The Great Glenn Beck Train Wreck

Engineer Glenn runs off the rails In a post titled The Nutty Professor: The Rise & Fall of Glenn Beck, published a couple of days before Fux News announced that they were dumping his show, it might have appeared that we had jumped the Beckian shark a bit soon by asserting his demise as a fate accompli. But it wasn’t …

Real Bad Men Wear Stripes (Updated)

Seantor David Vitter’s “compassion” for this victim of rape lasted nearly 30 seconds, when he started talking over her; it was 64 seconds before he scapegoated President Obama; and a full minute and 12 seconds before he tucked his prehensile appendage between his legs and slithered toward the door.

Dunderheads

Those cute little racist rascals, Jeffy Sessions and Lindsey Grahamcracker, were as cute as they could be this week, but their cuteness didn’t fool Craig Crawford…

Talkin’ Trash

A puffy but erect Lindsey Graham appeared at the Washington DC GOP Headquarters, Sunday, with the obviously deceased, desicated, and decaying Arizona Senator John McCain, where the duo attacked President Obama for not doing enough to lead the free world. Clearly frustrated, Graham said the president had been “timid and passive” more than he would like, and that the president was “S’pose teh lead the free world, not foller it.” When asked what specifically he wanted the president to say, Graham stroked his tie briefly and said President Obama should just be more “aggressive” and “hands on.”

The Last Refuge Of A DICK

Sorry kids, no time for blogging today, my socialist postal comrade just delivered the July DICK, which I usually use as a harsh laxative. Although there’s always a Dick on the cover, the mag is not totally dedicated to the current Dick ‘o the walk, Dick Cheney; they cover every swingin’ dick that’s made it into the Dickipedia, as well as most of the worthy contenders. But if dicks keep popping out of the woody-work, they may have to go to a weekly publishing schedule.

Was Georgia’s Aggression An August Surprise?

I was at the gym yesterday when I saw the live broadcast of John McSame‘s press conference, during which he made his risible pronouncement that: [I]n the 21st century, nations don’t invade other nations. In my subsequent blog, I missed this angle mentioned by Greg Sargent over at TPM (so many hard bodies to ogle, so little time): At a …

McSame’s Economic Policies: That’s Rich

McSame demonstrates he no longer needs his wife to access the internets Frank Rich begins his New York Times Sunday column yesterday by noting what a favor Barack Obama did for his presidential rival, John McSame, by traveling overseas this weekend: THE best thing to happen to John McCain was for the three network anchors to leave him in the …