The Boss Backs Obama

Dear Friends and Fans: Like most of you, I’ve been following the campaign and I have now seen and heard enough to know where I stand. Senator Obama, in my view, is head and shoulders above the rest. He has the depth, the reflectiveness, and the resilience to be our next President. He speaks to the America I’ve envisioned in …

The Party So Fun We Invited A Horse’s Ass

Slate’s Jacob Weisberg and author of a new book, The Bush Tragedy, reveals how Bush cannot always distinguish between what he wants to see and what is there to be seen. A Charge To Keep W.H.D. Koerner Texas Governor George would describe the painting, A Charge To Keep, hanging on his office wall to visitors Like this: “I thought I …

Dick

TRAITOR Dick Belated apologies to Dick Bain, and all other Dicks everywhere. Everyone named Dick should not have to be identified with war criminal Dick Cheney. Henceforth this portrait will be known as “TRAITOR Dick.” My apologies for any unintentional smearing of your good name; same goes for all the other swinging Dicks out there.

Sponge Mike Squarepants

Sponge Mike Squarepants What kind of person misunderestimates the country’s willingness to amend the United States Constitution to be more in line with the (your most trusted version here): ____________ version of the Bible? That would be Sponge Mike Squarepants. Sponge Mike, who believes in miracles. In fact, he’d like to be the recipient of a grand miracle to win …

Telewision

“They’re just people, they watch telewision.” —Chris Matthews, of the Kennedy’s, endorsing Barack Obama YOU KNOW YOU LIVE IN A GREAT COUNTRY when a hairballing wanna-be-wag with a speech impediment can get a job addressing millions of people through television without having to blow a network executive.  Betchew a dowwar he doesn’t get canned anytime soon either.  That’s powitics.