Stylus

David Matthew Schultz
JULY 13, 2011 4:52PM

An open letter to Mrs. Marcus (Michelle) Bachmann

Dear Michelle Bachmann:

Your husband is gay. Maybe you already know this. It’s pretty obvious to many people, although sometimes the closest ones are the most oblivious. Mothers always know, but not so much wives. Ask Suzanne Craig or Dina Matos McGreevey. It’s probably a wishful thinki… Read full post »

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MARCH 10, 2011 2:10PM

Some questions for our feel-good No Fly Zone advocates

      Some questions for Joe Lieberman, John McCain, John Kerry and presumptive GOP front-runner-in-his-own-mind Tim Pawlenty – T-Paw! – as they advocate U.S. military involvement in/… Read full post »
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MARCH 2, 2011 1:29PM

The term conservative stands for idiocy

     Reasonable Conservative is an oxymoron.  Social conservatives are anti-social. Fiscal conservative is a term now tainted by the debasement of the word/… Read full post »
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FEBRUARY 28, 2011 1:07PM

It’s every man for himself  in the Recession Republic

        While protesters living under Middle East dictators have massed in public squares to demand a better life and to attack the rich and  powerful oligarchs holding dominion over their lives,/… Read full post »
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FEBRUARY 26, 2011 4:44PM

The least exclusive Hall of Fame

     Joan Warneka Bennett made numerous trips to Pittsburgh to compete in AAU sanctioned swim events. Jim Durkey was an important and competitive… Read full post »

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JANUARY 16, 2011 4:43PM

Armed and scared

     If you had to guess which segment of the US population is the most frightened, you might not think of gun owners. Yet, we are frequently being just how scared they are. You would think it plausible that people who owned weapons would feel a little… Read full post »
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JANUARY 3, 2011 1:43PM

Oh Great Comcast, protect us from the evil FCC

     In a war between our government and Comcast, those Washington pencil pushers don’t stand a chance. And neither do we citizens. To insure we pay top dollar for media access through their preferred channels, cable and internet giants will slow down and restrict other cont… Read full post »
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DECEMBER 9, 2010 12:45PM

The Anon who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

Or, P is For Payback 

      It read like a Stieg Larson novel or an Alan Moore graphic novel: the Twitter feeds of #Payback hackers and their supporters' accounts of yesterday's cyber war in support of Wikileaks and Julian Assange. Reacting to censorship -- actual or perceive… Read full post »

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NOVEMBER 4, 2010 12:03PM

In the future, every country will be a superpower for 15 min

           Good news or bad news – depending on if you’re an optimistic Democrat or a pessimistic one – on the economic front. Some indicators point to an economic recovery. Car sales and factory orders are up and private companies added 43,000/… Read full post »
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NOVEMBER 3, 2010 1:58PM

Long live the plutocracy

        Never in the history of America have so few received so much from so many.

        The big banks, after taking huge no-strings-attached money from the US government, gave taxpayer money in bonuses to themselves, watched/… Read full post »

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OCTOBER 26, 2010 12:44PM

If Sean Hannity was captain of a high school team

      Sean Hannity strikes me as a high school athlete, a junior returning to a team which had won several state championships, but most recently had graduated their entire starting line-up and most of their bench.  Hannity was like that kid who joins a team of grea/… Read full post »
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OCTOBER 14, 2010 2:17PM

Gay Paladino makes Rabbi choke on his salami

       The New York Rabbi who reportedly helped gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino write his gay brainwashing comments to Orthodox Jewish leaders in Brooklyn, is shocked - shocked! - to learn that the Tea Party candidate is gay.
        "I was in the mid… Read full post »

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OCTOBER 13, 2010 4:25PM

What's so ugly 'bout peace, love and windfarms?

