Our country is as rotten as a Minneapolis bridge, yet our politics is more of a clown show than ever, with tire gauges and celebrity slurs instead of squirting flowers and slapsticks. The more completely these matters are devoted to symbols rather than issues, the more obsolete Parties become: they’re less political entities than production [...]
January 14, 2008 – 8:37 am
I support no one for president. Not. A. Soul. No matter who takes the wheel later this year, the ship will remain on the same destructive course for quite some time. Enjoy shuffleboard and bingo while you can, and try not to spill your Mai Tai on the deck.
Dennis Perrin
January 4, 2008 – 8:39 pm
If religion is the opiate of the masses, then the Democratic Party is the methadone of those who have learned to use a Web browser.
Michael J. Smith
Of course, it’s not religion that is the opiate, but politics. Anyone who thinks that one can harness the power of the State to steer the State in the [...]
November 23, 2007 – 10:23 am
“Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.”
Tom Lehrer
IOZ captures America’s narcissistic personality disorder in a single paragraph.
Since Americans evidently want to understand why it is that this chick who lives so beyond their means and capacity to imagine luxury so captivates their small, plain imaginations, I shall oblige with an explanatory note. Paris Hilton is America. Stupid, heedless, rich but not as [...]
February 22, 2007 – 9:50 pm
Richard Knoebel is the chief of police in Kewaskum, Wisconsin. Not long ago, distracted by a truck stopping on one side of the street, he drove past a school bus stopped with its lights flashing.
He then pulled himself over and wrote himself a ticket. $235. Even more amazing: 4 points on his driver’s license.
When we [...]
