DC Weasels

This T-shirt ad from the website of Human Emetic/radio tonsil Michael “Weenie Boy” Savage:
“I’d Rather Be Water Boarding.”

One thing I learned from living in Canada: A bit of socialism, properly applied, benefits everyone and makes for a better society.
But the clueless clowns of the far right, otherwiose known (these days, anyway) as the Republican Party, seem to be terrified of the word “socialism,” even though we already have plenty of it here [...]

As Gail Collins notes in her New York Times piece today, “Forgive and Forget,”  about former NY Gov. Elliott Spitzer:
“He was a great attorney general. But maybe the real lesson from the Spitzer story is that it is important to avoid electing chief executives who spent their glory days as prosecuting attorneys.”
Spitzer didn’t do [...]

NPR notable Michael Krasny,  host of KQED-FM’s  estimable “Forum,” told me the other day that he’d finished his latest project, a book about agnostics.
He says he’s going to include a great line from satirist Mort Sahl.    I hadn’t heard this classic before:
“This agnostic family moves into a neighborhood,” joked Sahl, “and someone burns a [...]

So,  Nevada’s integrity-impaired Sen. John “Busted Down From Admiral” Ensign doesn’t think President Obama should be seen joking around with Venezuela’s nutty Hugo Chavez?  He called it “irresponsible” for our President ‘to be seen joking around with’ Chavez.
What, he should have kneed El Presidente in the groin?  Given him the “deli treatment”?  (Hot tongue, cold [...]