Here it is again
JPMorgan Chase, the largest bank in the United States, said Thursday that it lost $2 billion in the past six weeks in a trading portfolio designed to hedge against risks the company takes with its own money. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) Another bank bets on credit default swaps and loses — this time J.P. Morgan-Chase. CEO […]14 years ago
We found an issue to replace gay marriage!
A hot-looking Mom breast feeding her 3-year-old son as he stands on a toddler chair. In the 24 hours since TIME Magazine sent out that photo, a nation that is normally outraged at BAD mothers who neglect their children was suddenly outraged at a good mother — and that was only reinforced by the way […]14 years ago
Obama’s stand on gay marriage IS NOW FULLY EVOLVED!
Tom Douglas holds up his James Beard Outstanding Restaurateur Award at 97.3 KIRO FM’s Ross and Burbank Show. (MyNorthwest.com/Jamie Griswold) The president’s stand on gay marriage is now fully evolved! After languishing in the primordial ooze for several years, it learned to walk on all fours, and finally stood upright. And the consensus seems to […]14 years ago
Is it really what it seems?
All of us are obviously delighted that al Qaeda’s latest plot was foiled. And what a story! The guy who volunteered to blow up his new improved underwear was actually a double agent! Planted by Saudi Arabia! And the CIA wanted to keep him there, but this plot was apparently so far along that the […]14 years ago
Will we ever be able to relax again?
Airline passengers go through the Transportation Security Administration security checkpoint at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, in Atlanta. (AP) “We’re confident that this device and any individual that might have been designed to use it are no longer a threat to the American people,” said John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security, assuring us […]14 years ago
You never know what will change history
France has a new President, a socialist elected to undo the austerity policies that have left so many people unemployed. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler) France has a new President. Francois Hollande — and he’s an unabashed socialist. A socialist elected to undo the austerity policies that have left so many people unemployed. It appears to signal […]14 years ago
The trench warfare continues
A listener sent me a video of Dan Savage, who started the anti bullying “It Gets Better”campaign, delivering a blunt speech to high school journalists at a convention in Seattle that the Bible’s teaching on homosexuality is BS: “We can learn to ignore the bull**** in the Bible about gay people,” said Savage. Just as […]14 years ago
That lovable socialist liar
We think of politics as divisive, but if you look at what’s been happening in the last few days, we are being offered a remarkable lesson in letting bygones be bygones. Look at the former rivals of Mitt Romney. (AP/Henny Ray Abrams) We think of politics as divisive, but if you look at what’s been […]14 years ago
More Americans burn their bridges
We’re hearing that Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng DOESN’T want to stay in China after all. He really wants to come to the United States(AP Photo/U.S. Embassy Beijing) Now we’re hearing that Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng DOESN’T want to stay in China after all, but really wants to come to the United States. I was happy […]15 years ago
May Day; May Day!
Some cities saw otherwise peaceful May Day demonstrations disrupted by anarchists using a tactic called the Black Bloc. (AP/Seattlepi.com, Joshua Trujillo) Some cities saw otherwise peaceful May Day demonstrations disrupted by anarchists using a tactic called the Black Bloc. These are actually white males who dress in black, and carry metal poles which they use […]15 years ago
The Internet Will Never Fly
From former Dave Ross Show producer Loren Skaggs… …a 1995 prediction from Physicist Clifford Stoll, who waged a noble but ultimately futile movement to hang on to typewriters and face-to-face contact. Excerpt: “What’s missing from this electronic wonderland? Human contact. Discount the fawning techno-burble about virtual communities. Computers and networks isolate us from one another. […]15 years ago
Twenty years since the riots in Los Angeles
This April 29, 1992 file photo shows several buildings in a Boys Market shopping center fully engulfed in flames before firefighters can arrive as rioting erupted in South-Central Los Angeles. Before order was restored, 55 people were dead, 2,300 injured and more than 1,500 buildings were damaged or destroyed. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File) It’s been […]15 years ago
Beware of talking pineapples
It was one of those reading tests that we all dreaded. Eigth graders in New York were given a passage from a book by childrens’ author Daniel Pinkwater about a race between a talking pineapple and a hare. All the animals end up betting on the pineapple, reasoning that a tropical fruit would never challenge […]15 years ago
Enemy hackers?
