Posts Tagged ‘Republicans’

FLASH! AMERICANS STILL DEEPLY DIVIDED ON WAR!

March 29, 2008

WAR SUPPORTERS, OPPONENTS CLASH IN COMMENTS SECTION
The war is won. Terrorists watch American TV. We’re in it for oil. Supporting the troops  means questioning your government. Terrorists gain strength every time you compain about Iraq. This, and much, much more (52 comments, most of them quite thoughtful) in the comments section to our post of [...]

FOX IN BOX ON ROMNEY FALLING STOCKS

February 5, 2008

Early election results suggest there’s hope for the GOP
It’s still early–just 8:15 p.m. on Election Day–and California’s not yet counted, but John McCain is killing it in Red State primaries. At this point, Romney’s won  Massachusetts, Minnesota, Utah and the nearly unknown American province, Northern Daquota. McCain, meantime, has called it in Arizona, Oklahoma, New [...]

WORST HOUSING SLUMP EVER

January 29, 2008

Maybe that’s overstating it, but this is still a really, really, really bad time to be building houses–unless you plan to live in them all. Which is not really how being a developer works.
According to an Associated Press story in today’s Press-Telegram, sales of new homes plunged 26.4 percent last year–2007–by the largest amount on [...]

DAYS OF REST

November 4, 2007

Congressing is hard work
The Democratic takeover of Congress hasn’t exactly gone as supporters hoped. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid have explained that they have not been able to fulfill all their promises, because of implacable Republican opposition. Fair enough. But there was one promise that no amount Republican opposition could [...]

“BUT OFFICER, HE SLIPPED ME A DRUG THAT GAVE ME THE GAYNESS”

November 1, 2007

GOP closets comfortable, well-appointed, and less crowded by the day
Yet another Republican lawmaker (in this case, Washington State’s Richard Curtis) has been accused of soliciting anonymous sex with another man. The details–trolling through sex shops, wearing lingerie, a well-muscled fellow named Cody–will ensure that the story doesn’t devolve into a discussion of the “wide [...]

THE UNDEAD INITIATIVE

October 23, 2007

Zombie assault on the Electoral College
Halloween is hard upon us, so perhaps it’s only fitting that something once believed dead is reported to have risen from the grave.  Unfortunately, the zombie in question is nothing so fragrant as a rotting corpse– it’s the ballot initiative to split California’s electoral college votes.

 

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