The Reagan-Palin Hybrid

Updating the ancient Greek myth of the Chimera The New York Times weighs in on presidential wannabe Sarah Palin‘s commemoration of what would have been the 100th birthday of conservative icon, Ronald Reagan: SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – Sarah Palin opened a weekend centennial celebration to Ronald Reagan by declaring that the United States was lurching toward a “road to ruin,” …

Bachmann Goes Goth

Michele Bachmann’s latest attempt to protect her reputation as a “balloon head” raised eyebrows and set off stud detectors at Minn. International Airport.

WEAK PEOPLE

You don’t say… How long will we allow this doughy diaper-load of an excuse for a man to pollute and degrade our nation’s public discourse? Beware the tyranny of the minority. —Latin proverb Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies. —de la Mothe Fénelon,  1651—1715

Fruits Of Teh Crazy Tree

Mugshot of Jared Loughner after massacring  six and wounding fourteen When asked if his daughter, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), currently in a medically induced coma after taking a bullet to the brain,  had any political enemies, Spencer Giffords replied: “Yeah, the whole Tea Party.” While at present there is no direct line of evidence linking Jared Loughner to the Tea …