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Seriously, How Many Times Do I Have to Email You For You To Understand I'm Not a Spammer?

JEBraun — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:03:32 -0800

Two days ago, I received an email from a friend of mine. The email contained a forwarded SPAM email which tried to sell my friend some super Viagra or something like that. While I was still marvelling at how accurate targeted email lists had become, and while I was still conjuring up the many insults about my friend's manhood that are worthy only of good friend lest you get your teeth knocked ...

Maybe After the Jobs Summit, We Can Invite Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Back to the White House for a Beer

JEBraun — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:59:26 -0800

President Obama has announced that he is going to have a Jobs Summit in December.For the love of God, Barack, can't you do anything without some grandstanding? You've finally come to accept the fact that joblessness is a problem - despite your claims that the stimulus has created or saved - what is it now? - a gajillion jobs? Something gets my Spidey senses a-tingling over your numbers, though I ...

Is It Politically Incorrect to Call Political Correctness "Jackassery"?

JEBraun — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:11:52 -0800

As I was driving into work today, I noticed a bumper sticker on a car in front of me and one lane over. It was one of those bumper stickers that I don't think you're meant to read unless the car is parked, because it's so small you have to get dangerously close to the other car and take your eyes off the road in order to read it. Mind you, I'm not saying I did that!! Goodness, no. I just happen ...

Good Luck, Mr. Christie. We're All Counting On You.

JEBraun — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:35:28 -0800

I'm proud of my fellow New Jerseyans today. Congratulations to Chris Christie on winning the gubernatorial race (alas, it will be quite some time before I get to use 'gubernatorial' as much as I have in recent days...). Anyway, we'll get back to Chris Christie in a moment.I want to temper my pride in my fellow New Jerseyans just a drop because while we went out and crusaded against, in large ...

Vote Early, Vote Often (OK, Just Kidding About the Often Part)

JEBraun — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:50:14 -0800

November 2. Day of the Dead in Mexico. While that sounds creepy and may invoke images of restless spirits, vengeful poltergeists, animated skeletons and lumbering zombies, the reality is that all that occurs on the Day of the Dead is that dead people are entitled to a free dessert at Applebees.Kind of anti-climactic, I know. Those Mexicans just don't know how to do a holiday. At least we would ...

Fantasy or Reality? Jon Corzine, Nancy Pelosi, and Slutty Halloween Costumes

JEBraun — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:43:36 -0700

I'm going to borrow a format from one of my favorite fantasy football weekly articles and use it for politics and current events. The format is called Fantasy/Reality. The gist is, I take a statement of conventional wisdom and describe why it's either fantasy or reality. Simple, right? Ok, let's go.Governor Corzine, being the financial genius he is, foresaw the impending recession and set New ...

Debate Over Whether or Not to Vaccinate is Irrelevant When There's No Vaccine

JEBraun — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:11:35 -0700

Forgive me if I'm a bit grumpier than usual today - I just finished a two-hour long commute to work because, apparently, if it rains, it means you should slow all the way down to 4 m.p.h. - even on straight, 5-lane highways. Sure, a few so-called "overturned tractor-trailers" didn't help the situation, but seriously people, step on it!Okay, now that I got that off my chest, anybody out ...

Politics Gives Me Weird Dreams

JEBraun — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:50:31 -0700

Before I begin, I would like to just state that, as a Mets fan, there can be NOTHING worse than a Yankees-Phillies World Series (from a sports point of view). Seriously, it's like asking me, "Which would you rather me do, stab a steel bristle brush through your left testicle or your right?" - regardless which I choose, the results are equally painful.Now that we've got that out of the ...

Chalk One Up for Freedom of the Press

JEBraun — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:53:40 -0700

Here is a good example of the White House's hypocrisy and it demonstrates that the real reason the administration is attacking Fox News is NOT that Fox News is not a real news outlet, but because the White House cannot tolerate any opinion that disagrees with theirs.First, background. In case you haven't noticed, the White House has declared a war on Fox News. The administration has not provided ...

Will We Fail Our Founding Fathers?

JEBraun — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:15:53 -0700

I'm currently finishing a book called Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution by A.J. Langguth and I have to say, I've learned a lot about our founding fathers. This isn't the American Revolution we get in school, which goes something like this:There was a massacre in Boston called the Boston Massacre. There was a revolt in Boston Harbor that wasn't really a tea party, but we called ...