Author: Curmudgette

Reagan’s Legacy: Executive Amnesia

The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory, c.1954 Dali, Salvador There’s a very clever graphic on the cover of The Huffington Post this morning. A Warholesque pattern of 122 images of ex-Gonazales aide Kyle Sampson....

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On Being Mr. Buttle

I was pondering just yesterday the plight of Mr. Buttle. How many of us are going to end up just like him; tortured to death because of a typo? See I can never decide what’s worse. The loss of our civil liberties or the...

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"Law & Order" Star Bashes Gandhi

As protesters rang in the fifth year of Operation Endless Bloody Occupation with demonstrations around the country, Fred Thompson lashed out at that favorite whipping-boy of all chicken-hawks: Mahatma Gandhi. To follow...

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The Stepford Candidate

Who replaced Hillary Clinton with an animatronic doll? I liked the old one better. The one who was a chronic Glamour-don’t, with the silly headband and doughty clothes. The one who made gaffes about not being Tammy...

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NYC Jumps on Censorship Bandwagon

Make no mistake. I hate the n-word. I just hate censorship more. New York’s resolution is not binding and merely calls on residents to stop using the slur. Leaders of the nation’s largest city also hope to set an...

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