To A Hammerhead, Everything Looks Like A Nail

None other than one of the House of Representatives’ top Teabagger wingnuts, former judge Louie Gohmert, captured the gun toting American zeitgeist.

Aurora Lesson

  Friends: Hope you’ll take a few minutes and read this. —TPK “I’d like to preface this… by saying that my passion comes from my deepest sympathy and shared sorrow with [the] victims and with the utmost respect for the people and the police/fire/medical/political forces of Aurora, and all who seek to comfort and aid these victims. This morning, I …

The Truman Show

“It seems that the whole world revolves around me somehow.”

Men In Black

“Now that I’ve told you I’ll be taking away your ‘Obamacare,’ I’ll have to use my flashy flashlight thing to erase your memory.”

Monster Mash-up

You’ve probably seen the 1934 “surgeon’s photo” of the “Lock Ness Monster. But have you realllly seen it?

Proceedings Of The Senate Fluffer Committee

MOTU Jamie Dimon, enduring a high profile US government inquiry as only a supreme narcissist can   You know, being called to testify before a Senate committee on a matter fraught with danger for one’s career, and perhaps one’s very liberty, would usually have the testifier sweating bullets.  Not so for the man who has been called Wall Street’s most …

Coming To America: The Handmaid’s Tale

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy In Ayatollah Santorum & The Republic(ans) Of Gilead, we noted some eerie parallels between Margaret Atwood‘s novel The Handmaid’s Tale and a resurgence of  the extreme religious right’s influence over the GOP in this presidential election year. The issues are familiar ones: separation of church and state (a …