There’s a lot of hot air pupping around about contraception falling under mandatory insurance coverage rules. Apparently some people don’t want their money going into a group coverage pool that pays for birth control on moral or religious grounds. I would like to offer this list of things my tax dollars have paid for despite [...]

Obama loses his cool during the State of the Union and tells Congress to go fuck themselves. The FCC shuts down production on all Real Housewives franchises on the grounds that they’re neither housewives nor real. Texas attempts to secede then is hurt when no one tries to stop it. Matt Lauer leaves the Today [...]

In no particular order… Robert Reich Even Ensler My grandmother Matt Damon Henry Rollins David Sedaris Barney Frank Nancy Pelosi Hillary Clinton Madeleine Albright Robin Williams Richard Holbrooke J.D. Salinger Nathan Lane Jon Stewart Stephen Colbert Jen Lancaster Bill Clinton Ann Richards Michelle Obama Al Franken Wanda Sykes Aaron Sorkin Jeff Koons Jim Henson

Public sector union employees – such as teachers – do get pensions. However, they often do not pay into Social Security and will not be able to draw SS benefits at retirement. They usually pay about 12% of their income to their pension fund because there’s no employer/employee split like there is with Social Security. [...]

Go to Disney World! Cut an album of duets with Hank Williams Jr. Market a line of hair care products on QVC. Take a pottery class. Pitch a remake of The Love Boat wherein she reprises Charo’s role. Write a novel about a poufy-haired tanning salon clerk who fucks steroid-riddled “gorillas” and…oh wait… Study English [...]

Banning previews for other DVDs on kids DVDs. Banning Ke$ha. Total elimination of private financing of political campaigns. Prohibiting stores from putting up holiday decorations more than four weeks before the holiday. Banning the “Christmas Shoes” song. Forcing the Redskins to change their team name to something less racist. Banning Facebook status updates urging other [...]

Real World: Supreme Court (This is what happens when the Justices stop being polite) Gay Bridezillas The Really Simple Life where the Kardashians go live like the Amish House Hunters Section 8 where a single mom on welfare tries to find safe housing for her kids So You Think You Can Legislate where rank amateur, [...]

The problem is not subject matter I have great ideas for posts here and for my column at the Washington Times Communities. The problem is the fact that they are buried in my head and need to be extracted one word at a time. That? Sounds like work. So here’s what I’ve been doing instead [...]

Chef Boy-R-Dee ravioli Looking at the gunk on a Biore pore strip when you peel it off Wearing bright colored eye-shadow Toddlers and Tiaras Cheez-Its Reruns of Charmed Gossip magazines Katy Perry The 40 Year Old Virgin Vampire books Pringles Celebrity memoirs Reruns of Beverly Hills 90210 Going to open houses for houses you can’t [...]

Yesterday, I read this little gem from Sarah Palin in the Washington Post. “In my opinion any mandate coming from government is not a good thing,” Palin told reporters outside Bunker Hill in Massachusetts, the latest stop on her whirlwind bus tour up the east coast that began on Sunday. She sure covered a lot [...]