Election stories Vol. 884: In which I chortle as a muckraker gets smacked down by a veteran

So there’s this little kerfuffle see, because Barack Obama went out and claimed that his uncle helped to liberate Auschwitz, and then it turned out that it was another concentration camp (whoops! Now talking heads are calling it only “a work camp”, but see the end of this post for more on that), Buchenwald, that [...]

The Penguins are acting like fans

It’s not easy, sometimes, being a Red Wings fan.
Okay, I’m lying. A lot of the time it’s easy as hell; I get to watch elite players share the puck and play keepaway from lesser teams, the best management and scouting in North American sports continually drafts and develops all-stars, the finest captain in hockey history [...]

Media Fearmongering Frenzy: A How-To Guide

Step 1: Find something that is currently “in” with the 14-40 demographic. It could be a movie, TV show, video game, doll, book or all of the above. The medium doesn’t really matter. Actually, neither does the message but we’ll get to that shortly.
Step 2: Be sure to illustrate how widely popular the target pop [...]

Obama walks the walk

It’s one thing — as any Hillary Clinton or John McCain supporter will loudly tell you — to throw around fancy words and moving rhetoric about ‘change’, ‘hope’ and ‘a new kind of politics’. Any asshole can do it, really, they’ll say. And they’re right.
What takes guts is backing up that talk when it isn’t [...]

Shaolin’s Finest: the Detriot Red Wings

I could use this space to write a 1,000-word ‘I-told-you-so’ post right here that would sum up everything I’ve been saying for the last few years about the Detroit Red Wings. I could wax poetic about how much joy it brings me to see a team of supposedly-weak foreigners hit back whenever they’re attacked, score [...]

Part II: In which my festering hatred for Courtney Love continues to grow

Are you fucking kidding me?
Is nothing sacred to this whore?
Shoes? Converse fucking shoes? The same kind of Chuck Taylor one-stars that everybody remembers from this iconic photo.
You are selling your dead husband’s lyric sheets to be reprinted on shoes? The same brand of shoes that he died in?
Do you need money that badly? I thought [...]

Hillary fouls to extend the clock

I’m not going to beat around the bush, pander with platitudes or hand out any participation ribbons today. I’m not in the mood.
I’m too gleeful. Too happy that some Americans are smarter than I give them credit for. Too busy reading the comments posted on http://hillaryis44.org and drinking sweet, sweet tears.

It’s a shame that it’s [...]

Detroit Domination (aka The Post-Series Gloat)

First, I would like to sum up the Colorado Avalanche-Detroit Red Wings series with one picture, before I proceed to waste 1,000 words on it:

Now … to business. Aside from the schadenfreude of watching the Toronto Maple Leafs and their false playoff hopes, I can’t think of the last time I enjoyed a full-on belly [...]