From the Department of Revealing Remarks, Phil Gingrey, hyper right-wing Republican from the frightening state of Georgia, speaking about the children of illegal immigrants:
“A lot of their kids are in the school system…They get a free public education without any question.  My constituents don’t want the same thing to happen with regard to health care.”
Could [...]

Repeat, he is not resigning from Focus on the Family because he had sex with Ma Ying-jeou.  That was a DJ from Tennessee who has been expelled from Taiwan because he fucked somebody while knowing he had syphilis…?
Salacious!
Instead, James Dobson is transitioning out of Focus on the Anus because even among evangelical dead-enders, he’s becoming [...]

So Tom Friedman went to Davos and wrote us all a little column about his experiences there.  Well, except that the entire column is devoid of anything to do with being present at the World Economic Forum, unlike this “Editorial Notebook” piece on the ed page, which is highly critical of Davos.  That’s kind of [...]

In addition to bizarre full-page ads like the one I mentioned two days ago, another pleasurable thing about the dead-tree version of newspapers is the ironic juxtaposition of articles and opinion pieces.  For example, on Sunday in hte NYT there was a smart article about how in light of Rod Blagojevich (and the other 3 [...]

Ha ha ha ha ha!
When the Times took him on a little over a year ago, smart people freaked out.  This was of course cited as the secret intolerance of liberals for differing opinions.  But actually, it was mostly because in pursuit of a post-William Safire conservative the NYT mistook “wrong-about-everything” for “right-of-center.”  Worse than [...]

Ahem, if you’re not going to order another soy chai, get out.

Do I really need to feel apologetic to a website cause I got up and did something else?  (I’m being a total grandpa about this, aren’t I?)

So Bush’s farewell speech was tonight.  I can’t think of anything I care about less.  Planes are crashing in the Hudson and even Bank of America is getting some cash from the govt.  If the speech had Sarah Palin in it, I’d be all over it, but I honestly can’t even work up getting my [...]

Someone just got elected to Congress who’s younger than me: Aaron Schock, born May 28, 1981 in Peoria, Illinois.  I’m older by a mere 80 days.  He’s a total asshole Republican, but I have to say, he’s fairly easy on the eye as young right-wingers go.  Not that I want to do him necessarily, but [...]