Withholding Sex the Key to Political Reform?
Seems like Kenyan women are recycling a strategy first pioneered in 'Lysistrata'. In the classic comedy by Aristophanes, first performed in 411 B. C.: Lysistrata convinces the women of Greece…
By All Means, Fix the Veterans’ Home, and Fix Every Other Delaware Nursing Home
While the News-Journal's recent series chronicling chronic patient care problems at the Delaware Veterans' Home is invaluable, it misses the most vital point: The same conditions found at the Delaware…
More Tales from the Lunatic Fringe
Two more stories you couldn't make up even on days when you took acid by mistake. From the Moonie (aka Washington) Times: RNC to Vote on Resolution Labeling Democrats 'Socialists'…
Quote of the Day
Nobody cuts brutally to the quick quite like Vanity Fair's James Wolcott. On the wingnuts who drove Specter out of the Republican Party, he writes: Many of them appear defiantly…
What Should (and Just May) Happen in Pennsylvania
Being out of work has its dubious perks. One of which is unfettered access to television. And that is how El Somnambulo came to watch Arlen Specter's press conference today.…
‘Bulo’s Top 10 Targets for 2010-Numero Uno
24th Representative District-Bill Oberle If the House Republican Caucus of the past 20 years was, as a whole, the Buffalo Springfield (it wasn't, but bear with 'bulo), then Bill Oberle…
Read All About It in the Sunday Papers-April 26 Edition
LEAD STORY-The (UK) Independent: US Major Claims US Torture Has Caused More American Deaths than 9-11 Patrick Cockburn, winner of the 2009 Orwell Prize for Journalism, shows the counterproductivity of…
Breaking: Markell to Address Joint Session of General Assembly
When the Governor speaks to a joint session of the General Assembly in late April, you can bet it isn't to swap Easter/Passover stories. In fact, 'bulo can't remember the…
‘Bulo’s Top 10 2010 Republican Targets-#2
5th Senatorial District-Cathy Cloutier Caustic film critic Pauline Kael once famously called quasi-film star Don Ameche, "The zero who sings." Don Ameche, meet Cathy Cloutier. Like Ameche, Cloutier is likable…
Miss California: Just a Good Wholesome Christian with a Boob Job
Yep, suhprize, suhprize, Miss Holier Than Thou will be an introducer tonight on the Dove Gospel Music Awards show. And, just like that, the Religious Right has a new cause…
‘Bulo’s Top 10 Republican Targets for 2010-#3
29th Representative District-Pam Thornburg Or, instead of Pam's name, should it read 'No Incumbent'? Pam Thornburg is very unlikely to seek reelection. She almost lost (well, actually, the initial count…
Breaking: FDA to Permit ‘Morning-After’ Pill for 17 Year-olds
The FDA today said that it will not appeal a judge's order to permit 17-year-olds to get the 'morning-after' pill. From the Associated Press story: WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Food…
McClatchy Papers: Bush Pushed Torture to Find Iraq-Al Qaida Link
A link which, of course, never existed. In other words, Bush/Cheney et al were so intent on getting evidence to justify their misbegotten war in Iraq that they approved torture…