35 Articles

Wednesday, November 25, 2009
I Could be Even More Thankful
A short, satirical to-do list for the holiday season. Go ahead, it's okay. You can laugh and still get to heaven one fine day. It might even help.

Sunday, November 15, 2009
Nadal Hasan and the Vices and Virtues of Political Correctness.
(3 comments) A little love for the unloved virtues of political correctness. How they can help us mitigate the consequences of Nadal Hasan's attack, if properly used. And how they can blind us to the naked truth, if not.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009
The Real Lesson of Tuesday's Election: DO Something
The real takeaway from Tuesday's election. Why it says nothing. And why the Democrats better listen.

Sunday, October 25, 2009
How to Get Out of Afghanistan
(1 comments) Never let a good crisis go to waste. A crisis is coming in Afghanistan. And a chance to get out, if we don't waste it.

Saturday, October 17, 2009
Roughing the Rusher
Rush Limbaugh takes one for the team.

Saturday, October 10, 2009
Who Roots for America?
The revolution we started in 1776 needn't end in failure. America is still a place we can make, if we root for it. But who roots for America anymore?

Tuesday, September 29, 2009
No, You Can't
(3 comments) The world is breaking. Chaos beckons, and Barack Obama, the man who gave us hope when he said "Yes, we can," now needs to speak a new phrase. He may have to say it to our generals, he may have to say it to Ahmadinejad, he may have to say it to us. "No, you can't."

Monday, September 14, 2009
The Magical Power of Sports
Myth, memory, sports, cynicism and the Great Boston Molasses Disaster

Sunday, September 6, 2009
Calling all Commies: We Need You!
(1 comments) Rx. A prescription for progress. Take two communism tablets and call me in the morning.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Ted Kennedy: The Last of His Kind
Of "compounds," class traitors, public servants and the death of an era.

Thursday, August 20, 2009
You blame Obama, I blame You
(12 comments) "Let's Blame Obama": How progressive passivity fails the future and hands it to the forces of reaction. You can blame the president, or you can try getting off the couch and doing something.

Wednesday, August 12, 2009
The Government Conspiracy Agency: Annual Report
(5 comments) Leaked document tells all! Finally, the truth about all the lies our government has been feeding us!

Thursday, August 6, 2009
Republican Autoerotic Asphyxiation
(28 comments) The sad, slow suicide of a once-great American Party. And why we need not fear it.

Wednesday, July 29, 2009
The Real Truth Behind Gates-gate
What really counted in the Henry Gates affair wasn't his race. It was his celebrity.

Monday, July 20, 2009
Cover Everybody
(11 comments) There is only one moral imperative that must be obeyed in health care reform. Cover everybody. Every single American. And do it now.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Forty Years and Counting: The Death of the High Frontier
(7 comments) Forty years ago we walked on the moon. Lately, not so much. Is the High Frontier dead and closed forever?

Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Satirists on Strike!
(1 comments) The vicissitudes of satire & political commentary.

Thursday, June 18, 2009
The Pragdealist Alternative: A Declaration of Independence
(2 comments) Move over, Liberals and Conservatives. Make room. There is a new player at the table and he's going to change the game. Meet the Pragdealist.

Saturday, June 6, 2009
We Are All Libertarians, Even Dick Cheney
We need rights to protect us from others and laws to protect others from us. An article in which Dick Cheney appears as a good guy, despite himself.

Saturday, May 30, 2009
Sonia Sotomayor and GOP Self-Immolation
How Barack Obama used Sonia Sotomayor to send the GOP into a graveyard spiral.

Sunday, May 24, 2009
Much ado about everything
(3 comments) The secret news they don't want you to hear, revealed, manufactured and deconstructed!

Thursday, May 7, 2009
Swine Flu Hate Speech
(1 comments) Out of the sty and into the streets! The Porcine International Goodwill Society, or P.I.G.S, demands an end to the hateful hate speech of a hateful humanity!

Tuesday, April 28, 2009
The Great Obama Rebranding: Part two
(7 comments) How Barack Obama is repairing the tattered American brand and how it got broken in the first place. Hint: Neither extreme is going to like it.

Friday, April 17, 2009
The Great Obama Rebranding: Part one
Tea Parties, The Conservative Follies, and a HUGE repair job for the American Brand.

Monday, April 13, 2009
How the world should handle Kim Jong-Il
Another dud, another day. Let's try something different with Dear Leader. (humor)

Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Good Things in Bad Times
Hope, Baseball and the bittersweet lessons of the season. All is not lost because much of what we lost we needed to lose. But will we find the right things?

Saturday, March 21, 2009
Dick Cheney was Absolutely Right, and Other News
(6 comments) A stalwart defense of our ex-VP, the House of Saud, and Ann Coulter, proving that March Madness is not confined to the basketball court.

Thursday, March 12, 2009
The American Institute of Plug Pullers wants you!
(2 comments) How to survive the crash and come out smelling like a rose! A glorious new future awaits you!

Friday, March 6, 2009
The Crash, the Panic, the Depression.
(5 comments) The panic of 2008, the depression of 2009-? An historical, not to say hysterical, analysis of previous economic catastrophes going back to 1819. And why Obama needs to keep his powder dry and coffers full if we are going to survive this one.

Friday, February 27, 2009
Mostly, We are Idiots. So How Did We Elect a Genius?
(45 comments) A snotty rant against the blogosphere, followed by a cheerful gush about America. Warning! Contains objectionable opinion about online morons, from which the author does not exclude himself.

Thursday, February 19, 2009
Geert Wilder and the Swat Valley Follies: Tolerance or Cowardice?
Tolerance is a virtue. Cowardice isn't. We are using the former as an excuse for the latter. As our gutless reaction to recent events in the Swat Vally of Pakistan and the British parliament sadly proves.

Saturday, February 14, 2009
Michael Phelps as Jackie Robinson: Obama as FDR: Drugism as Racism.
Drug prohibition is destroying the world. It's a man-made catastrophe. History will judge us harshly for it. If we live that long.

Thursday, February 5, 2009
Dangerous Republican Irrelevancy
(6 comments) The Republican party is dying. And it's killing us.

Sunday, February 1, 2009
We need a bubble!
(4 comments) We'll never get out of our economic tailspin unless we do this. Pronto.

Friday, January 30, 2009
Think Big Obama
What Obama should do now.