Category: Politics

  • The Election

    Congratulations, President Bush and Vice President Cheney. Congratulations, America.

  • The End is Near, of Intelligent Life, Anyway

    A friend, who is a grad student at a major, well-respected university – names of student and school withheld, for reasons which will soon be obvious – reports that a student in a class she T.A.’s asked for a word definition during an exam. The word: “monogamy.” Shocked, my friend asked the student if he…

  • You can run…

    …but you can’t hide from the U.S. Armed Forces. Go, guys! Personally, I find the circumstances of Saddam’s surrender, well… amusing, to say the least. The orange and white taxi is going to show up on a few late-night shows…

  • The Federal Marriage Amendment

    Unless you’re living in a cave, you probably have heard about the recent Supreme Court overthrow of anti-sodomy laws in 13 states. You’ve probably also heard that this is “Gay Pride” weekend (or simply “Pride” weekend, since “gay” is apparently insensitive to the “transgendered” and all sorts of other folks). We have a problem here.…

  • Annie’s had a wreck, and so has the economy…

    My little sister Annie had a car wreck, yesterday. She’s fine (just sore and banged up); but the car may not be in such good shape. It’ll be a few days before we know about that (in terms of what insurance will or won’t do and even in terms of which insurance company pays for…