Month: April 2007

Spoiler alert for those who have not yet watched last week's episode. Well, she's back. I knew the news of her demise was not to be believed. I was …

One of my favorite "Far Side" cartoons -- which I could not find online, dang it -- featured a guy reading a large book. The caption read something like …

Now more than half of all Americans receive "significant income" from the US government. If this trend continues, soon we won't have enough producers to support all the dependents. …

We learn from a Newsday report that in early January 2001, France warned the CIA of an al Qaeda plot to hijack planes: France's foreign intelligence service learned as …

If you haven't seen this, it's an instant classic. If you have seen it, it's worth watching twice I'm not a big Jon Stewart fan really but this is …

I think the Boston Herald needs to hire a couple of Jews. Yesterday was Yom Hashoah, the day when Jews commemorate the genocide of the Holocaust, the systemic attempt …

Just when you think you can safely write 'em off as a bunch of intolerant Bible-thumping Jesus freaks, they go and do something like this... Funny how you never …

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) is currently the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States. With that in mind, it's vitally important to recall certain …

This week's Weekend Caption Contest™ turned out better than I had expected. The assignment this week was to caption the following picture: Here are the winning entries: 1) (fustian) …

Patricia Taylor Buckley, wife of William F. Buckley, Jr., has died in Stamford, Connecticut, at age 80. Mrs. Buckley was regularly named to the Best Dressed List and was …