In my previous post, Ann of a Thou$and Tees, I took Ann Romney to task for the hideous $1000 tee shirt she wore on the Today Show. Then some commenters took me to task for wasting space on something so trivial. 

Sorry folks, but where I come from, $1000… Read full post »

“I am a man of parts, though I disjoint a cripple.” Anonymous

The soiled and spoiled rich have a saying: “If you got it flaunt it.” Ann Romney apparently subscribes to that notion. She recently appeared on the Today Show wearing what has come to be… Read full post »

You idealize
And you idolize
So you get hypnotized
By some too-perfect guy’s
Smile and dark eyes
He's like honey to flies
He seems so wise
Surely, you surmise
He will devise
Some bold enterprise
And shortly give rise
To a long-promised prize

You are surprised
When you realize
It was all a disguis… Read full post »

 
For the second time in the three years or so I’ve been contributing and commenting here, someone has accused me of being a bully. The last time that happened, my accuser also accused me of being a wife-beater, the only evidence for that charge being that I had to be since… Read full post »

Memo

Subject: Contraception, etc
From: The Founders
To: Pope Benedict XVI
CC: Pat Robertson
       Tony Perkins
       James Dobson
       Donald Wildmon
       Ralph Reed

No representa… Read full post »

When I was a boy, I was fond of comics. Superheroes, of course, but I had a taste for edgier fare, too. But there was nothing comic about some of those tales.

One such comic had a story about a couple killed in a car crash, who left behind… Read full post »

Bob McDonnell isn’t content to be Governor of Virginia – it’s obvious he has designs on the White House. It appears he has defecated on those ambitions, though, during his brief stint as Governor of Vagina.

Like other paternalists, McDonnell presumes to know what’s b… Read full post »

Attention:

At the insistence of several people here on OS who want to hear what me and my music sounds like, please be advised that the live radio show I did last night will be broadcast on streaming Internet radio this Saturday morning at 11:05 EST. If you can't make that… Read full post »

Music been beery beery good to me – at least when I wasn’t using it as an excuse to be beery, beery, bad to myself. Music brought me some pretty high highs – no, not that kind; I’m talking about opening for Willie, headlining a few concerts, and above all… Read full post »

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.” Emerson

I am immersed in writing another of my concerts/shows in a series I call History in Song. This time the subject is The Life and Hard Time of the Blues. So far I’ve followed the blues from its… Read full post »

Turdblossom:

1. In Texas vernacular, a desert wild flower that grows out of a meadow muffin.

2. One of G.W. Bush's nicknames for Karl Rove

(source: Urban Dictionary)

One of the few things George W Bush got right was calling Karl Rove Turdblossom. Looks like this… Read full post »

A commenter on my previous post compared the Republican debates to The Gong Show. That was an apt comparison; several ditzy contestants – Cain, Bachmann, Perry – limped through goofy, wingnut song and… Read full post »

The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th' unworthy takes

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Forget to be, or not to be, the question is whether ‘tis nobler in the mind – excluding what passes for minds in… Read full post »

What has become of the Conservatives of my youth? The Eisenhowers? The Nelson Rockefellers? The Bill Buckleys? Eisenhower cautioned about the danger of the military-industrial complex. Bill Buckley waxed eloquent on almost any subject; today’s Conservatives idea of eloquent is &ldqu… Read full post »

In his post My Best Guess, Old New Lefty gazed into his crystal balls and offered his predictions for the future. Not to be outdone, herewith some bold predictions for 2012 and the decade beyond from the all-seeing, all-knowing Swamii Tommy.

2012 – Barack Obama is the winner… Read full post »

If anyone is wondering where I am, so I am. I am writing this from an undisclosed remote location. I haven't been able to sign on to OS from my home computer, and my emails to the tech dept go unanswered. Given that page reloads were taking fifteen minutes or longer,… Read full post »

Reader, pity pretty Mitty
He’s been treated sorta shitty
By the Bride who vacillates before the ball
She’s a pack of raving racists
Who want people kept in places
And that place is usually up against the wall

Mitt’s been pilloried by pigeons
For the crime of Wrong Religion
For… Read full post »

Like Diogenes, I have so far failed in my attempt to find an honest man – at least in the political arena. I suspect most people long ago gave up the search.

Even the young, once irrepressibly optimistic, are now given to cynicism, including my son TJ. … Read full post »

That’s the logical presumption to draw from all the voices raised… Read full post »

GENEVA (AP) — Lax anti-poaching efforts are to blame for the loss of the last wild specimens of Western Black Rhino, leading the rhinoceros subspecies to be declared officially extinct this week, conservationists said Friday.

Researchers estimate about 10 of the long-legged West A… Read full post »

"A king like you has policy prepared on everything. What's the official line on sodomy?" King Phillip to King Henry in The Lion in Winter

Happy Valley is no longer so happy. Sadness and revulsion increase with each new revelation in the scandal involving Jerry Sandusky, who coached at Penn… Read full post »

"Truth is treason in the empire of lies." George Orwell

Recently, I was taken to task for a comment I made in which I referred to Herman Cain as a token. According to one critic, that makes me a racist. I'm well aware “token” is a… Read full post »

My tongue-in-cheek minimalist bio and my writing has proven irresistible to more than one lady apparently plying the virtual version of the oldest profession here on Open Salon. Here’s the latest missive my corn-siderable charm hath inspired:

peace4 wrote >>
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“Nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come.” Victor Hugo

Occupy Wall Street and it's many off-shoots seem to have taken the power structure in this country completely by surprise. But like the attack on 9-11 and the housing crash, there… Read full post »