“Wait a minute, you’re a woman!” – Jay Sherman “What gave me away?” – Alice Tompkins “If I told you, you’d slap me.” – Jay Sherman Picking a running mate is always a dangerous decision for a presidential candidate. The bottom half of the ticket cannot win an election but it can lose an election; [...]
Archive for August 2008
Hail Mary
Something That Matters
Map Reading
More than We Can Chew
“Oh, we always have one good kid and one lousy kid, why can’t both our kids be good?” – Homer Simpson “We have three kids, Homer.” – Marge Simpson There is no divine law that says that if one of our wars is going poorly the other must be going well. But there is a [...]
The Ruskies are Coming! The Ruskies are Coming!
“The Soviet Union? I thought you guys broke up.” – American UN Ambassador “Yes, that’s what we wanted you to think.” – Russian/Soviet UN Ambassador There once was a strain of conservative thought on foreign policy which boiled down to “America is not a global police force.” Sadly, it’s gone out of favor and been [...]
Justice Delayed
At That Hour in This Office
Cable Access Politics
“Awww, but those shows all look so crummy.” – Homer Simpson “Well we can dress it up a bit, we can bring a fern, and a folding chair from the garage and the most decorative thing of all, the truth.” – Marge Simpson I voted yesterday, it was non-presidential primary day. The ballot was headed [...]
Innocent Until Proven Suicidal
“Now, here are some results from our phone-in poll. 95% of the people believe Homer Simpson is guilty. Of course this is just a television poll, which is not legally binding unless proposition 304 passes, and we all pray it will.” – Kent Brockman Friday saw what may be the first real (public) progress in [...]
