THE WEBSTERIANSarah Palin, never a stranger to controversy, decided to weigh in on the one raging over the plans to build a mosque near Ground Zero -- that is, a mosque and community center two blocks north of where...
ANTHONY QUINN & FRIENDS37"You are a king, then!" said Pilate. Jesus answered, "You are right in saying I am a king. In fact, for this reason I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify...
A flying pig is an adynaton, that is a figure of speech in the form of hyperbole taken to such extreme lengths as to suggest a complete impossibility. Thus the popular saying that something will happen "when pigs fly" or...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS A RECENT TEA PARTY RALLYWho the hell is Mark Williams anyway? Mark Williams is Mark Williams is an American radio host and author (Books: It's Not Right Versus Left, It's Right Versus Wrong; Exposing the Socialist...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQUmHqlPf5Y There is the specific and then there is the general. We tend to use a specific example to prove the general rule. There are obvious flaws in this approach to rhetoric. A specific example cannot prove the...
A FREQUENT FLYERI found this little tidbit at The Beast today: What hath Sully wrought? Every single goose--including the babies--was rounded up, put in crates, and gassed to death in Brooklyn's Prospect Park last week. The geese--about 400...
For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; For want of the shoe, the horse was lost; For want of the horse, the rider was lost; For want of the rider, the battle was lost; For want of...
Geoffrey Chaucer Catch Me If You Can is a 2002 American crime film based on the life of Frank Abagnale Jr., who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars by posing as a Pan American World Airways...
SCROOGE McDUCKThis somehow led to a lesson Paul said Kentuckians should hold dear: Sure there are "problems" with the way America deals with the poor, but when they think about it, poor folks should thank goodness they're not stuck...
PINK LEMONADE KOOL-ADERepublican Senate candidate Sharron Angle has moderated a host of policy positions in her transition from a primary candidate to general election contender battling Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. One thing she has not backed away...
SIXPENCE & PRIDE Sing a song of sixpence a pocket full of rye, Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie. When the pie was opened the birds began to sing, Oh wasn't that...
Okay, so who is Sharron Angle and what is her angle? Well here are some of the wonderful new ideas from one of the new stars of the Republican Party. Fluoride is a communist plot Abortion causes breast cancer. The...
BILL BENNETT IN AN EARLIER LIFEBut that was then. Today, American workers face the worst job market since the Great Depression, with five job seekers for every job opening, with the average spell of unemployment now at 35...
Lapels are a fashion addition to certain pieces of clothing worn by men and women alike. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacket_lapel There are three basic forms of lapels: notched, peaked and shawl. Notched lapels, the most common, are usually seen on business suits.[1]...
MICHELLE BACHMANN (At a recent rally for Teabaggers)NIKI HALEY No. Nikki Haley voted AGAINST the stimulus package pushed down from Washington. On May 12th of last year, she voted against S.577, the bill that ultimately forced Governor...
I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco. BABE RUTHX-Rays of Dizzy Dean's head showed nothing. PBS BASEBALL HISTORY Dizzy Dean was one of...
Born in Baltimore, Maryland on July 2, 1908, Thurgood Marshall was the grandson of a slave. His father, William Marshall, instilled in him from youth an appreciation for the United States Constitution and the rule of law. After completing...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZThquH5t0ow Still, the world's oldest known leather shoe, revealed Wednesday, struck one of the world's best known shoe designers as shockingly au courant. "It is astonishing," Blahnik said via email, "how much this shoe resembles a modern...
JUST DON'T CALL ME LATE FOR DINNERYou know, one of the benefits of school being out, in addition to your kids losing weight because they're starving to death out there because there's no school meal being provided, one...
GOYA'S FRENCH PENALTYPrinces of note, old, new, don't fail: Beg the king's pardon for me, and seal, And a basket to raise me, I'll sit upon: So pigs behave, to each other, they say, When one pig squeals,...
