Dead Cant Rant

You can always count on good ol’ Aretha Williams to get your heart started in the morning. Just like any good workout routine, your heart rate starts at a normal level and the farther you get in to the exercise your heart starts pumping and your blood pressure starts rising (the same way it did [...]

In The Filibuster Deal for Dummies, Spoons sums up the frustration many of us are experiencing after the so-called “deal” struck in the Senate earlier this week.

A burglar breaks into your house and steals $500.
Outraged, you declare, “I am going to put new locks on the doors, install an alarm, and sue that burglar to [...]

The French have reached another milestone in their struggle to redefine pessimism and depression to an ever-lower standard as they prepare for a resounding non! vote on the European Union Constitution:

THE leader of France’s ruling party has privately admitted that Sunday’s referendum on the European constitution will result in a “no” vote, throwing Europe into [...]

Thanks to the watchful eye of the Media Research Center, you can watch video of NBC’s latest smear against a conservative:

The season finale of NBC’s Law & Order: Criminal Intent, which aired Wednesday night, portrayed House Majority Leader Tom DeLay as a hero to white supremacist gun nuts suspected of murdering two judges, one of [...]

I know, blogging has been really light lately. Time is at a premium right now, and I’m also trying to both upgrade this site to WordPress 1.5 and redesign it at the same time.
Ouch.
Plus, Reneé and I are keeping ourselves busy. This past Sunday we went to the San Marcos air show specifically to check [...]

Revenge is a dish best served by anyone other than George Lucas. This man has single-handedly destroyed the greatest film series ever made. He kept America in suspense for six years as he fiddled with the magnificent creation that was (yes, was) Star Wars and it’s two sequels. Instead of a continuation of the epic [...]

Remember that fake grenade that was thrown at Bush last week while he was in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia?
It was live:

WASHINGTON (AP) - A hand grenade that landed within 100 feet of President Bush during his visit last week to a former Soviet republic was a threat to his life and the safety [...]

Given Newsweek’s recent Ratheresque screwup, Isikoff did the right thing by offering to resign. You’d think the deaths of more than a dozen people and the further erosion of the image of America in the Middle East would be seen as a severe infraction, and it has — but only by the "right wing", i.e. [...]

Reneé had this idea, and I just couldn’t resist…

1928. At first it was hard to imagine. This was your grandparents’ world, or maybe your great-grandparents’. But slowly and amazingly it became your world too. Maybe you just wished it was. Two handsome young people incredibly, achingly in love and married — to each other, no less, and raising a family together! But this [...]