During the holiday season, most people are filled with goodwill. Except for me. My fellow political aficionados will understand what I mean. As your family sips eggnog together Christmas Day, it will be impossible not to rub the recent congressional defeat into your Republican uncle’s face. And your vegetarian cousin who insists on wearing clothes […]
Author Archives: Katie Strickland
If it takes a draft to make us care, so be it
We need a draft. Britain has said it will withdraw thousands of troops from Iraq by the end of 2007, and Poland has promised to bring all 900 of its soldiers home by the same time. Since giving up is not one of President Bush’s options, we’re going to have to make up for this […]
Stay out of our sex lives
Sex is really, really bad. It’s so awful that the government is going to spend millions of dollars of your tax money attempting to convince you not to have it. Oh, unless you’re married. Then you can have a blast. The Department of Health and Human Services is going to allow states to use millions […]
Celebrating our political pastime
The real winner of Tuesday’s elections was CNN. I settled down into my couch around 7 p.m. with an arsenal of chips and soda and my laptop to get me through the next five hours of insipid news coverage. Election coverage is for political geeks what the Super Bowl is for men with beer bellies. […]
Battle of the Columnists: Katie Strickland
Governor: Arnold Schwarzenegger. The only candidate with any pizzazz, porn-star Mary Carey (one of her campaign slogans was “Finally, someone you want to be screwed by”), dropped out of the race . I’m not voting for Schwarzenegger because I admire him or I think he’s doing a swell job, but because he’s just as lame […]
Sellouts prosper? Sign me up!
I just realized that my earning potential is much higher than I thought. In 2004 the Department of Education used your tax money to pay conservative commentator Armstrong Williams $240,000 to promote the No Child Left Behind Act. Williams was chosen because he is black ““ the department hoped to sway black voters. According to […]
Time for Democrats to start braying
You know what we need? More jackasses in politics. Sure, the right has plenty of rude, obnoxious talking heads, but what about the liberals? Our stock of crazy people is pathetic by comparison. During the 2004 Iowa caucus, Howard Dean, in a moment of pure lunacy after a speech, shouted “Eeeeeaaahhh!” and was committed to […]