldiers who don’t support the War on Terror, and after listening to Ann Coulter’s non-defense of a type of antisemitism that hasn’t been part of mainstream thought since about 1590 or so, I have come to the following conclusion: Everything the right says to tear down the [...]

You can’t build a movement on a philosophy that ultimately consumes its members. This is the lesson that has been lost on The Imperial Klans of America, who have set up shop in the tiny Western Kentucky city of Dawson Springs. The group, which claims at least 23 chapters in 17 states, has taken over [...]

Much has been written about the upcoming reports on the US military efforts in Iraq. Words like redeployment and withdraw have been bandied about, but the favorite in the language of conservatives is surrender. Typical usage: “The defeatist democrats want us to surrender in Iraq.” But the literal definition of surrender at least suggests that [...]