Category: Edgewise

  • Sheriff Woody Reaches Out to the Iraqi People

    “Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way. As they do, Iraqis can be certain a free Iraq will always have a friend in the United States of America.” – President Bush, May 25, 2004 I’m reminded of Robin Williams years ago describing doing an impersonation of then-President Bush, Sr., saying you…

  • This is my show, so shut up!

    Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN Richard Holbrook was on Hannity & Colmes Laugh-In last night, and provided for us a classic Hannity moment. I forget exactly what point was being made, but Holbrook was questioning something about Bush’s speech and policy and of course, midway through making a salient point, Sean tried to shut…

  • Exit strategy theory

    Here’s an interesting theory about how the Bush folks may be planning to cut and run extract our forces from Iraq. We hand over sovereignty, the new government asks us to leave, we say “You didn’t say ‘Simon Says’,” they say it, and we leave.

  • The O’Reilly Sphincter

    As my first post to this blog, I must go to the first in no doubt a series of observations about one of my favorite analysts – Bill O’Reilly. The Bill O’Reilly Sphincter is big and scary, and a place from which many comically distorted facts and shameless self-promotions are pulled. I love Bill O’Reilly.…

  • Rumsfeld is toast

    The other day we watched Rumsfeld struggle through a press conference, pointing to some weak press release (no doubt on a Friday evening amidst 100 other unrelated press releases, but still how come no one picked it up in January? or is he lying? who’s checking this?), floundering without successfully wielding hardly any of his…

  • Your Monkey Man one-liner of the day

    Here’s a quick one-liner from my good pal, the Monkey Man: “George Bush isn’t a big picture guy — (oooh oooh! aaaah aaaah!) — he’s more of a big picture book guy.” And there it is: Your Monkey Man one-liner of the day.