The Sunshine Empire

Arguably the funniest woman in the business. Kathleen Madigan

When Texas Republicans set the only early polling place in the district miles away from the campus of Prairie View A&M, they decided to make sure that they voted one way or another.

One of my favorite moments in the debate last night was when Hillary invoked the specter that during a television interview, one of Barack Obama’s supporters was asked to name an accomplishment of the Senator’s and he could not name even one. The interview in question was when Chris Matthews excoriated a State Senator from [...]

“A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.” -Theodore Roosevelt 

I love it when wing-nuts get all upset if someone says something less than favorable about America.  They have a view of America that a child has for it’s mother.  Mommy can do no wrong and anyone that says something about mommy is evil.  Nevermind if it’s true.  I have been amused how much of [...]

I was reading an article from Politico.com discussing how petulant Conservatives who where bitching and moaning and complaining are suddenly all pro-McCain now that the New York Times has taken a swipe at him.  The enemy of my enemy is my friend I guess.  But I found one line really amusing. “The New York Times [...]

Due to the high number of times that we receive search results for a question asking how many times the word “dude” is used in the movie The Big Lebowski, we provide the following information from www.imdb.com. The word “dude” is used around 161 times in the movie. 160 spoken and once in text in [...]

Today’s news and political gossip brings us word that John McCain allegedly had an affair with a lobbyist in the run up to the 2000 Presidential election. Now I feel that the sexual part of this story is not news, nor should it be. I would want to look up and see how he voted [...]

Supporters of the Iraq invasion and debacle like Presidential contender John McCain often trumpet that, “the surge is working.” Of course we have pointed out that that Daddy will stop hitting Mommy when the police are out on the porch, but violence is down. This result is always attributed to David Petraeus and George W. [...]