In an effort to explain why the jury in the Kenny Gladney trial took less than the time it takes to watch an episode Law & Order: Special Victims Unit to return with a verdict of GTFO,  Andrew Breitbart’s crack team of trained bonobos have been working day and night and even through their naptimes [...]

You may remember Kenneth Gladney, the Joan of Arc/Stephen Biko/Spartacus of the teabagging set who got into a scuffle at a teabagger rally two years ago. You may also remember how his videotaped beat-down made the Rodney King video look like Attack of the Tickle Monsters and how, on the next day, a brave and [...]

Big Pharma has learned well from the oil companies: Escalating shortages of vital drugs could be affecting nearly every hospital in the nation, forcing delays or substitutions in patient care, diverting pharmacy staff from crucial duties and racking up $216 million in costs to manage the situation nationwide. That’s the take-away message of two new [...]

It’s probably no coincidence that two recent covers of Tina Brown’s Tiger Newsy Beat are pure tabloid fodder.  the first cover features the victim of a horrific car crash while the second one features  someone whose public life is a five-car pileup of greed, narcissism, stupidity, venality, and white trash livin’

I seriously have better stuff to do, but…. Paul Ryan, the Patron Saint of Austerity, Frugality, Abstemiousness, and Asceticism …. For You, was hanging out with a few of his economist bros at a local eatery, just pounding down some $350 bottles of wine over ultimate nachos and jalapeno poppers, when he was confronted by [...]

I’ll be taking the weekend off to: Celebrate my somewhat successful 56th rotation around the sun (effective today). Celebrate my 28th anniversary of being opposite married to the leggy and lithe mrs TBogg (effective tomorrow). Celebrate the L&T Casey’s acceptance into her first choice of grad schools. (Although she is taking a year off before [...]

Bassets do not like the heat. No. They do not like it at all. The humidity makes Wembley all fuzzy looking. After a very brief walk, he comes in the house and immediately throws himself on the  floor where it’s cooler. And Shut. Up. I know it’s probably hotter where you live.

I know I’m supposed to be celebrating the fact that the Casey Anthony non-conviction is proof that the system works and Nancy Grace is a horrible fucking person (which she is) but Jesus Fucking Christ: On the eve of her sentencing that could set her free for the first time in nearly three years, a [...]

There’s safety in numbers When you learn to divide How can we be in If there is no outside – Peter Gabriel Howard Kurtz reminds us that the Village Opining Society is a restricted club: Elizabeth Smart first came into our consciousness nearly a decade ago as a 14-year-old girl kidnapped from her Salt Lake [...]

Shorter Richard Epstein: Surely our economy would collapse if our Galtian Overlords are forced to fly first class with the common riff-raff. He actually wrote this: Take a chief executive officer who earns ten times as much as the president does per hour. What is gained by stranding him in an airport, having him wait [...]