Good evening, Mr. Obama and Mr. Romney. I"ll be your moderator tonight. I hope our audience welcomes you with as much warmth as they can manage. Before I proceed with my questions, you should know a few things about me. I didn"t vote in 2008. I didn"t vote for my current congressman, ...
While 22-year-old Klein Michael Thaxton was holding a hostage in a Pittsburgh high-rise on Friday, he allowed the world to peek into his troubled soul via the miracle of Facebook. As he held his victim at bay with a hammer and knife, Thaxton also watched the hostage crisis unfold on television. ...
There is no longer a need for satire these days because the world ridicules itself. Modern American culture is a self-parody set on autopilot. The latest round of nuttiness involves public education and peanut butter. The humble peanut, you see, has become politicized. It is now a “hate ...
False allegations about the propaganda technique known as the "Big Lie" have been repeated ad nauseam to the point where, with eye-gouging irony, it has all congealed into a fresh new Big Lie of its own. Two Democratic Party spokespeeps recently perpetuated the astoundingly pervasive myth ...
Shortly before the stroke of midnight on August 24 in Savannah, GA, a young interracial couple was strolling downtown through a former slave market called Ellis Square. Twenty-three-year-old Andrew Quade, the white boyfriend of a black female named Olufisayo Bakre, would leave in an ambulance after ...
Good evening, Mr. Obama and Mr. Romney. I"ll be your sole interrogator tonight. I hope the audience welcomes you with as much warmth as they can manage. Before I proceed with my questions, you should know a few things about me. I didn"t vote in 2008. I didn"t vote for my current ...
A recent article in The Huffington Post, that eternal blast of lavender-scented, dreamcatcher-filtered wind from the left, recently suggested that America needs a Voter IQ Law. Apparently a flaccid stab at Swiftian satire, the article was in response to recent laws requiring basic ID for voters to ...
The email challenge came like a squirrel defiantly placing an acorn on its shoulder and daring me to knock it off: “respond to this damn article.” The damn article was from Forbes, and I’ll be damned if the headline didn’t claim that Barack Obama was the “Smallest ...
A Russian judge is expected to deliver a verdict on Friday in the highly publicized show trial of three members of Pussy Riot, who"ve already won a cultural war of sorts by forcing broadcasters across the globe to say the word "pussy" on TV. The trio of young, unscrubbed radical ...
In politics as in life, the squeaky wheel usually gets the grease, but the other three wheels are finally telling the squeaky wheel to shut the hell up. Fast food and public protests typically hold as much appeal for me as rectal cancer, yet last week I simultaneously exposed myself to fast food ...
