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Well, frumps, we’re only about eight months away from Armegeddon mid-term elections and, already, the files are bursting with electoral analysis and pundit puffery regarding the possible outcomes of November’s Congressional Fight Club. Every day brings news of another retirement, another departure, another defection to K Street from the hallowed halls that, then, must be [...]
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Well, frumps, as if there hasn’t already been enough predictable blather about Obama’s response to the underpants bomber – or the Democratic response to the Republican response to Obama’s response to the underpants bomber – I figure I might as well jump right in while this is still low-hanging fruit.
In case you were busy with [...]
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Well, frumps, you might have missed it if you blinked but the Capitol hosted yet another Tea Party on Tuesday. Numbers are decidedly down – could be the holiday season, the perma-recession or a scarcity of free bus rides provided by Fat PACs – Tea Party bloggers pegged the number at “a couple thousand;” other [...]
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Well, frumps, I grew up with media events like the Bay of Pigs, a spate of assassinations and the ever-loving Vietnam war – the first US war to be broadcast into American homes on the nightly news – so I have a healthy dose of skepticism about the validity of anything that comes out of [...]
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Well, frumps, by now you might have heard that Lou Dobbs – former CNN talking head, presidential wannabe and all around bon vivant – would like very much to know “who the hell this President thinks he is.” Despite the obvious answer – that he probably thinks he’s the President of the United States or, [...]
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Well, Cheneys, all I can say is “it sucks to be you.” That isn’t a very nice thing to say but since you lowered the common decency standard by several notches, this week – there you have it. It really, really sucks to be a Cheney. Whether you are Darth the uber-Cheney, or Lizzie the [...]
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So, frumps, some of you, I’m sure, are old enough to remember a school of social psychology that advocated pillow-punching to help us get out our latent aggressions. I believe it became popular 1970s-ish, somewhere between Primal Screaming and Dianetics. The basic idea behind pillow-punching was that the pillow would stand in for “the enemy.” [...]
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