The %**mind of Bush

I often feel as if we’re led by a 12-year-old, but apparently we’re led by a Deliverance-style 12-year-old. Ted Haggard ain’t got nothing on Brokeback Bush, it seems.From a Ha’aretz review of a Sharon biography: Speaking of George Bush, with...

When all else fails, bike sideways

Of course, people are naysaying this brilliant inventor, who’s come up with a sideways bike. Useless, you say? Well that’s what they’ll say when I come out with my double 2-liter drinking cap, not to mention my non-swivelling chair and my pen that...

Six feet high and rising

I used to live in New Orleans, and it was a horrifying thing to see pictures of my old neighborhood after Katrina–the water was up to the top of the street signs. It was breathtaking to watch the hubris as Bush had generators light up St. Louis Cathedral in the...

Bigfoot Arnold

The news today seems a sort of miasma– the VP was near a mostly thwarted bombing in a dangerous part of the world (reports that he was the target are impossible to confirm– suicide bombing are apparently quite common in Afghanistan these days, so it might...