Sometimes you have to ask "are people actually this stupid?" And then, of course, the obvious answer comes back - "yes. Yes, ...

By Capt. Fogg A mind is a terrible thing to make up, uncertainty being a fundamental building block of nature, but I've come close to m...

(Note:  This is an encore post, not by request or popular demand, but for the sheer hell of it. Tuesday is Election Day. Need I say more....

Armageddon is getting a bad rap these days, and perhaps it is time to stop the gratuitous and shameless stereotyping of all things apocalyp...

About the new guidelines for breast cancer screening, the American Cancer Society, the American College of Radiology (ACR), and the American...

A friend of mine used to have the job, back during the Vietnam war, of flying a helicopter over dangerous areas so as to draw fire from hid...

Notice this poster that equates Holocaust victims with national healthcare reform. Protestors displayed this poster today at a rally near t...

Would you buy a used car from this man? That used to be a popular phrase back in t he Nixon years when we were asked to buy his "secr...

Somewhere in cyberspace last night, I was egregiously misquoted. My words were twisted, turned upside down, pulled inside out. You guesse...

An assortment of political cartoons from a contentious week: H/T: Joan from South Florida H/T to " democommie " at Southern Beale...

Last weekend, the healthcare controversy came to my door when friends from South Florida arrived for a visit. Years ago, they were former n...

Never in my life could I imagine this taking place in OUR country: hooligans disrupting town hall meetings, intimidating elected officials, ...

What Rachel Maddow describes is called “astroturfing,” the subject of this hastily prepared post. I say “hasty” because this is an importan...

Why does Ron Paul have to sound so damned reasonable? Why does he sound so much like I did in the late 60's? The party he somehow belong...

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