I swear I am trying to ween myself off of the Chris Brown/Rihanna saga, but my best efforts are being thwarted by an endless parade of attention whores. Sean “It’s All About Me” Combs was on the Ellen Degeneres show yesterday and despite his best deflection techniques, Ellen pinned...

Marcy Wheeler: Five years ago today, Andy Card and Alberto Gonzales rushed to John Ashcroft’s ICU room to try to trick him into signing the re-authorization for George Bush’s illegal wiretap program over Jim Comey’s objections. Jim Comey arrived at the hospital in time to prevent C...

Only in San Fran Whacko: It’s not political, ideological or cultural, but San Francisco officials say they are seriously considering cracking down on one of the city’s most popular events in the growing “flash mob” phenomenon. This year’s Valentine’s Day pillow fi...

Here sit women in Kandahar, celebrating International Women's Day 2009. What is wrong with this picture? The audacious statement these women are making is to put a blue towel on their heads. Liberal lurkers of the Anti-Strib will surely make excuses for letting this kind of oppressive crap seep into...

Oh, here we go: Imagine collecting thousands of empty plastic bottles, lashing them together to make a boat and sailing the thing from California to Australia, a journey of 11,000 miles through treacherous seas. You’d have to be crazy, or trying to make a point. David de Rothschild is trying t...

This one isn't about weird American evangelists.  This is much more mainstream. What the fuck is wrong with these religious yahoos? I really find it hard to believe that in the 21st century, there still exist medieval cement-heads that actually believe that a pregnant 9-year-old who was raped and w...

Huh? What? Oh really? Ok, sorry. Newsweek spreads the taqqiya. (Thanks, Total) Actually, this is pretty damned infuriating The Price Of Instability To understand Islamists' appeal, consider basic needs.By Parag Khanna There is still no better theory of human motivation than Abraham Maslow's "hierarc...

El Rushbo, today: But I have an idea. If these guys are so impressed with themselves, and if they are so sure of their correctness, why doesn't President Obama come on my show? *** Let's go ahead and have a debate on this show. No limits.  Now that your handlers are praising themselves...

I left the house just before 9:00 AM to begin my hike through the snow and ice to get to work, and boy oh boy was it a mess. Thanks to the City’s budget deficit, the Mayor has cut back on ploughing and snow removal: the corner of 50th and Kingsessing Avenue was a thick sheet of ice, covering m...

It is with sadness that I must announce: Lucid Idiocy's man crush on Speaker of the House Glenn Richardson is over. It's not me, it's him. Mr. Speaker - It's hard for me to write this. I know we haven't been together long, but we were so good together. I mean, you said so many awesome ridiculous thi...