“The cupboard is bare!” announces the distinguished minority leader, embarrassing all of us who at some time or other used to call ourselves “Democrats.” This whole sequestration thing is bad, says Rep. Nancy Pelosi, because there is, you know, in the whole federal budget nothing left to cut! Nothing! No more fat! It’s all muscle…
Legless Lizards? Oh Yeah! We Got Legless Lizards!
Fuck yeah we do. Four new varieties in California! Four! Used to be, people thought there was only one legless lizard in Sunny Cal—anniella pulchra*—but thanks to totally cool legless lizards dudes Theodore Papenfuss at the University of California at Berkeley’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and geologist James Parham from the California State University Fullerton,…
Jew Jokes? Oh Yeah! We Got Jew Jokes!
https://youtu.be/bO-e31SHUfw Fuck yeah we do, thanks to John “Funnyman” Whitbeck, 10th Congressional District Republican Committee chairman, appearing nitely at the Plantation Club in Confederateburg, Va. Johnnie’s latest gutbuster, shown above, involves the “head of the Jewish faith” presenting the new pope with the bill for the last supper. Funny, John, funny! You’re a funny man!…
Larry Summers: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Well, Larry is out, and I won’t miss him. Larry was, hopefully, the last of the shameless Wall Street Democrats—at least, the last of the shameless Wall Street Democrats to be considered for a top position in the Obama Administration this year. To a great extent, Larry was pilloried for, in effect, being too much…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “I’m guessing, a rough day on the Street. Am I right, sweet cheeks?” “You damn well better use the side window, baby cakes.” “Looks like someone’s little poker game got a little crazy.” “I ordered a stripper, not an accountant. Get the fuck out of here.” “Hmmmm. Someone else who’s decided that…
The Silence of the Hawks
One would have thought that Vladimir Putin’s* end zone victory dance in the New York Times would have produced an outraged chorus of right-wing “I told you so’s” loud enough to be heard on Mars—if, contrary to fact, sound waves could travel through a vacuum. But even they could, they still wouldn’t, because the right’s…
Back to Square One in Syria? Has It Come To This?
We can’t be that lucky. We can’t work out a face-saving, quasi-significant, or even pseudo-significant, deal with bad boys Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin that will actually “solve” the chemical weapons “crisis” in Syria, can we? Life isn’t that nice. Well, probably not, but if Congress can delay having to make an unpleasant decision for…
President Obama’s Excellent Syrian Adventure
Was there ever a schadenfreude so multi-faceted? One would think that the Republican Establishment would be roaring with delight as the leading lights of the Obama Administration take turns shooting the President in the foot—Secretary of State John Kerry and National Security Advisor Susan Rice in particular lying their bureaucratic buttocks off, frenziedly concocting non-existent…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “It’s called a casting couch, big boy, and I don’t have to tell you what it’s for. Do I get the part, or do I get the part?” Dr. Kronsky abandoned his “standing therapy” with great reluctance. “Because you’re a lousy lay, that’s why.” “It’s kind of like a singing telegram except…
Barack Obama: Not without guile, not without stupidity
What a difference a day, or at least a couple, make. I just finished patting Obama on the shoulder for pulling a fast one on the Republicans. Now it seems he’s doing his level best to live up to the caricature the right wing has drawn of him—an empty suit in search of a teleprompter….