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When digital cameras started to become commonplace, like 10 or 12 years ago, I thought: “say, now, this is cool – we’re finally going to get a really conclusive, clear shot of Bigfoot, or a UFO, maybe even the Loch Ness Monster. Instead, the only mystery we’ve solved is why all these black people keep […]

Even for White House as toxic and vile as George W. Bush’s sixth year in office, the revelation on April 12, 2007 seemed shocking. Responding to congressional demands for emails in connection with its investigation into the partisan firing of eight U.S. attorneys, the White House announced that as many as five million emails, covering […]

Twitter rarely surprises or confuses me anymore. Nothing perplexed me more than @Southern_Mayers Twitter account, into whose deep black hole I fell through last night. This is the most effectively hilarious parodic account I’ve ever read. In the 1961 book The Rhetoric of Fiction, Wayne C Booth coined a term that’s become common critical parlance, the “unreliable narrator”. […]

Remember how we all mocked Mitt’s refusal to turn over his tax returns because we knew they were going to say he didn’t pay any taxes?  Every presidential candidate is legally required to submit a personal finance disclosure to the FEC. These were due in April, but Bernie Sanders requested a 45 day extension, which […]

  There abound that both Scotland and Northern Ireland are trying to skedaddle out of the UK and reapply for membership in the EU as sovereign states. In Ireland the Unionists–the racist Paisleyites- are jacked up on the sheer frisson of this odious outcome, but the Republicans, like the Scots, know what it is to have […]

As an American, I find it ironic that the UK has voted to declare independence from the EU due to ‘unelected bureaucrats in Brussels’. Will they now begin storming ships to dump French cheeses and German cars into the Channel while screaming about ‘taxation without representation’? The BRIE Party (British Racists In Ecstasy) “Leave the car, take […]