ACORN to partner with Roman Polanski on daycare center chain

Washington, D.C., Sept. 29 — ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis, the sole black person in the organization’s leadership, announced today that ACORN has signed a deal with film director Roman Polanski to create a new kind of daycare center at ACORN offices across the U.S. “Thanks to those two crazy kids and their hidden video camera, …

Krauthammer on Kristol and the evolution of marriage

Charles Krauthammer published a lovely appreciation of the late Irving Kristol on Friday, Sept. 25. I have bolded the lines that leapt out at me because of how they apply to the objection of social conservatives that homosexuals should not have marriage equality because marriage should never be re-defined, or evolve: His gloriously unheroic view …

Healthcare choice … very nice!

Cuban Diva BFF and I talk on the phone almost every day and somehow this Wendy’s commercial from the 1980’s came up a few days ago. She tracked it down so I am embedding it here. I think it’s one of the funniest commercials of all time. But it’s also an illustration in 59 seconds …

UPDATED — Is Kejda Gjermani working as a concern troll to support Islamic jihad?

I noticed in my 20’s the approach an acquaintance of mine used when he was asked a question by a pair of young women that he didn’t really want to answer. He emitted a torrent of words like a squid squirts ink and kept talking until they heartily repented of questioning him and had vowed …

Stacy, do you take your coffee with urine, strychnine or arsenic?

Stacy is giving lessons today on “How to offend a woman.” It ends not with a cry, but a demand for coffee. Stacy, if you want me to get you coffee BECAUSE I am a woman, I’m going to need to know how you take it — with urine, strychnine or arsenic? Name your poison. …

No venue is too humble for Obama to use to apply the lipstick of his rhetorical powers to sell the pig of Obamacare

Interesting News Items has the story here. Yes, I know this is the third time I’ve used the expression that Obama is applying “the lipstick of his rhetorical powers to the pig of Obamacare.” I coined it! Update: now it is “the lipstick of his rhetorical powers TO SELL the pig of Obamacare.” I want …

'A racist is a conservative winning an argument with a liberal'

Apparently I caught the two most important moments of yesterday morning’s Obamathon to put the lipstick of Obama’s rhetorical powers on the pig of Obamacare. I’m guessing this because these are the moments I see others have selected to write about. They are: (1), George Stephanopoulos asking Obama if mandating everyone buy health insurance (or …

Michelle Obama, if you are going to wear sofa and curtain fabric, Carol Burnett shows how to pull it off

I believe the parody of Gone With The Wind in the clips below is the funniest comedy skit of all time. And I believe the moment in the second clip that Carol Burnett came down the stairs is the funniest moment in comedy of all time. I am old enough that I was watching “The …

First Lady Michelle Obama unites the beauty of Eleanor Roosevelt with the style of Mamie Eisenhower and the warmth and charm of Mary Todd Lincoln

Until today, I swore that I would never make fun of Michelle Obama’s appearance. After all, age and adversity have faded my youth and beauty and expanded my waistline. I can’t get a good haircut to save my life since I moved from the D.C. area. And dressing well has been out of reach financially …