Joe The Nerd Ferraro

This is the third time I am doing one of these articles. I also wrote this up for 2010 (Link) and 2011 (Link). When it sounds like the political football of Social Security starts getting tossed all over the place and I have the new rates...

Mitt Romney has asked for an extension to pay his taxes.

OK, we get he is busy.

But so are the rest of us.

This is not about ripping on a guy because he is rich.

No, this is about ripping on a rich guy who isn't using his...

Rick Santorum is making porn-fighting a central part of his campaign. (Link .)

Stupid Questions:

6901 - Will President Rick don a cape and a cowl like Batman to start fighting porn?

6902 - Will there be a Department of Homeland Pornography In the Santorum administration?

6903 -...

Yesterday a poll was released saying some astronomical percentage of Republicans in the deep south think the president wasn't born here, or he's a Muslim, or he once played soccer.

Immediately, Democrats' hands wring and the names start coming out about how stupid or crazy those hicks in...

Since the middle of January I have been calling this race for Santorum. I feel like a guy out in the wilderness wearing sackcloth eating grasshoppers and honey. I already have the beard for it.

While watching the MSNBC coverage of Super Tuesday, Rachel Maddow proclaimed that the winner of...

In 8th grade, I was an odd kid from Chester, PA. I listened to news (KYW) and talk radio (WCAU) as much as country music (WEEZ) and rock (WFIL and WIBG).

I could come home from school and see shows like Mike Douglas (underrated and deserving of Rock and Roll...

About a month ago, I called this race for Rick Santorum (Link). I am trying to figure out how to get credit for it as my reasoning is holding water just as well, or even better than most of the political pundit class.

The changes for this...

A number of times online I have suggested that people begin to call Mitt Romney "Bishop Romney."

Many times met with derision or as a joke, I mean this as a sign of respect.

I doubt if I would vote for the bishop, I like the man we have running...

Pennsylvania lost a congressional seat as the result of not gaining enough people relative to other states. The GOP took full control of the state government in 2010. They have the opportunity to redraw the lines for the new congressional districts.

Part of the reason the GOP was able to...

This is a contrary view, but Rick Santorum wins the GOP nomination.

You can make an analogy that Rick Santorum, the Pittsburgh Penguin, scored a hat trick on Tuesday night with victories in Colorado, Minnesota, and Missouri.

Seeing pictures of both the Linux Penguin and the former junior senator...

We went to see the Stephanie Miller's Sexy Liberal Tour (link) in Philly this weekend. The wife and I on a date -- whoohoo !!!

I can say it was a great show. If you are a liberal (or even a moderate), it is well worth the time....

The day after a ruling that would have compelled Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua to testify in the cases against the Church in pedophilia scandals, it is announced that the Cardinal died overnight.

The first thing that popped into my head was a Cardinal wears the color red because he commits to...

In a hangar in a secret location a corps of specially-trained auditors and CPAs are being prepped for the fight of their lives.

They are being led by highly-trained actuaries with orders to amortize first then ask questions later. (It is a little-known fact that actuaries have their senses of...

Since Newt Gingrich has a great deal of experience with the Divorce Industry, he has found really some neat ways to get the economy moving again.

The Gingrich Open Marriage Initiative (GO-MI) is a proposed (pun intended) series of laws designed to stimulate the economy with write-offs at the same...

I think this is a fun way to look at the current political environment.

It is totally unscientific.

I am calling the GOP nomination for Rick Santorum at this point.

Why?

Because both Romney and Paul have low ceilings in the GOP registered voter world and Santorum is best positioned...

Stephen Colbert wants to get into the presidential race. Actually, he is already there at 5% in the South Carolina polls.

Since South Carolina does not allow write-ins, for Stephen to have an effect there needs to be some different ideas.

Idea 1:

Take South Carolina to court get an...

In 1987 we got married. My wife's name is Mary. We did the deed in her hometown in Western Mass. I have since realized that priests may only get one or two Mary-and-Joseph combinations during a career. The local priest made the most of it. "Joseph and Mary" -- "Mary...

For the last two-plus years we have been subjected to the steady drumbeat of the insanity generated by the Tea Party. Those who weren't yelling like idiots with tri-corner hats and snake flags were relegated to the sidelines.

The battle is starting to turn.

Montgomery County, PA, commissioners Joe Hoeffel...

It seems that after George Washington got his tents evicted from Philadelphia in 1777 he went to Valley Forge with an undisciplined group of activists and came out 6 months later as a kick-ass force that could handle the corporate foes (remember the British were the 1770's version of Wall...

As police start using violence to quell the OWS protests, the real question becomes:

Can the government control itself? What does it mean?

From what I have seen, OWS does not constitute a life endangering situation that would require a violent response. While I personally think the OWS protestors are...