From Teddy Roosevelt’s Bully Pulpit to President Barack Obama’s embrace of social media, presidential communication tends to define communication as a cultural phenomenon.
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Aggressive secularism R us!
Fortunately for us, aggressive secularism is a hallmark of this great country. That’s why we wrote that whole Constitution thingy to say a state shouldn’t be forcing religion on anyone.
Why genius? We have illiteracy!
With all the refugnance due the intellectual leader of the Refublican Party, Sarah Falin' will refulse any grandiosity toward resfect for the English language of which she speaks and move our refublic toward a refroachful refrobation of refulsve refose.
The politics of the insipid…
Politics in the US of A inherently brings out the best and brightest – but also the gross, ignorant and insipid. It is the yin and yang of it.
And THIS is Holy Week????
But, hey, it’s Holy Week in a number of ways and the time of year when lots of religions celebrate something. Jews observed Passover this week (at which point the whole Easter thing started in the first place.) Muslims just celebrated the birth of the Prophet. Buddhists celebrate every day and the Hindus are rolling...
Bunning yanked from mound for wild pitch…
Who can forget the 1964 season in which Bunning pitched a perfect game for the Philadelphia Phillies and led the Phils into what looked like a lock for the World Series – only to then lead the Phillies into one of the most famous September pennant-race collapses in Major League history?
Surprise! Republicans agree to health care reform! No, wait…
Despite repeated attempts Thursday to come together, sitting around a square hollow table, over 30 of our nation’s most distinguished square hollow legislators continued to fuss and fight.
The Summit on Health Care Reform Arguments
The White House, in preparing for the summit to be broadcast live from Blair House, spent the better part of the past week arguing with Republicans over the size and shape of chairs, the size and shape of tables, the color of lamp shades and drapes and which incense to burn during scheduled guided...
Canada: “This Means War!” or…health care reform.
Now, (the President) has added incentive: holding off the Canadian invasion threat by trying to make our health care system look more like their health care system. The president will today announce a cap on health insurance premium increases – some of which have topped 31 percent lately – in an effort to appease...
Snow and hand puppets and Republican VD…day cards
It’s snowin’ the bejeepers outa the Northeast US of A, which means nobody can get to work, which means everyone has to sit at home and make Sarah Palin hand puppets while callin’ each other retards for thinking the snow completely disproves global warming.
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