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When creepy Christians bicker among themselves

Startling.

When whiny white ladies form a club

Unbelievable.

The little things

Today, after returning home from an errand, I tethered my Beagles to a post on the sidewalk in front of the house. My plan was to brush them. Leaving the front door open, I carried in my bags. When I came back down the stairs, I noticed that a woman and her baby (in a [...]

American dream, I’m watching you

Perhaps if fewer people owned homes they couldn’t afford, we could stop all this crying about the popping of the home-mortgage bubble. You make an investment, you own it…so to speak. Live with it. Or is that live in it?

Barack Obama loses the general election to Jesus Christ, Part II

Quick, grab your copy of the U.S. Constitution and turn to the last sentence of Article VI, which quite clearly and eloquently states: The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be [...]

Bob Costas is a dick

Bob Costas is the perfect specimen of a class of sports/athletics broadcasters my father describes simply: “These people have never played a professional sport. They’ve never pitched a baseball or swam a competitive lap or biked 100 miles or slid through the mud on their way to the end zone. But they talk more than [...]

To serve and protect

My mom asked me today if I had heard about the SWAT raid in Berwyn Heights. No, I said, because I tend to ignore local and national news when I can. As I prepare mentally for my expatriation, I’m shedding the American impulse to dwell on scandal, the media’s obsession with pain and suffering, and [...]

Barack Obama loses the general election to Jesus Christ, Part I

Today, The New York Times reported: “Obama Wants to Expand the Role of Religious Groups.” I read the article, regained my composure, and then wrote a letter to the Obama campaign. It follows.

Dear Mr. Plouffe. Mr. Obama, and the hard-working volunteers and staff of the Obama Campaign,

It’s interesting that “deadline,” which you [...]

News headline of the day

Tatum O’Neal: Dog’s death reason for Crack purchase

Memo to limousine liberals: put up or shut up

Marin County, north across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco, is home to a very specific type of powerful liberal — the wealthy one. We will define wealth here as any group at least 30 rungs above poverty, where the West Virginian middle class would rank, say 6 rungs above poverty.

Wealthy liberals in [...]

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