17 Articles

Monday, June 18, 2007
Ironic Humor on C-SPAN Thanks to Some Callers
(1 comments) C-SPAN is not noted for levity, but sometimes callers violate the unwritten "no-joke rule" and inject some level of ironic humor.

Thursday, June 14, 2007
Whizing Through Life: A Tribute to the Cheez Whiz King
Edwin Traisman, 91, the inventer of Cheez Whiz and McDonald's secret process for freezing French fries died this week. But while Edwin dines in some fast-food franchise in the sky, his legacy continues to be withering away on tasteless life-

Wednesday, May 30, 2007
The Irony of Death and the Minimum Wage
It's sickeningly ironic that millions of lives -- their very subsistence -- depends on the deaths of thousands of Americans serving in Iraq.

Saturday, May 26, 2007
Stephen Hawking: I Need a New Law of Physics
(2 comments) Where's Stephen Hawking when I need him, because there aughta be a new law of physics.

Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Calling All Czars
Stephen J. Hadley, George Bush's national security adviser, says he doesn't have star power, of, let's say, a Simon Cowell, to go places and influence people, so he has launched his own search for an "idol" to be the Iraq War Czar with "star power." So far the response has been a resounding...nyet!

Tuesday, May 1, 2007
O'Reilly: V-Tech a Nation-changing Event...Not!
It's never too late to talk about the ramifications of the Virginia Tech massacre and how to avoid another similar occurrence, if at all possible. "If at all possible" are the operative words, because when dealing with the "human factor", nothing is predictable or preventable. While saner heads often prevail during discussions of vital issues, there's always one person we can count on to get it wrong: Bill O'Reilly.

Thursday, April 26, 2007
Jon vs. John: And the Winner is...
Jon Stewart is always the winner when he hosts a guest with whom he vehemently disagrees, because he is always takes the high ground by being polite and treating his guests with dignity.

Thursday, April 19, 2007
Bush: The Last Person You'd Want at Your Child's Funeral
(4 comments) Bush can drop everything to race to Virginia with all the other politicos for a compassion photo-op, or race back to D.C. to sign Terri Schiavo legislation, but he can't go to the funerals of servicemen he sent to Iraq to be killed.

Wednesday, April 4, 2007
No! To All the Political Haymakers Who Said the Edwards Were Making Political Hay...
For John Edwards to give up his campaign because of his wife's cancer, as the likes of Rush Limbaugh and others have suggested, would be giving in to all the rightwing banshee-screamers and to the disease itself.

Wednesday, March 28, 2007
O'Reilly Doesn't Give a Bat's Ass About Walter Reed Scandal
(1 comments) All those who agree with Bill O'Reilly that the Walter Reed scandal is "BORING", please take one step forward, say aye and hang your heads in abject shame. If you agree, you've proved that like O'Reilly, you don't give a bat's ass about our troops.

Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Finally, Left Coasters Will Have Their Day and Their Say
It's official and set in legislative concrete. Left Coasters in California will no longer be inconsequential and have virtually no say in who the presidential nominees will be, nor will the state be used only as a gigantic ATM machine for candidates.

Saturday, March 17, 2007
Constitutional Amendment XXVIII (2007)
(2 comments) There aughta be a law; a Constitutional amendment forcing legislators to do their jobs of representing the People; write clear concise laws; and make it felonious derecliction of duty if they do not read a law before voting on it.

Friday, March 9, 2007
Operation Helmet: The Life You Save might Save Another!
When the government fails to protect the soldiers it sends into battle, it's up to private citizens to step into the fray. With the public's help, Dr. Robert Meaders, USN Ret, founder of Operation Helmet has made it a priority to see the troops get proper helmet upgrade kits for FREE.

Tuesday, March 6, 2007
This Time It's Bush Spitting on the Soldiers
(4 comments) Iraq is not Vietnam, but our soldiers are still being spat upon, only this time it's by their own President.

Thursday, March 1, 2007
So What if Mitt Romney's Grandfathers Had a Few Extra Wives
The world is going to come to an end, or if nothing else, wobble on its axis, because Mitt Romney's great- and great-great-grandfathers had a couple of extra wives.

Monday, February 26, 2007
Battle of the Bulb
(2 comments) While many of us would like to be part of the coalition of the willing to be energy efficient-minded, they better try to make it easy for us to be green.

Friday, February 23, 2007
Merck Can't Get Its Way, But For How Long?
(1 comments) I'm skeptical. The pharmaceutical giant Merck said it has withdrawn its lobbying efforts to make its cervical cancer vaccine manditory for young girls, due to numerous objections from a few zealous parents who are against it.