Barking Rabbits

I think I am. All the presents are unwrapped and stowed in their proper places. All those annoying television commercials for Christmas gi...

I am so tired of this. After an election that was as clear-cut as elections are going to be these days, all the powers that be in the White...

An article in the WashPo sort of sets up the coming scenario. Bush is going to reject most, if not all, of the recommendations out of the B...

Just sort of...... burned out. Ever since the election results, I have had a hard time getting up any sort of enthusiasm for posting much. ...

I found myself almost going through the motions on Thanksgiving. We visited some of my wife’s friends, had Thanksgiving dinner, watched a l...

No, not the war or the secret plot for all Republicans ousted from office to come in and stage a coup to dispose those nasty decadent Democr...

One very prevalent television commercial these days normally seen during football games (and probably NASCAR races which I never, ever watch...

Charles Rangel (NY-D) has renewed his call to reinstate the military draft. Predictably, the Democratic leadership immediately came out and...

Just a couple of weeks ago, there was another Rodney King-type video of LA police on top of a guy who was laying on the pavement, and the po...

This is insane . More than insane. There isn’t a word in the English language, or any other language on the face of the Earth, I suspect, ...

You know, I am not terribly surprised that there are many racist, xenophobic and hysterical people in the United States. Fear, ambition, an...

O.K., is it just me? Why have the prices at my local gas station suddenly jumped up 35 cents a gallon the two weeks after the election, aft...

I haven't been posting lately, for several reasons. Not feeling very well, busy weeknights, tickets to the local college basketball tea...

Maybe one of these days, I will get around to posting about something else besides politics and elections. Hopefully, things will start goi...

I probably should have posted this one prior to the election, but I was too wound up about the election to think about much else. Maybe now...

The fallout of the blowout election is occurring all over the place in the ranks of the Republicans and their conservative followers. It is...

I went to bed last night (after the election) jubilant, and I am not in that mood very often. Just not my style, really. I just hope that ...

This is a repost of this one from a few days ago. Blogger seems to have mysteriously "disappeared" it.) This story , via Taylor M...

There is so much hypocrisy in the Republican Party and their supporters these days. You can hardly pick up a newspaper or go on-line withou...

Here’s the link . As President Bush throws himself into the final days of a particularly nasty campaign season, he’s settled into a familiar...

Boy, this conservative is really upset. I admire John Cole for writing this and admitting his disillusionment with his identified political...

As it is Halloween evening, I’ll take a break from ranting about politics for a bit. I am really getting into a rut. So, I’ll talk about o...

This is a pretty amazing column by one Lt. Gen. WILLIAM E. ODOM (Ret.) that was run in the L.A. Times today. I don’t know if you have to be...

I would hate to be Press Secretary for President Bush. The gyrations these guys have to go through to avoid stating the obvious is amazing....

I am going to admit something here that I have been considering privately for the last year or so, ever since it became evident that, not on...

George’s latest limbo attempt with the English language comes as he is attempting to explain whether we are winning or losing in Iraq, what ...

I am just so overwhelmed by all that is going on and the kitchen sink of dirty tricks and downright sleaze that the Rethugs are throwing up ...

The Rethug party sure is finally exposing what is really inside its' soul. This is being exposed sort of like the Monster From The Id s...

I was in my early teens during the late 60’s, and was terribly unaware of what was going on in the country. Almost all I know about that pe...

Sooo….. George Bush went on TeeVee this last weekend, being asked some interesting questions by George Stephanopoulos. Here is something t...

This (via Truthdig) is all over the internet , but is not reaching the mainstream media. I did see that the Washington Post had a story on ...