Okay, I don’t claim this to be an exhaustive review of all the interesting toilets in Europe. It’s not. It’s actually just about two specific ones I saw that made me giggle. The first thing you need to know, if you haven’t spent any time in Europe, is that Europeans generally refer to what Americans call “restrooms” or “bathrooms” as […]

No, not Newt Gingrich. (Newt? Really? Your name is Newt?) No, it’s his sister, Candace. She’s a lesbian that’s been actively involved in LGBT issues as part of the Human Rights Coalition for quite awhile. She has just published an open letter to her brother Newt (dude, Newt?) on the Huffington post and it’s impressive. Dear Newt, I recently had […]

Not surprisingly, it’s written by The Onion: Everybody has this image of “crazy Christians” based on what they hear in the media, but it’s just not true. Most Christians are normal, decent folks. We don’t all blindly follow a bunch of outdated biblical tenets or go all fanatical about every bit of dogma. What I’m trying to say is, don’t […]

Question: What do Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama have in common? These are five of the last six presidents (including President-Elect Obama). Answer: pǝpuɐɥ-ʇɟǝl llɐ ǝɹǝʍ ʎǝɥʇ Notice anyone missing? I’m just sayin’…

After a week of heading down, down, down, on Friday the Dow Jones Industrial Average surged again after about 3 p.m. Just before that surge came the announcement by President-Elect (love that phrase, “President-Elect”) Barack Obama that he was naming New York Fed president Timothy Geithner as his Treasury Secretary. He did that and here was the result: Yet Rush […]

I’ve read and re-read this editorial column by Daniel Henninger and the only synopsis I can come up with is simply that, according to him, “Non-Christians Have Ruined the Economy”. Henninger, a Pulitzer Prize-winning deputy editor for the Wall Street Journal‘s editorial page, in a bizarrely convoluted series of steps, links the move away from saying “”Merry Christmas” to the […]

This is George W. Bush, the president of the United States of America, at the G20 financial summit. As he walks on stage, EVERYBODY is shaking hands with the person in front of him and the person in back of him but NOBODY shakes his hand. Hell, they don’t even look him in the eye. Imagine if Barack Obama was […]

During the week after the election, I attended a number of “victory parties” to celebrate our achievement. Mostly they were organized by people we had spent the previous three months campaigning with. Something about canvassing and phone banking and watch debates together really bonded us and we wanted to get together and have some fun that didn’t involve work! My […]

Bitter much? [Marilyn] Musgrave, a Republican who’s been representing Colorado’s 4th District since 2002, became part of the Republican Casualty List when she lost in a landslide, even after the National Republican Congressional Committee doled out almost a million bucks (reportedly $900,000) for her campaign. Two weeks after the brutal loss, Musgrave still hasn’t called her opponent to concede or […]

Convicted felon, Senator Ted Stevens (Douchebag-AK) has been defeated in his bid to retain his seat in Congress. He was the longest serving felon Senator in the Senate and the longest serving Republican Senator ever. His seat will be filled by Anchorage mayor, Mark Begich, a noted non-felon. And for that, the world rejoiced. Good-bye Senator Douchebag. Enjoy your time […]

I am so ambivalent about the entire discussion surrounding the Big Three auto companies asking for a $25 billion bailout. Truly ambivalent. First of all, I have been a loud and frequent critic of these dinosaurs of the business world. They have relentlessly pumped out gas-guzzling Humscalade after oil-gulping SubdivisionBlazer with absolutely no regard for either the environmental destruction they […]