HE WAS A MAN KNOWN TO BE SOMEWHAT SLOW, PROBABLY AS A RESULT OF KILLING A FEW TOO MANY BRAIN CELLS DURING HIS DRINKIN’ AND DRUGGIN’ YEARS, AND HE WOULD DO EXACTLY AS HE WAS TOLD.
There is an old saying that only a fool makes the same mistake twice.� With that in […]

ONE CAN ONLY WONDER IF THE COUNTRY WOULD BE IN A BETTER PLACE TODAY IF BUSH HADN’T FRIED HIS BRAIN, BACK IN THE DAY
On May 28, Barry Bonds, a member of the San Francisco Giants baseball team, passed Babe Ruth as the man who hit the second highest number of home runs in […]

TODAY, ANOTHER KING GEORGE, GEORGE W. BUSH, A MAN WHO THINKS HE IS KING BECAUSE HE HEARD IT IN HIS REGULAR CONVERSATIONS WITH G-D, IS TRYING TO UNDO THOSE CONSTITUTIONAL CHECKS AND BALANCES
Our constitution is a brilliant document.� Considering that it dates all the way back to the late 18th Century, the […]

BLOOMBERG’S DIFFICULTY IS THAT, DESPITE HIS PROTESTATIONS OF LIBERALISM, HE IS LITERALLY COVERED WITH A CASE OF GEORGE W. BUSH FLEAS.�
I am not quite sure when I first heard it, but it has served me well after I learned the hard way about its truth.
What am I talking about?� It’s an […]

“THOSE WERE THE DAYS, MY FRIEND. WE THOUGHT THEY’D NEVER END.”
Back in the 1970s (Yes, I really am that old!), I worked for a division of a fortune 500 company.� Two of the many perks of the job were health insurance and an excellent profit sharing and pension program, which […]

IT IS STRANGE HOW OUTRAGE DEVELOPS.� IT DOES NOT COME TO SOME BECAUSE THEY SEE THE DISSERVICE DONE TO OTHERS.� INSTEAD, IT COMES ONLY WHEN THE FIRE-BREATHING DRAGON APPROACHES THEIR FRONT DOOR.
In light of the multiple scandals that enmesh the Bush Administration, I suppose that little should be left to surprise me.� […]

Once the gold standard of GOP wedge issues, gay marriage seems to have lost much of its firepower in the two years between the 2004 Presidential election and today.
Now whether this is a sign of conservative Republicans finally becoming more open minded towards gays and lesbians, or the result of the most conservative […]

I SIMPLY CANNOT BRING MYSELF TO CONSIDER THE POSSIBILITY THAT THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION PLAYED A PART IN THE ATTACKS BECAUSE I DON’T BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE SMART ENOUGH TO HAVE DONE THOSE ATTACKS IN THE PRECISE WAY THAT THEY WERE CARRIED OUT.�
On May 23, 2006, we learned that, yet another, new […]

NO BIRTH CONTROL, NO EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION, NO ABORTION SERVICES, NO LIFESAVING VACCINES
Dan Savage is a syndicated sex columnist whose column, Savage Love, is featured in many our nation’s better alternative newsweeklies.
From time to time, Savage uses his column to update as he calls it, the GOP’s battle against straight sex.
The following […]

Rep. Richard Pombo — America’s #1 wildlife villain — has done it again. And this time he’s put our wolves, lynx and other forest wildlife at risk.
On two separate occasions last week,* Rep. Pombo voted to hand over our forests to his Big Timber buddies. As a result, millions of acres could […]