Archive for September, 2008

Who hires these people?

So you guys all remember Larry Craig? Closeted Gay Republican Senator, arrested for soliciting sex in a bathroom at the Minneapolis airport, almost resigned, didn’t, now trying to rehabilitate his image. At this point he’s been convicted and everyone in America thinks he was trying to have it in that bathroom. Craig has been mocked, [...]

Does John McCain have a sex yacht problem?

Some people know that Raffaello Follieri as an Italian con-man who defrauded investors by pretending to be a real estate agent form the Vatican or some shit. Others know him as the dude who got a serious blow j from made out with then girlfriend Anne “Princess Diaries” Hathaway on his yacht.
Well, in a [...]

A time for Action! Sexy Vice Presidential Action!

According to an intelligence report being prepared for the next president, US dominance will decline in “political, economic and arguably, cultural arenas.” (Did we ever have dominance in cultural areas?) This is assuming, of course, the world isn’t swallowed by a black hole, destroyed by nuclear warfare in the Middle East, or reclaimed by God.
Isn’t [...]

All politics is lustful, I mean, local

So I voted in my local primary yesterday, thanks to a lot of pushy canvasers lambasting me while I was walking my dog. None of them seemed to know anything about the candiates dog related policies, but they complimented Baxter’s unique coloring, and asked me if I was going to vote. I lied and said [...]

Lip-Schtick

Yesterday, at a campaign event in Virginia, Barack Obama employed an old southern colloquialism to describe Senator McCain’s assertion that he is now the candidate of change. Here is what Obama said:
“John McCain says he’s about change too, and so I guess his whole angle is, ‘Watch out George Bush – except for economic policy, [...]

huh.

Boy it sure would be nice if she knew someone in some position of authority somewhere who could maybe do something about this:

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday there are too few black Americans in the State Department. ”I have lamented that I can go into a meeting at the Department of State — and [...]

Take that Saddam.

According to the LA Times, we’ve made Iraqis fat. And yes, the headline is actually “Another Iraqi Casualty of War: Their Waistlines.”

For Said, the next step is learning to eat tiny portions totaling about 2,500 calories a day, a fraction of what he used to consume. That means giving up the delicious mounds of chicken, [...]

5 Things that Have Nothing to Do with Sarah Palin (or Politics or Saving the World or Being a Better Person)

I have to level with you here. While we pride ourselves on being a “lifestyle magazine”, between now and November we will most likely look a hell of a lot like a political blog. I wish I could change that. I really do. But the fact is we have way too much crap to talk [...]

Braised moose.

Ingredients
4 lb Ripened moose
Salt and pepper
1/8 ts Cloves
1/2 c Water
1 Onion, sliced
1 c Milk
4 Strips salt pork
1/8 ts Cinnamon
2/3 c Claret or weak vinegar
1/2 Bay leaf
1 c Claret or cranberry juice

Trim off any musty parts of moose and lard with salt pork. Sprinkle with salt, pepper, cinnamon and cloves. Marinate in claret or vinegar for [...]

Gay Marry It … Or Abort It? Sarah Palin edition.

Okay. I really want to write about something other than Sarah Palin but I’m just obsessed. Everyone is. What will we learn next!? Did she really call Barack Obama “sambo?” Is there more news about the trooper? What books did she try to ban!? Is Todd really the father of the down syndrome baby? For [...]