The Department of Homeland Security is not a campaign ad. It is not a cable-news green room with a bigger budget, or a vanity social media p...

"The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy or fairness or...

Talk about your absurd contradictions. There's something Onionesque about watching the Kansas GOP supermajority christen a “Charlie Kir...

There is a particular kind of cowardice that wears a necktie and speaks in complete sentences. It smells like caution, sounds like reason, a...

I live here. You (presumably) live here.  We stand in line at the grocery store with city workers, teachers, dishwashers, kids in hoodies an...

Minneapolis is watching the machine do what it always does after it kills: it tightens its tie, straightens the paperwork, and tries to make...

 Well, here we are. A few years older and none the more wiser.  I thought we were pretty much over this shit, but I've come to realize t...

Say what you will about Pres. Trump. His ego is brobdingnagian. Of civil rights, he’s no champion. And as for leadership, well it’s clear hi...

"It’s just a game," a friend posted on Facebook recently. A rather sophisticated augmented reality game where you use your mobi...

No doubt Ukraine, or as I call it "The Ukraine" has seen some setbacks recently. The economy is struggling, more so than the m...

This amazingly awesome satire series by Wired stars John Hodgman as an aging NSA agent who reminds me quite a bit of Uncle Nick . And, it...

I just hope you knuckleheads made the right decision. tagged: YouTube , Tuesday , video , Simpsons , Kodos , humor , politics

For what it's worth, I predicted ages ago (and soon to be proved accurately) that Obama would be elected to a second term. But as far a...

Did you see this? You might have heard about this. There was a news blurb and a couple of people were mentioning it on Facebook and other so...

I've tried to make a real effort this year to steer clear of political topics, partly because nothing has changed even with a new batch ...

I was humbled to get some link love from the great Joel Mathis at Cup o'Joel who latched onto my continued frustration with both polit...

The Facebook message came through pretty early this morning. "I bet you're on cloud nine with the big Republican takeover in last n...

The comment from Lodo came, not apropos of the post it was on but certainly an apt continuation of a conversation we've been having he...

Okay, now that we've solved the health care crisis and everyone is living healthy long lives with instant access to the best medical car...

Remember a couple of years ago when I did the Separated at Birth with Sarah Palin and Liz Lemon and then Saturday Night Live picked up on m...