All Hat and Five Cattle
This this new nugget of info about our swaggering faux-redneck president underscores why it is important to put quotemarks around the word “ranch” when describing Pres. Bush’s vacation home in the hinterlands of Crawford, Texas:
Vicente Fox, the former president of Mexico, derided his political friend as a “windshield cowboy” — […]

Have you, like me, had problems with the whole concept of carbon offsets? As it’s usually explained, you drive your Lady Hummer, fly when it would be easier to walk, and install an ice rink in the backyard of your Miami home…BUT you also pay someone to clean up enough carbon somewhere else on the […]

The whole country is beginning to sound like that guy (who knew?) who sobbed over the justified criticism of Britney Spears’ lackluster MTV Video Music Awards performance.
More than anyone else, Hillary Clinton is taking a pounding over allegedly egregious transgressions. An incredibly slanted story on ABC takes the Democratic front-runner to task over supposedly beyond-the-pale […]

Despite the high profile of the alleged perp, the national media is ignoring the arrest of a longtime assistant U.S. attorney in Detroit on Sunday in a child-sex sting:
In his online profile, Atchison appears to be into infantilism, a fetish where adults wear diapers and act child-like for sexual gratification.
John D.R. Atchison, 53, of Gulf […]

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
— Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Russian writer

The results of the congressional testimony last week by Gen. David Petraeus — George Bush’s new (hired) poodle now that Tony Blair is off the stage — are in, and, not surprisingly, he failed to change hearts and minds of regular Americans:
After the “surge” ends next spring and U.S. security forces are no longer […]

In a new Zogby/Reuters survey, both George W. Bush and the Democratic-led Congress have hit new low approval ratings. Just 29 percent of respondents approved Bush’s performance, down from his former low of 30 percent set in March. Congress is considered even more ineffective, with 11 percent of respondents approving of the legislative body’s performance, […]

For a group of people who believe the most outrageous things — the Great Flood, Moses parted the Red Sea, Mary was a virgin and Jesus arose from the dead — they sure seem averse to believing in something that seems damned obvious: global warming. A recent study by God’s statistician George Barna found that […]

The voice-over’s pretty bad but something tells me most viewers of this pro-vegetarian ad, airing in Houston today, won’t notice.
Houston was recently ranked the sixth fattest city by Men’s Fitness magazine. For punishment, Houstonites must watch this ad, produced by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), at least two dozen times on Wednesday […]