“There’s a petition going around asking President Obama to make the day after the Super Bowl a national holiday. That’s a good idea. After a long, exhausting day of sitting on the couch watching TV, I need a day off.” – Jimmy Kimmel “I have a lot of eating planned for Sunday. Hot wings. Nachos. […]
They say politics makes strange bedfellows, and there are few examples more hypocritical than what’s going on with the US postal service. © Jim Morin Conservative Republicans pretend to be strict constitutionalists on issues like freedom of religion and the right to bear arms. Yet they completely ignore the fact that the Post Office is […]
“The Senate has overwhelmingly approved John Kerry as the next Secretary of State. In his farewell speech today to the Senate, Kerry spoke for 51 minutes. So, apparently he does believe in torture.” – Jay Leno “We have a new secretary of state, John Kerry, former senator from Massachusetts. For four years Hillary Clinton served […]
[from Tim Smith] It is almost as if someone was purposely overworking teachers and paying them very little. But only in the good old USA.
“According to a new poll, 50 percent of Americans think the country is divided. The other 50 percent think it isn’t.” – Jay Leno “’60 Minutes’ anchor Steve Kroft is defending Sunday’s interview with President Obama and Hillary Clinton, saying that he didn’t have enough time to ask hard-hitting questions. That would be easier to […]
© Brian McFadden The part of this comic that hit me the most was the very first panel. How did we somehow change from a country largely made up of immigrants, that used to be so welcoming to immigrants that we have a huge statue to welcome them, to a country that treats immigrants like […]
“In a big meeting of the Republican National Committee, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal told the GOP to ‘stop being the stupid party’. Then Texas Governor Rick Perry gave the rebuttal.” – Jay Leno “The U.S. Postal Service raised the price of a stamp yesterday. Stamps are something that the pilgrims used before we had the […]
Business Journals seem to be publishing articles that are downright liberal recently. One interesting example is this article — “The four business gangs that run the US” No, two of them are not the Democratic and Republican parties. We’re talking about the gangs with real power. Here they are: Military-industrial complex – Fifty years ago […]
“Already the Obama administration has been rocked by scandal. Beyonce lip-syncing; or at least we think she was lip-synching. Manti Te’o said it sounded very real to him.” – Bill Maher “Lip-synching – let that be a lesson; if you are in Washington DC and you open your mouth and another voice comes out, it […]
© Jen Sorensen Well, it looks like it backfired. Republican plans to “reform” our electoral college voting system to make it even more unfair – and to boost Republican chances of winning the next presidential election, even if they lose the popular vote – couldn’t stand up to the glare of attention it received. And […]
The media gets distracted by a non-issue, and puts their foot in it: So the White House calls their bluff:
“House Speaker John Boehner said that President Obama’s focus is to annihilate the Republican Party. Do Republicans look like they need any help from President Obama? They’re doing a hell of a job themselves.” – Jay Leno “The Pentagon has allowed women to serve in combat. Yeah, the hope is that we can now finally […]
© Ruben Bolling Yes it’s true, federal laws against computer crime are so vague and overreaching that pretty much everyone is guilty of violating them. Of course, these laws are invoked only when you piss someone powerful off, like Aaron Schwartz did. I have a friend who discovered that some computers at the company where […]
In one of the largest academic scandals in recent history at the school, as many as 60 students have been forced to withdraw from Harvard University after they were found cheating on a final exam. Why is this ironic? Because the class was “Introduction to Congress”.
“There’s a photo from the Inauguration in which Former President Bill Clinton appears to be checking out Kelly Clarkson. Clinton said, ‘That’s not true, I was checking out Beyonce and Kelly Clarkson got in the way’.” – Conan O’Brien “Beyonce is remaining silent about charges that she lip-synched the national anthem. However, the charges are […]
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