        Five months after the White House dismissed Kennedy family opposition and approved the country’s first offshore wind farm within sight of Cape Cod, Google and Good Energies have announced their plans to jumpstart more wind farms along the North Atlantic Seaboard… Read full post »
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OCTOBER 5, 2010 10:04AM

The 30 percent nation of crackpots

        After Katrina, during the financial collapse of 2007-2008, and all the while Afghanistan and Iraq were creating terrible headlines, President Bush’s approval ratings hovered in the low to mid 30’s. While pundits pontificated at how bad things had got for B… Read full post »
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SEPTEMBER 25, 2010 5:36PM

Enjoying sex makes us inferior

        A recent Christine O’Donnell clip – there are many, that’s true – shows her claiming to be a celibate 30 year old and desiring for all unmarried people to stop – just stop – having sex. Atlanta Pastor Eddie Long – currently be… Read full post »
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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010 12:29PM

The exclusive GOP club

       Groucho Marx said “I would never join a club that would have me as a member.” Groucho would have never been a Log Cabin Republican, those doe-eyed optimists who hope that someday the grown-up Republicans – the ones with full membership privileges – w… Read full post »

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2010 5:13PM

Tolerating the intolerant

      There is nothing more intolerant than mosque protesters screaming at Muslims and calling the religion of Islam and phony religion of hate; except the religion of Islam itself and supposedly moderate Muslims like Imam Feisel Abdul Rauf.
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SEPTEMBER 6, 2010 2:03PM

An election with few consequences

       Elections have consequences, we are oft’ told. This maxim is sometimes intended to motivate the apathetic to vote, sometimes to chasten the losers who complain about the winners. Like most maxims, this one is taken as self-evident, but it is far less true today tha… Read full post »
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AUGUST 28, 2010 2:24PM

Fat, dumpy people like Glenn Beck

       I was struck by the photos in the NYT showing the crowd at Glenn Beck’s “I Have  A Scheme” speech (as John Stewart’s Daily Show calls it). These people are fat. In a society which is increasingly obese, this should not come as a/… Read full post »
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AUGUST 27, 2010 12:29PM

Racism as a way to sleep at night

        Imagine how much our behemoth farms could maximize their profits if they could use slave labor instead of paid labor. Such a system sustained the large cotton and rice operations in the pre-Civil War South so that the landed gentry could live lives of leisure. Slaves… Read full post »
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AUGUST 16, 2010 12:03PM

Mad as hell, but still taking it

       As Steven Slater’s facebook fan exceed the 200,000 mark, poor Melodi Dushane is stuck at 372 friends and her “fan page,” as it were, has a mere 216 likes when I last checked on Saturday. What does that tell us, boys and girls? That we… Read full post »
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AUGUST 9, 2010 2:01PM

Which way will Scalia swing in the gay marriage ban

Forget Elena Kagan using her wily ways to sway the ever convincible Anthony Kennedy into the pro-Perry camp of Perry v. Schwarzenegger; the real swing vote could be Antonin Scalia. I know, I know, the Opus Dei aficionado is portrayed as a little to the right of/… Read full post »

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JULY 27, 2010 4:42PM

The U.S. Senate: a pointless branch of government

        Back in simpler times, when we didn't have to think about global warming, Islamic terrorism, and the housing bubble recession -- you know, the 80's and 90's -- conservatives extolled the virtues of gridlock.How wonderful it was when our national leaders couldn't do an… Read full post »

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JULY 5, 2010 2:53PM

Homage to Paul Krugman, Niall Ferguson and Robert Frost

Some say the American empire will end in deflation
Some say in debt.
From what I’ve read of Paul Krugman
I hold with those who favor deflation
But if I had to guess how bad it could get
I think I have heard enough from Niall Ferguson
To say that/… Read full post »

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JUNE 18, 2010 8:35PM

Drilling in Lake Erie? Pat Toomey says OK

        Pat Toomey has nothing on Joe Barton, except the media buzz that accompanies a Congressional hearing. Toomey is merely running for the U.S. Senate and was in the small town of Erie, Pennsylvania when the Barton fiasco hit. While Barton was first apologizing to BP for… Read full post »
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