Unmarking the Beast

Well, that didn’t take long. Crooks and Liars spoofs the Repugs FISA amendment scare ad with this: Lesson learned. The way to deal with the propagation of “unreasoned fear” is to refute it with something positive before it has time to fully wrap it tendrils around the lizard brain, aka “the mark of the beast.” Any discernible differences between those …

Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.

Check out this latest ad from the Rethugs designed to scare us out of our liberties and place Bush and his corporate fascist buddies above the law. Unreasoned fear is a master intellectual fraud practiced upon the evolving mortal soul. -The Urantia Book UPDATE. . .

McLame Blows Nomination

I couldn’t sleep last night. Thank you for asking, it was the usual morbid realization about John McCain. From a strictly comedic gold mine point of view, McCain is the Mother pantload, and comedians everywhere were in danger of losing the kind of career-making material that only congeals once in a political lifetime. But then, I thought that it was …

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.

Homey McCain —POTUS@72yrsofage.US

Heel! Heel! Heel McCain! “All this emoting over Barack Obama’s [Homey McCain’s] wonderful, wonderful personality is starting to trigger my gag reflex. What are we electing here, a faith healer?” —Derbyshire Ann Coulter says, well it doesn’t matter what Ann Coulter says. She hates the candidate. A lot of the hate directed at the liberals must temporarily be diverted to …

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 …