11:33 AM 12/13/2012
Over two decades ago, an Ohio man bludgeoned his wife to death with a banjo (two banjos to be specific --- he broke the first one). According to the Cox News Service report, neighbors were shocked. Other than playing “Fox on the Run” over and over again while attempting to sing all three parts of the harmony by himself, the man seemed normal.
12:30 PM 11/30/2012
Declaring the “world has become so negative,” this week former Major League Baseball star Barry Bonds said he will be “very sad” if he does not make it into baseball’s Hall of Fame when the new inductees are announced in January. It's interesting that he would claim that the world is "negative," considering how many people think he would have tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) during the final few years of his career.
10:20 AM 10/31/2012
Walter Mondale once said that the only reason we have elections is to confirm the accuracy of polls.
4:02 PM 09/20/2012
Last week, business took me to two bordering states with drastically different perspectives on the upcoming presidential election. The contrast was stark.
4:47 PM 08/22/2012
It happens each election cycle: some politician makes a comment so stupid that the fallout essentially ends his campaign, whether he drops out or not. These disastrous quotes generally go way beyond Dan Quayle’s spelling abilities, Al Gore inventing the Internet or Joe Biden, well, being Joe Biden. The quotes that cut the electorate to the core are those that force a “WTF” to pop into voters’ minds every time they see the numbskull on television or read about him in the newspaper.
1:04 AM 07/30/2012
Silly season in presidential politics usually doesn’t begin until Labor Day. Stupid actions by candidates (and the reporters who cover them) are typically reserved for a time after seersucker suits and linen pants are tucked away.
6:19 PM 07/05/2012
In the winter of 1972-73, Larry Womack hated his job as an insurance salesman so badly that he spent most of his evenings teaching himself sculpture.
5:47 PM 06/18/2012
John Edwards and Roger Clemens are jerks.
3:27 PM 06/03/2012
I had just landed in the Big Apple this weekend when I saw a commercial on an airport television that caught my eye.
2:01 PM 05/23/2012
While covering Kentucky’s primary for a local media outlet last night, I was given the assignment of covering the victory party for “Uncommitted.”
12:23 PM 04/23/2012
The Americans press is all atwitter over the fact that a bunch of United States Secret Service agents and soldiers apparently engaged the services of hookers in a country where prostitution is legal.
3:12 PM 02/10/2012
This week, JCPenney introduced Ellen DeGeneres as its new company spokesperson. One Million Moms, an anti-gay activist organization, immediately jumped to the defense of self-righteous homophobes everywhere and called upon JCPenney to ax Ellen from the campaign because she is a lesbian. JCPenney responded by saying they were sticking by their decision to hire her.
10:28 AM 01/23/2012
It’s not a stretch to say that many people my age (read: old) are interested in politics today because of the late Pat Paulsen.
1:17 PM 01/13/2012
Where do totalitarian leaders go for state visits these days?
3:01 AM 12/28/2011
A Hindu and a Muslim walk into Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s office and tell her they have an act.
10:17 AM 12/15/2011
This week two organizations, the Heartland Alliance’s National Immigration Justice Center and the National Coalition for Human Rights, issued a joint report entitled “Not Too Late for Reform” calling on the Obama administration to close several immigration detention facilities. The two organizations are advocacy groups that assist immigrants (they don’t use the term “illegal” on their websites) by several methods, including by providing direct legal services.
4:39 PM 12/01/2011
Finally, Occupy Wall Street has a voice.
10:39 AM 11/10/2011
NORTH POLE --- After two months of protests, members of the movement “Occupy Santa Land” declared victory today when the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) imposed a 15 cent use tax on all Christmas trees sold over the holidays. Meeting the demands of the protesters, funds raised from the tax will be used to redistribute toys from certain children that had been pre-determined by their social upbringing to be nice to those forced by their environment to be naughty.
4:45 PM 10/25/2011
I first met P.J. O’Rourke in 1988 following the release of Holidays in Hell. P.J. was Washington’s hippest journalist, writing for Rolling Stone magazine. Holidays in Hell was his personal account of conflicts that he had covered in the shitholes of the world. Making points with his biting humor, he wrote about places like Lebanon, El Salvador and Korea.
