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Showing posts with label Historic assholery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Historic assholery. Show all posts
Dec 11, 2014

Hip-Hop a Be-Bop

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Well, that didn't work out quite like our government  planned. I guess Guantanamera doesn't sound cool in rap time. As well, Cuba...
Dec 6, 2014

A Most Organic Loophole

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A pretty fair bargain, a classy bullet for the M1 Carbine and zippy little loads for the 94 lever gun. At 11 cents per, I'd have b...
Sep 23, 2014

There's nothing new about mulish tyranny

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In late autumn,  510 years ago, seaman Christopher Columbus was in a painful bed in his rented house near Seville. After four voyages of dis...
May 15, 2014

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Excuse me. I've been spending my time lately with a bunch of Jews, whatever sect was responsible for squirreling away the Qumran scroll...
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Mar 11, 2014

Beer for the warriors; no REMFs need apply

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By late October, 1944, all was foretold on the great battlefields of Europe. The death of the Nazi was a matter of when, not if. But Winst...
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Mar 8, 2014

The demigods among us

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On May 27, 1944, just ten days before Overlord ,  he found time for: Prime Minister to Minister of Fuel and Power "I hope you will ...
Feb 23, 2014

Scatter shots; Indian Country

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Somebody loved those four shot-dead Paiutes up in the high desert of backwater California, 200 miles or more from the nearest Starbucks. The...
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Nov 17, 2013

The National Grieving

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It has already begun, the annual Niagara of tears for the loss of our Great Leader, a grieving this year made more significant by one of the...
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Aug 27, 2013

Squeaky's 1911

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Other than the locals reporting that I'll be hot today, only three electric teevee news flashes stirred my parts this morning. Miley...
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Aug 16, 2013

A Pound, a Pound, My Kingdom for a Pound

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Things are tough in Merrye Olde Theme Parke these days, and at first I thought  this was a made-up deal -- Parliament looking for ways to st...
Jun 12, 2013

Calling Paul Wolfowitz

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...and all the other neocons to whom God spake about His  Divine Plan for a world  in the image of Peoria, Illinois: Isn't it about ...
May 31, 2012

How Many Poles Does it Take...

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Okay, it was the dumbass move of the month, this "Polish death camp" line our dim president threw out. It wasn't a mere "...
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Mar 6, 2012

Have you heard the one about squawberry shortcake?

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Every time this claptrap about offensive place names hits the press I recall a jingle in one of the old Boy Scout handbooks. How to make a f...
Mar 1, 2012

Iowa Stand-Your-Ground Bill

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The text of the bill as passed by the house last evening is here.  It goes to the senate. I can't offer a confident prophecy on its ch...
Jan 7, 2012

The Messiah Oliver North

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Produced by the College Young Republicans and rescued from a trash can at the Eisenhower Center, home of the Republican National Committee, ...
Nov 8, 2011

Hello, Abdul

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On  November 8, 1942, Yanks and  Brits launched Operation Torch . The avowed enemies were Rommel and the Italians But first we needed to w...
Oct 28, 2011

The GOP follies, hog lot editon; Iowa Caucuses 2012

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It's all set, gang. Florida and Nevada hang their heads in repentant shame, meaning  the Iowa Caucuses will not be held on Christmas Eve...
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Aug 19, 2011

Back to the future

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No political party holds the patent on absolute brain-dead goofiness. Michele offers us two-dollar gasoline, details not quite worked out ye...
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Aug 18, 2011

Hey guys, let's all go build another nation

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If there's a marching club dedicated to chanting anti-Assad slogans, sign me up. He's a brutal tyrant who murders his subjects, and ...
Mar 21, 2011

Speaking of the CIA and Muslim leaders...

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From our Oldies but Goodies file, William F.Buckley in 1957: The attempted assassination of Sukarno last week had all the earmarks of a C...
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