Posts by El Somnambulo

MSNBC is reporting that Defense Secretary Robert Gates has decided to lift the ban on coverage of coffins returning to Dover AFB.  The report further states that individual families will…

Some things El Somnambulo can't make up. Rush Limbaugh, confronted with polling showing an exceedingly large gender gap in his radio audience , is convening a summit to find out…

CNN reports that two corrupt Luzerne County judges received $2.6 million in kickbacks for sending kids with minor offenses to privately-run boot camps. One of the two judges shut down…

Would-be President Bobby Jindal has rejected $100 million in Federal unemployment assistance to Louisiana. Using classic Rethug logic, he argues that accepting the aid now could lead to an increased…

Bill and Socks shared many things together. One was their affinity for music. Socks was aware that he would soon head to that Litter Box in the Sky. Accordingly, he…

A Clinton-era figure accused by Republicans of pleasuring himself in public in the White House has died. Historians remember that Rethugs took the fact that the individual at the center of…

Cutting through the BS, El Somnambulo has detected the common thread in the 'fiscal conservatives' agita about receiving stimulus aid. It's not that they don't want the money. It's that they…

The days of stonewalling prosecutors and getting away with it may well be coming to an end. And, there's been plenty of stonewalling going on. According to the indispensable  Talking…

While 'schadenfreude' basically means taking delight in the misery of others, El Somnambulo, who is nothing if not sympathetic, feels horrible and powerless for what has happened to so many…