Free Speech, that curiously American phenomenon, has been reinterpreted in such ways that it’s become, well, not exactly free. You see, the kind of speech that still revels in and enjoys its freedom has an awful lot of paid sponsors, while the kind that just pops out without any corporate backing tends to be retaliated [...]
CHNN NEWS FLASH! Karl Rove said something truthful… I hope you’re sitting down. He called Maureen Dowd, among other true things, “bitter, deranged, snarky, nasty,” and such. All true, but Karl being Karl, then he lied, when he said her nastiness was aimed only at conservatives, something that would surely make the Clintons gawk in [...]
Well, now that our weekly terror incident is behind us, we can start worrying about the next one, because fascist nutcases randomly slaughtering the enemy du jour is clearly the new normal. Ah, those “quaint” days of yore, when the Bush DHS’s report daintily hinted, based on past experience and the ever-present “chatter,” that we [...]
Italians may be yawning more than chattering about the sudden appearance late last week of pictures of nude Italian women, published by the Spanish newspaper El Pais and reportedly taken at Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s Sardinia retreat. The pictures, also distributed widely on Italian news websites – and in defiance of legal threats issued by [...]
Not since he was angling for deferment number five has Dick Cheney’s daughter Liz turned out to be so handy, and like any canny, legally compromised parent would, he has sent her forth, this time in ambulatory form, to get Papa out of some trouble, once again. Since she can talk now, she was fully [...]
You know, Barbara Woodhouse had a point, and darn it, intrepid journalist Brian Williams of NBC, in his first known foray into the steamy underbelly of investigative journalism, got to know Bo today, and provided the most enlightening words about his time with the Obama administration, in terms of paws. “Sum up this guy,” Williams [...]