The "big scandal" last week was the renaming of an Alaskan mountain to its original name, which, the Right claimed, was an obvious...

What is it with Brit Hume? I don't mean his embarrassing and offensive opinions, I'll get to that later, but his face hangs on him ...

By (O)CT(O)PUS A tiny cube, two watch motors to power the wheels, a pair of antennae for light sensors, limited memory and less pro...

I've become rather tired of railing on and on about how idiotic and venal one Republican politician and pundit after another are.  Afte...

The Republican party has been sinking slowly into the depths of madness for almost 40 years now. An argument can be made that the problem...

John Perr at Crooks & Liars today quoted Romney as having said about his wife Ann, back in 2007 " Her positions I do not think are...

So, another Monday morning in this best of all possible countries ; this greatest there ever was since the Big Bang and greatest there will...

I confess, I'm a loud-mouth critic of people who insist on driving heavy and dangerous trucks to the office or to do daily errands, but...

Marvelous Mitt must be desperate to have something scary to say to distract Republicans from the religious wedge issues the public is gett...

It's hard to observe the growing and comical chaos in the GOP without thinking of B movie icon Ed Wood and his Plan 9 From Outer Space ,...

"I'm really not worried about the president's birth certificate. It's fun to poke at him a little bit and say, how 'bou...

Well, Chris Christie announced that he would not run for president, probably because he didn't want to spend a year taking hits from th...

By Octopus Among all life forms known on this planet, there is no limit to the limitless decadence and moral depravity of human beings.   I...

“The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time ...

It's not any one thing. It's never one thing. All the things that have led up to my crisis of caring are old things; have been aro...

Take Herman Cain -- please . Take him far away from any office that allows him to rule and ruin other people with his beliefs; allows him...

By Capt. Fogg "Good Lord. These are truly evil people" says The Impolitic and it's hard to disagree. Of course the people ...

Gather ‘round, children. Let me tell ‘ya how things was when I was your age. Now, when I was young, fringe conspiracy theories were still k...

OK, so I've spent a lot of my time here in New Mexico ignoring Steve Pearce. I know the name, but he's been in the Second Congressio...

A scrapbook by Octopus A hat tip to Elizabeth for bringing this article to our attention: COVERT OPERATIONS , about the secretive...