I don’t know about you, but I personally feel so much safer, so much better about myself, so much prouder of America, now that, out in Virginia, 41-year old Teresa Lewis, convicted of the 2002 contract-killing of her husband and stepson, has been forced to ride the needle. Bumping off a woman just might help [...]

Like Christine O’Donnell, I also hung out with some strange folks in school. Also, I never was nor am I now a member of a coven.  Glad to hear she isn’t either. My friends, myself included, DID however masturbate now and then. Don’t want to think about that subject in regard to her. But while [...]

No question that Democrats are in deep, deep do-do.  Yes, the rise of the Tea Party is bad news for the GOP establishment.  But come the general elections, there is little evidence that “moderates” and “independents” will turn to the Democrats.  They most likely will stay home or even more likely will wind up voting [...]

As far back as ten years ago, an old pal of mine — much, much warmer to the Cuban regime than I — described Cuba as a sort of jet airliner, circling, circling and circling; a society up in the air and unsure where and how it was going to land. Looks now like the [...]

There are few American politicians who have been as consistently vile as the dishonored, disgraced, philandering and overtly corrupt Newt Gingrich.  Now, we can add “fuckin’ nuts” to that list of modifiers.  I have long held a great distaste for this obnoxious babbler and I forcefully expressed this view in the L.A Times when he [...]

Sorry to interrupt the great, national narrative but the date September 11th has multiple and complex meanings for me.  I share the pain we all felt in 2001.  But, for me, the greater pain was inflicted on that same date in 1973 when a similarly violent act of terror and brutality touched off a series [...]

As some of our commenters have noted, Fidel Castro is back and mouthing off a bit too much. Some are applauding him for his new found frankness. I, on the other hand, have maintained for some time that the old man has sort of lost it — babbling on about conspiracy theories and the Bilderbergs. [...]

The now world-infamous “Pastor” Terry Jones, who we learn was driven out of Germany by allegations of lying, fraud, deception and abuse, has called off his Koran barbecue set for Saturday.  No one knows exactly why. Maybe because of the visit the FBI paid him, or because he was talked down in a phone call [...]

Hang on a sec while I crank up my 8-track version of Lee Greenwood singing “Proud to Be An American.“  This is truly a magnificent moment in our national history. A bible-thumping wing-nut pastor with a Florida flock of fifty, is fixin’ to burn some books.  Terry Jones is gonna be cookin’ up some Korans [...]

Who knew that Sarah Palin was actually the second stupidest pol in America?  She’s been dethroned by her Arizona colleague, the un-elected Republican Governor Jan Brewer.  She makes Mama Grizzly look as smart as Paris Hilton!  Lots of reports are saying that Brewer suffered a “freeze” during her opening statement in the Arizona gubernatorial debate.  [...]