In today's stump speech, a man who is rapidly becoming famous for his willingness to say anything, regardless of it's veracity, manages to stumble upon Obama's chief vulnerability: A propensity to promise big, deliver little, and then shrug off his shortcoming as doing the best he could.

Thus, focussing on the limping economic recovery, Romney jabs that Obama favors words over action..

The facile rule of thumb pursuant to which certain drone deaths are excluded from even the minor inconvenience attendant upon acknowledging that regrettable (though purportedly unavoidable, thus justifiable) "collateral damage" has occurred turns out to have been made public at a particularly inconvenient time.

We are painfully reminded this day how much damage can be done when a poorly placed political hack elevates the propaganda needs of her party over the demands of public safety.

Facing extractions of capital more or less equivalent to the Versailles Treaty reparations (once creating a flow in the opposite direction, so to speak) the Greek people have voted for a parliament in which 60% of the votes will belong to anti-bailout parties.

Whether a workable coalition emerges from this caldron of cross complaints and resentments or whether a further election in two months is called, the message to Berlin is unmistakable.

'Sama sends orders: "Do your best to shoot down Obama or Petreus, but hold your fire if it's Biden"

Once we stop chuckling over the implied low evaluation placed by our nation's enemies on the man standing "a heartbeat away from the presidency", it occurs to wonder why  an administration ordinarily on a mission to control the flow of information circulated this tidbit from among the gigabytes collected at Abbottabad.

I have a dream.

It has nothing to do with the end of racism.  My dream is to see the look on  Rush Limbaugh's bloated face as he paddles by in his Waterworld survival kayak.

I may yet see it.

Everything they said would  happen is happening, but sooner.

The last time I bought sneakers (Nikes, sz 15), the cute girl at the register asked me "Are these for you?  Oooh, junk!". (Wherein the noumena of the large footed.)

I do not bring this up in an act of shameless self-promotion (ed note: Yeah, right!) but as the result of random thought associations provoked by the fortuitous juxtaposition in the Times of two stories from what we may (without condescension) call the frontiers of sexual behavior.

A recent meander through vale of crazy,  where the really, really, wild things are, has acquainted me with the hope evinced by Ron Paul's peeps that somehow they will snatch the Repugnant party right from under Kid Repugnant himself, when they get to the big throw down in Tampa.

Yeah, maybe.

The reported level of buyers remorse now expressed by previously enthusiastic consumers of the military model for handling international terrorism can easily be explained as a public relations fumble by propagandists doing the best they could with poor material, or the shortcomings of execution that have hobbled an otherwise sound strategy of enhanced domestic security premised upon "fighting them over there" a little more vigorously, and hence successfully, next time.

The wheels of justice grind slowly--painfully so.

We who have long looked for a Bush appearance in the dock at the Hague for his admitted war crimes, learn with pleasure that an anticipated trip to Canada will present a further opportunity for a last minute change of travel plans.

Shocking numbers from Afghanistan, show just how wide is the gulf between our GI's and their Afghan "partners"

With hundreds of thousands of troops passing through the country between Jan 2010 and December 2011, only 30 Americans managed to hook-up with that fine Mazar-i-Sharif hash.

A piddling 26 were helped to "get well" by friendly afghan opiate dealers.

Learning that the evil genius Moriarty David Koch is throwing down big time to protect his favorite toady, Governor (for now) Scott Walker, the people must rise up like a wounded  beast and here draw the high water mark of the counter revolution.

We all know the painful tally of Federal Judge openings to which Prez has neglected to make any appointment.

Well, the only time he's worse at making appointments is when he actually makes one.

Perhaps I am overly sensitive on this issue, because my third wife, the hooker, said that whenever an American Bar Association or Trial Lawyers Convention was in San Fran, the local sex workers knew that they were in for an unusal amount of price negotiation.

Now, I should not have to point out that renting sex is a very personal transaction, on both sides, as it were.

Hence, it is plain bad manners to convey the following message:

"That is a perfectly nice hundred dollar pussy but it is not a nice three hundred dollar pussy."

Perhaps under the goad of a temporary insanity produced by the juxtaposition of intense hypocrisy and alcohol, John Boehner was so carried away today that he demanded restoration (plus) of AFDC (at trebled levels of support) so that all women might have access to the noble choice to stay home with their children.

No, he didn't.

But you see what I mean--The Pugs can't get out of their own way they are lining up so fast to crap on Hilary Rosen and entering needlepoint classes so they can produce appropriate wall hangings.

We are bemused, not for the first time, by an organized jailbreak that this weekend turned 400 Pakistani Taliban loose onto the streets.

Probably the biggest fish to slip back into the stream was already under death sentence for attempting to assassinate Mussharaf.

Without dwelling overlong on the individual stories, we may profitably wonder how it can be that Af/Pak jails are so porous

Dating back to somewhere in the seventies, a totally unconstitutional and certainly illegal and discriminatory strangle hold has been placed upon the right of women who are otherwise covered for legal medical procedures, to access their insurance for abortion services.