Never mind missiles, never mind Iran’s nukes, there’s an even spookier threat out there: Cybermissiles launched by enemy hackers aimed at banks. And according to testimony in Congress today, the latest threat is apparently from Iran, which blames us for the computer virus that targeted its nuclear program. And I know it’s hard to grasp […]15 years ago
Unconscionable?
While we await the Supreme court’s verdict on Obamacare, here comes another a glimpse into the Pre- Obamacare we enjoy right now. The Minnesota Attorney General has released a report on a hospital debt collection company which came up with a sure-fire way to make sure patients pay up: embedding their debt collectors in delivery […]15 years ago
Nobody wants to be vice president
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla, is campaigning hard not to be vice president. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File) With Mitt Romney cruising to the nomination, a new race is underway — a race NOT to be his running mate. You see, the vice presidential race is unique. It’s like an upside down presidential race. No one […]15 years ago
The Secret Service clears Ted Nugent
“Ted Nugent — Motor City Madman, now constitutional activist, sat down with the Secret Service, probably to discuss some remarks made during a broadcast from the NRA convention. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File) Ted Nugent, Motor City Madman, now constitutional activist, sat down with the Secret Service, probably to discuss these remarks made during a […]15 years ago
Watch your Okole, America
“I hope his wife kicks his Okole,” said Palin about a secret service agent. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) As if this Secret Service scandal wasn’t weird enough already. “Now this is getting weirder by the minute,” said Greta Van Susteren. Greta Van Susteren talks to Sarah Palin about HER link to the secret Service scandal. Because […]15 years ago
Those Secret Service agents just didn’t have anything to do
The government continues to investigate why a Secret Service agent would end up in a shouting match with a prostitute in Cartagena. But I think The New York Times has it figured out: reporter William Neuman talked to the woman, and she told him she’s not a prostitute, she’s an escort. People walk past Hotel […]15 years ago
Fear and trembling in the board room
The Occupy movement may have fizzled, but there was a revolt of another kind on Wall Street yesterday: Shareholders of Citigroup did something that hardly ever happens. They looked at the pay package of Citigroup’s top executives, including the $14.8 million in pay and bonuses that CEO Vikram Pandit was scheduled to collect, and they […]15 years ago
What is in those tax returns?
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at the National Rifle Association convention in St. Louis, Friday, April 13, 2012. (AP Photo) At a January debate, CNN’s John King asked Mitt Romney — since your own father released 12 years of tax returns back when he was running for the Republican nomination, why don’t […]15 years ago
Wheels up, hair down
The Secret Service sent home some of its agents for misconduct that reportedly occurred at the Hotel El Caribe in Cartagena, Colombia before President Barack Obama’s arrival on Friday for the Summit of the Americas. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara) Secret Service scandal deepens; 11 placed on leave The president isn’t quite sure yet whether to be […]15 years ago
Anyone can be creative
This is the song Bob Dylan wrote after he had given up writing: Dylan was feeling burned out, so he rented a cabin in upstate, NY and one day, June of 1965, the words to “Like a Rolling Stone” just started flowing. Dylan’s breakthrough is the opening scene in Jonah Lehrer’s book “Imagine” in which […]15 years ago
The comment that started the latest media migraine:
In this March 19, 2012 file photo, Ann Romney, wife of Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks in Springfield, Ill. (AP Photo) “His wife has actually never worked a day in her life,” CNN’s Hilary Rosen playing into this idea that Ann Romney is a Stepford wife. President Obama immediately condemned the […]15 years ago
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