Run Sarah, Run
I can't think of anything more satisfying than the spectacle of Sarah Palin making a run for the Presidency in 2012. Imagine the comic potential—the great debates between Sarah, Newt, Romney, Pawlenty,...
View ArticleAnthony Weiner's Sexting
I'm in my mid-sixties and I'm not shocked at all about Anthony Weiner's sexting. Frankly I've never known a man who didn't like phone sex or some kind of virtual sex. It might be my generation. We...
View ArticleWho's The Father?
An old voice talent I once dated for a moment called me the other night and I said, "Who's this?" He said, "Peggy, don't you recognize my voice?""No. Should I?""It's Scott?""Scott who?" I was kidding...
View ArticleDowngrade
I give myself a downgrade for the prolonged silence here. I've been paralyzed by the freak show of the spectacle of the Congress in Paralyse. The horrible prolonged haggling over the debt ceiling and...
View ArticleDear Tom
It's almost your birthday and I always think of you this time of year. This is not to say I only think of you this time of year. I get mail for you at least once a week so I'm pretty much forced to...
View ArticleFrom Yes We Can to No We Can't
My first clue should have been the health care bill. Yes, it was great we were finally getting a health care bill but without a public option it was a gift to the insurance industry. I have no idea...
View ArticleLiving in Utah
Utah is the Reddest State in the Nation. We are more like the South than the South in our conservatism, but less like it in our inclusiveness. Utah goes out of its way to encourage immigrants to come...
View ArticleDear Mystery Caller
Tom, how is it you only call when I'm not home and I only leave home once a week or so? That seems damn near statistically impossible given the extremity of my isolation. Hardly anybody knows I exist...
View ArticleHe Tweets!
One of the reasons I no longer blog is that I tweet. Twitter takes care of my need to vent. Twitter is the place for news and politics. Every political writer I admire is on twitter and I can follow...
View ArticleChild Rape: It's Personal!
Finally the whole nation is talking about it. It doesn't surprise me that this time it's big time college football that gives us another opportunity to get it right. Oddly, I don't have much hope we...
View ArticleOld Sports Injuries
I was always athletic. Sure, some of it was forced. I was taken on ski trips before I could walk. We rode horses, went swimming. I remember none of this but there are photos to prove that baby Peggy...
View ArticleMedia Whore Newt Gingrich
I'm reprising my old Newt posts. I've loathed Newt for a long time. Honest whores deserve some respect but politicians who are nothing BUT whores do not. Newt is the worst of the worst and I've written...
View ArticleNewt Gingrich Is A Big Fat DooDoo Head
I have reposted this because... Well... Newt is a still a big fat doodoo head. At the time I first posted this, I was letting google ads, advertise on my blog, and every time I said something nasty...
View ArticleHappy Holidays!
This was last years Thanksgiving post: How prescient am I!? I didn't know we had the 99 percent then as a movement but we all should have. So, eat your turkey and have your little dinner time squabbles...
View ArticleWalk Like a Model
I used to do these exercises when I was a kid to get in shape for ski season, so I never understood how hard they were for the teenaged girls I tried to teach to walk like a model. They were second...
View ArticleIt's Just Another Winter Day
No Black Friday Tasing or Pepper Spray was used in the making of my peaceful winter Sunday. It is merely the 25th of December to me.I'm not a Christian so it makes no more sense for me to celebrate...
View ArticleHappy Fiftieth Anniversary Tom
I know I'm late in writing this, but I've had to think about it. It's still incomplete.We began our relationship fucking like bunnies. Glad I wasn't the fertile kind. We spent our fiftieth anniversary...
View ArticleMitt's a Mormon and Mormonism Is a Great Business Plan: Food for Thought
Mormonism is a successful religion precisely because it's a business that requires total belief in a paternalistic dogma. Big Daddies are at the top. Mommies are in the kitchen popping out babies and...
View ArticleWhy Mormons Love Multi-Level Marketing: The Celestial Kingdom
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/The_Plan_of_Salvation.jpgIt's a complicated place, this Mormon version of heaven, but what most non-Mormon's don't know about it is that men get to...
View ArticleMitt, the Better We Get to Know You, the Less We Like You
The GOP primaries are so boring to me I've about given up writing about them. It figures that as a Democrat I wouldn't like them all that much, but in years past, I've found GOP electoral politics...
View ArticleDear Rick Santorum, Does Your Wife Know You're Calling Me?
You call late at night. I won't pick up the phone when caller ID says "Out of Area." Are you calling from Costa Rica? Are you hiking the Appalachian Trail? Are you calling with one of those throw away...
View ArticleHacked
While I was recovering from having a broken tooth (with an exposed nerve and a long and healthy root) pulled with not much more than fancy pliers (hold that image) some cocksucker was hacking my email....
View ArticleArizona and Immigration (what's old is new)
I don’t understand the hysteria surrounding the immigrant “problem.” I think our message to the world has always been, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free…….” I...
View ArticleMedicare"Advantage" and the Insurance Companies
Once again I feel the need to repost to remind you that you do not need to listen to the insurance companies or their shill AARP when it comes to "Medicare Advantage Plans." Please listen to me. There...
View ArticleLosing It
I've been losing wordsOld loverWhy am I standing in the kitchenLostBad habits, good healthTrying to gain weightWanting loss to matterI cancel ancient friendshipsWith thoughtGoneMy social calendarOnly...
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