Megan McArdle is back in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant with pride, because she works so damn hard for the money that paid for her $1500 nutchopper/heater/blender/death ray/calculator-that-doesn’t-omit-decimal-points thingamajig: I wanted to out myself before I put out the kitchen gift guide (going up later today!), but I was pretty sure I was going to [...]

John Hawkins has another one of his “poll” things up where he asks a bunch of third-string bloggers  (the type who live for an Ole Perfesser link as proof of their existence) who, in the post-Herman Cain Can’t Get Enough Of Your Love, Baby era  they want to represent the Republican Party at next year’s [...]

Recently over a dinner of roasted panda cheeks on a bed of quinoa and small easily-digested diamonds, Lady Lynne Forester Sniffnose Wobblebottom  LaDeeDah de  Rothschild and some of her rich pals  asked the help, “what exactly is the current mood of the common riff-raff these days, what with their #OccupyStuffBetterPeopleOwn and Tea Party That Is Not [...]

Despite spending most of the past summer and fall in Iowa, where he visited all 99 (but a bitch ain’t one) counties, Rick Santorum can’t seem to get any friction in America’s Cornhole state forcing Rick to watch as his well-lubricated Iowa organization slip-slides away into a froth of failure and poopy prospects. Okay. I’ll [...]

What ‘pnwed’ was to The Golden Age of Warcraft Nerdery,  being ‘pierced‘ or  ‘gave it a good piercing‘ will be to bloggy media criticism in honor of Mr. Charles P. Pierce who makes “I done stomped that sucker flat” look like puppy-snuggling Yes, if you are unusually dim, or unusually badly read, or four years [...]

Mormon golem Mitt Romney has to own up to being the Governor of Communist Taxachusetts, because too many people saw him in the state during the brief time that he was there and, rich as he is, even he doesn’t have enough money to whack everyone in the commonwealth. So he did the next best [...]

Pierce on tin-pot dictator Scott Walker: On Friday, Governor Scott Walker presided over the ceremonial lighting of the Christmas tree in the great rotunda of the state capitol, hard by the bust of Fightin’ Bob LaFollette, which looked very much like it might leap from its pedestal and bite him in the balls. He dedicated [...]

We are all Tom Joad now. ….and What JK Rowling never told you about Harry Potter. I now look forward to someone at Reason complaining about the cavalier attitude toward property rights in Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

Parade Magazine, the weekly periodical for people who find Reader’s Digest too erudite, has an absolutely fascinating interview with incredibly life-like human simulacrum Mitt Romney conducted by professional sycophant for hire, David Gergen.  Were you an old person browsing through your Sunday paper looking for coupons for All Bran®, you might have run across this [...]

Football happens every week from August through January, but this is a once in a lifetime opportunity. Besides, we’ll probably talk about 70′s porn. Yeah. I knew that would get your attention….