December 31, 2008 - Tonight at midnight most people will raise their glasses to the fact that this shit year is finally coming to an end. Happy new year?
But hey, no more Bush next year. No more watching Cheney snarl at the country he's destroyed. No more, um, jobs. Or money. Or...
December 31, 2008 - George Bush isn't the only one who's been a lame duck for the last couple of months of 2008. I have, too. I think all Americans have been lame ducks. We've been in limbo. We've been waiting to see how the financial crisis will be resolved...
December 30, 2008 - Okay. Just so you know: the Top Ten Comedic News Stories of the Year are as different from the Top Ten Legitimate News Stories of the Year as a tarantula infested banana tree is from a small paper bag of locking quarter- inch steel washers painted blue. Other stuff might...
December 30, 2008 - The jokes was on us in 2008, making us all proverbial straight men, reacting to the appalling developments in the harrowing comedy that has become the 21st century. Some years are so bad you have to bury them, the worse the year, the deeper the hole. 2008 should be buried...
December 23, 2008 - It's that time of year when all of the supermarket tabloids, Oprah Magazine and The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy get out their crystal balls, pour a cup of tea, cast their lots, watch the flight of hawks, read the bumps on their grandmother's heads and try to peer...