Sheriff apparently not the concierge By way of Raw Story, Tonya Couch complained that it was too bright for her to sleep properly. Sheriff? “It’s jail, not a resort.” Just wait until […]
Pat McCrory, Art Pope, and the short unhappy career of a Poet Laureate…

The North Carolina Poet Laureate controversy isn’t about poetry, it’s about power – and probably about money, too… North Carolina has been in the news a lot lately – and not for […]
It’s SchadenFriday! Who really got theirs this week?

Sadly, nobody really. Surprising no one, I’m sure, it can be terribly difficult to find tales of people who actually get the full spectrum what’s coming to them. That’s the degree of […]
It’s SchadenFriday: three maybes and a real winner

It’s SchadenFriday! We’ve got four unlucky contenders for this week’s most deserved expression of schadenfreude. Three are heavy hitters, but honestly I don’t think their problems are nearly big enough yet. The […]
It’s SchadenFriday: Vatican gets punked on VSEL’s + From Russia with love

Whatever good The Church(TM) has managed to do over the years, and aside from skeptics’ observations that no good done by religion absolutely requires religion to be done, it’s a simple statement […]
It’s SchadenFriday: Weiner not getting a rise in polls + that poor pepper spray cop
I love to talk about my famous weiner. That is what you’d truly like to see. And if I run for office as a Weiner, Everyone will point and laugh at me. […]