Tuesday, November 4th, 2014
While walking down the street one day a corrupt Senator was tragically hit by a car and died. His soul arrives in heaven and is met by St. Peter at the entrance. “Welcome to heaven,” says St. Peter. “Before you settle in, it seems there is a problem. We seldom see a high official around
Friday, October 31st, 2014
At the start of the First World War, the big idea guys said that regular people would not march off to fight and kill their neighbors. Instead, they would rise up to overthrow their rulers, and then...
Wednesday, October 29th, 2014
Here’s how my Aug. 11, 2003, column began: “Anyone who believes President Bush’s Africa initiative, including sending U.S. troops to Liberia, will amount to more than a hill of beans is whistling Dixie. Maybe it’s overly pessimistic,...
Wednesday, October 29th, 2014
Enough is enough. At Salon.com I encounter an article lengthily titled, America’s virulent racists: The sick ideas and perverted “science” of the American Renaissance. The burden of the piece is that American Renaissance and its honcho, Jared...
Tuesday, October 28th, 2014
Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all? In an exercise to polish their own halos, this dictionary definition of “Liberal” is making the rounds on social media. But how closely does the reflection...
Tuesday, October 28th, 2014
I like countries. Not because I like imaginary lines drawn around piles of dirt, but rather because I like diverse cultures. When I go to Japan, I want to see Japanese people doing Japanese things. When I...
Saturday, October 25th, 2014
Canadians were shocked in recent weeks as two Canadian soldiers were hit and killed by a car driven by a radicalized Muslim – then a few days later, another radical Muslim went on a shooting spree in...
Saturday, October 25th, 2014
Hillary Clinton told an audience in Massachusetts, “Don’t let anybody tell you that its corporations and businesses that create jobs.” Much to their credit, there was no boisterous applause from the audience for such an inane comment....
Thursday, October 23rd, 2014
The other day I saw one of those guys wearing his pants under his butt, with said butt covered up only by some paisley boxer shorts. I live in Oakland, so this is not a big shocker,...
Tuesday, October 21st, 2014
I’m pushing Mr. X down to Radiology in his wheelchair. He’s telling me the story about the time he drove Huntz Hall around Okinawa for a day on a USO tour. I’ve heard it before, but I...
Monday, October 20th, 2014
Gene Simmons has a lot to say when he isn’t busy spitting blood and playing bass with his rock band KISS. As owner of the Arena football team, L.A. KISS, Simmons wanted to hire Tim Tebow, and...
Saturday, October 18th, 2014
Arguably the most powerful woman in the world, Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen, complained of rising income inequality in a recent speech. In an attempt to make the Fed more likeable, Yellen is simply expressing the popular...
Friday, October 17th, 2014
In what appears to be a staged “news” event, a young man in Liberia is taken to a clinic where he rolls on the ground moaning, “I’m dying, I’m dying…” in full view of a news cameraman....
Wednesday, October 15th, 2014
Among the suggestions being made for getting the American economy moving up again is a reduction in the capital gains tax. But any such suggestion makes people on the left go ballistic. It is “trickle down” economics,...
Thursday, October 30th, 2014
United Breaks Guitars
A musician named Dave Carroll recently had difficulty with United Airlines. Dave spent over 9 months trying to get United to pay for damages caused by baggage handlers to his custom Taylor guitar. During his final exchange...