By (O)CT(O)PUS If you happen to be the wrong gender, in the wrong neighborhood, or on the wrong side of the Tea Party, criminal acts now ...

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...

Illustration by Mark Olmsted Friends, whom I like and respect, recently discussed whether or not Herman Cain could be said to be evil. It...

I think I'm starting to figure something out. I’m coming to realize that Victoria Jackson is either a whip-smart satirist in the style o...

I first heard of it a few days ago from a blogger noted for outrageous claims, but I have been late to pick up on the ploy, even though it ...

As either of my long-time readers could tell you, I have held for quite some time that South Carolina just sucks . And they keep on trying t...

I recognize that black people don't own oppression but we certainly know a hell of a lot about it first hand. I first understood what it...

Three California House members held a "Kitchen Table Summit" ("Town Halls" are so passé), and Maxine Waters did what s...

by Capt. Fogg You may agree with Florida Governor and former Medicare pirate Rick Scott's oft stated opinion that regulations kill job...

"The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bount...

George Packer writing in the New Yorker about the debt ceiling crisis and the ever more strained fault line running through Washington, r...

"In a free society we're supposed to know the truth. In a society where truth becomes treason, then we're in big trouble. And...

"The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. T...

So, as we approach November, everybody's watching the biggest clowns - the Nazi fanboy in Ohio, the militia supporter in Alaska who ha...

A fellow blogger who goes by the handle of Capt. Fogg inspired what began as a comment on his post, Masters of Mendacity , but grew into a p...

I find myself again needing to wash my mouth out with soap, having engaged in another round of WTF with no expletives deleted. When I was a ...

It's been many decades since I read Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi , but I remember his description of the man up in the bow o...

It all started with Tom T at Two Seeds On a Blog. If he hadn't written such a lucid article called The Myth of the Founding Fathers (HE...

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