Good Questions

“Which news item this week was less predictable, that Palin was hired by Fox News or that Mark McGwire took steroids?“
Not quite the headline as those two, but I’d add Blake Griffin – chosen first in last spring’s draft by the LA Clippers – blowing out his knee and missing the rest of his rookie [...]

So Palin’s A Birther

I shocked, just shocked to discover that the same woman who thinks she’s an expert on foreign policy because she lives across the Bering Strait from Russia (yet doesn’t know who the Prime Minister of Canada is), thinks the First Amendment protects elected officials from criticism by the press and who swears that if the [...]

Buh Bye Huck

In 2001, then Governor Mike Huckabee commutes the sentence of Maurice Clemmons from sixty plus years to time served, setting Clemmons free; in November 2009, Clemmons is wanted in connection with the killing of four police officers.
Count me among those who think those two facts have ended Huck’s presidential dreams.
That’s doesn’t mean I agree with [...]

So I Guess I Have To Say Something About Palin

Anyone who read this blog last fall  knows I have no respect for her. Still, even if I did, there’s really only two possible conclusions any fair minded person can draw from her oddball resignation speech. No one knows what her real plans are, or what her real motives might be, and that speech sure [...]

I Still Would Never Vote For Her, But I’d Sure Watch Pro Wrestling Again

I haven’t watched it since fourth grade, when, in a revelation more harmful than the truth about Santa Clause, I discovered it was fake. This might make me a fan again:
If Sarah Palin still wants to be a running mate, she’s got options.
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling — TNA to fans — is making the Alaska [...]

The List Of Successful Pot Smokers

The latest propoganda from the Office of National Drug Control Policy tells teens they’ll never get a job if they smoke pot. That, of course, is total bulls**t. In response, Radley Balko has this challenge:
Here’s my challenge to Agitator readers, bloggers, and others:  In this comments thread, let’s compile a master list of admitted pot [...]

Hey Republicans, Want My Vote Back?

Stand up to Barack Obama and Rahm Emanuel’s assault on the 13th Amendment.
I value time much more than I do money; that’s a big reason I switched from being a lawyer to being a teacher. So while taxes don’t really bother me a lot, requiring people of any age to spend their time volunteering (oxymorons, [...]

Campaign Crazies Update

A quick post about two of the most ridiculous presidential campaign characters I can remember.
Sarah Palin’s 150K wardrobe? She did the shopping herself. Sua sponte. And did so without telling the donor what was happening. Fiscal responsibility, huh? Nothing easier than spending other people’s money.
Even better, the supposed champion of pork cutting, open government, and [...]

Thoughts So Far

1. I’m really enjoying the shots of the two campaign parties. I laughed my ass off when CNN said – after calling Pennsylvania – that the McPalin party had turned off all the national news reports. If that’s not their campaign in a nutshell, I don’t know what is.
2. The crowds are interesting, too. One [...]

I Didn’t Vote

I meant to vote. I’d gotten excited about it. Walking over to the polls, pulling the kids in their wagon, I even decided to vote Obama instead of Bob Barr. (McCain ceased to be an option when he picked Palin.) But when I got there, my name wasn’t on the list for the precinct. I [...]