"Since the dawn of time, mankind has wondered: is there any creature more powerful than Marmaduke..."

"... our awful tormentor, who rules over this plane of existence with gore-drenched fangs?"

Scenery chewing in the Theater of Outrage over Wayne LaPierre's unremarkable news conference.

Read the transcript of what LaPierre said , if you haven't already, so you know what the purveyors of outrage are characterizing for the...

Lower left-hand corner of a magazine is a monument to things not being anywhere nearly as good as they are said to be.

AND: This seems to be the post where I should remind you to use my Amazon por tal, and let me just recommend: "Betsey Johnson Women...

"I had my tonsils out and was in the Evelyn Nursing Home feeling sorry for myself. Wittgenstein called."

Wrote Fania Pascal, back in the 1930: I croaked: “I feel just like a dog that has been run over.” He was disgusted: “You don’t know what a d...

"Do you agree or disagree with this statement: The most frightening words you could hear are 'I’m from the government and I’m here to help'?"

Goofy poll question requires people to puzzle over whether to take jokey hyperbole literally. But 32% of likely U.S. voters did agree with t...

Absurd hyperventilating about Romney's not completely quick journey toward the GOP nomination.

I'm talking about stuff like this : A Super Tuesday Nailbiter Puts Romney on His Heels With a shockingly thin margin in Ohio, Mitt Romne...

Wisconsin man faces 50 years in prison and a $90,000 fine on charges of forging signatures on recall petitions.

See, this is what you call the deterrent effect . Why not the death penalty? Surely, the threat of execution would keep these cheating conn...

"They're trying to crucify this man...."

Delving into a presidential candidate's record and criticizing him vigorously is crucifixion ? How about the way we failed — back in 200...

"It's like Christmas Eve, and everybody is opening their presents."

Guess what that refers to. Getting to sign a Recall Scott Walker petition.

Revenge, the Wikipedia article.

A report that the wife of Dominique Strass-Kahn is seeking "revenge" got me thinking about the specific meaning of the word. Sure...

Fads.

We're talking about fads. It was my observation that the best fads were in the 1960s, but you might think that's a subjective percep...

"That's what they love. That's what they get off on. That's their orgasm."

"They" = the "walking human debris... those savages that make up the Obama base." "What they get off on" = Oba...

"A few people lined the streets of the business and industrial park that houses ZBB, hoping to get a glimpse of Obama's motorcade when it arrived."

"A few people lined the streets"? How do a few people line streets? Or even one street? Instead of saying something ridiculously ...

The AP, describing a case the Supreme Court recently turned down, writes: "the school valedictorian strayed from an approved text to provide a graphic account of Jesus' crucifixion..."

That piqued my curiosity, and not just because I teach "Religion and the Constitution" and want to know about the cases in the ar...

"I will follow Osama Bin Laden to the gates of hell and I will shoot him with your products."

McCain. He's tough. But reasonable: "I certainly didn't mean I would actually shoot him. I am certainly angry at him, but I w...