Sad and Distasteful

WASHINGTON — Not everyone attending the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner was entertained by comedian Wanda Sykes. Count Bill Bennet as one of them. CNN’s Wolfe Blitzer sat down in the Situation Room© with the colossal Bennet, who was still visibly upset over the Dinner. Yes. The Dinner.

SATAN TRAPPED ME

If you wanna see it good, you must click it Carrie Prejean: “I felt as though Satan was trying to tempt me in asking me this question. And then God was in my head and in my heart saying, “Do not compromise this. You need to stand up for me and you need to share with all these people . …

The Christian Obama Nation

Are we “One” yet?  Click and see. Friend Quaker Dave writes, “We have become what it is we claim to fear.” Rather:  We have always been and still are what we claim we hate. And that is a people that continue to justify the torture and murder of other human beings in the name of— whatever. If America really is …

THE BEAUTY QUEENS’ CRUSADE

Miss America is roused from her post-pageant funk by the familiar strains of Burt Parks. . .

We Are Not Alone

Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper claims to have had documented alien company when he was up in space, and despite the fact that Earth Day was last week, Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell feels that the real action is elsewhere. He grew up in Roswell, New Mexico, and claims to have been told things as a boy by people who witnessed perhaps the most famous UFO event of our time. “Our destiny,” Mitchell says, “in my opinion, and we might as well get started with it, is [to] become a part of the planetary community. … We should be ready to reach out beyond our planet and beyond our solar system to find out what is really going on out there.”

Hump? What hump?

In a desperate attempt to re-brand themselves as somehow relevant to America’s political future, a number of Rethuglican leaders have taken to the road on a “listening tour,” eager to convince voters that they aren’t the Party of No Ideas, that they have something to offer than just their eternal agenda of tax cuts for the very wealthiest 5%. Not …

Biden Steps In It Again

Shortly after Vice President Joe Biden went off message on The Today Show this morning, he was called into President Obama‘s office. Also present was a nurse, an anesthesiologist, and a doctor threading a long, sharp needle with some bright red, thick thread. “Have a seat, Joe” said the president, gesturing towards a dental chair in front of the medical …