To spare you all my thoughts on the WaPo food section's RIDICULOUS choice of pizza as the food to represent Phoenix in their Super Bowl article,* and to delay subjecting you to the multi-page, multi-video screed agains the lady in the Glade commercials that's been fermenting in my brain for months n...

A video clip recently featured on Illinois Review extolling Teddy Roosevelt as a "progressive conservative" has stirred some offline discussion about whether Republicans should be so proud of TR and his political ideology after all.  Indeed, Roosevelt is criticized in Jonah Goldberg's...

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That's right, four score and seven years ago today at Valley Forge, John F. Kennedy and the Lone Ranger chopped down the cherry tree that Squanto ate at the first Thanksgiving, and Paul Revere hung a light in the Alamo to alert Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders: "N00B, red team has taken teh control po...

Barack Obama is winning support for his White House campaign from an unlikely quarter - America's poker players....

I was going to take detailed notes during yesterday's games so that I could write an inning-by-inning recap. Then I realized that would interfere with my ability to drink beer, eat handheld food, and perform the various necessary rhythmic claps. So just the bones, then. MA and I were both running la...

It's Sunday morning in America, which in my house means the Sunday morning news talk shows are on the TV. Two and one-half hours of political silliness. Why bother? Because every Sunday patience is rewarded with a bit of wisdom. This morning, that came in the form of a single word uttered by Sen. Jo...

So the most important question: has Teddy rounded the corner from “loveable loser� to “too dumb to live?� (Someday, I will learn how to shoot video effectively. Someday) I mean, rooting for the underdog is one thing, but this is ridiculous. I know it’s a new stadium, and it was probably te...

It looks like Cindy "Cougar" McCain tapped into the campaign funds, got high as fuck, and created the latest ad for dear husband WALNUTS! This is really a great ad -- equal parts Stanley Kubrick, Teddy Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, all wrapped up with that Cougar Touch. Will British Winston save the...