We’re All Muppets Here
By Will Durst Not easy being a Muppet. Referring to Greg Smith, formerly of Goldman Sachs, who wrote an op-ed in The New York Times about getting the … Read more
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Early Censorship Protest
In 1934 the MPAA voluntarily passed the Motion Picture Production Code, more generally known as the Hays Code, largely to avoid governmental regulation. The code prohibited certain plotlines and imagery from films and in publicity materials produ…
Local Woman Moves Out of Her Comfort Zone and Into a Condo
Local woman, Margaret McDillon, has been moved out of the house on Elm Street that she called home for 57 years and into a condo on Main Street.
“Oh, there are so many new things I’ll have to get used to,” said Maggie, a name she came to feel com…
Argus Hamilton Comments on the News & More
Hooters sponsors a National Hooky Day on Friday for fans who want to cut work and watch the NCAA tournament. Calls came flooding into the U.S. Capitol to … Read more
CEO Jokes (You know they deserve them)
Why did the CEO sell his grandmother? He wanted to get rid of her before depreciation lowered her value any more. Why did the CEO want to have … Read more
Romney: Too Naïve to Survive Missouri Caucus?
They’s lots more where these come from Willard
While Gov. Mitt Romney did everything he could to fit in with the locals in the Southern states of Alabama and Mississippi, he still ended up third at the polls behind Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich.
M…
Mark Tatulli and “Lio”
By Stanford Chandler Just as Lio, Mark Tatulli’s brilliant comic creation, faces up to monsters (real or imagined), the cartoonist confronts the economic mess into which newspapers have … Read more
On Porn and Prejudice
When I was growing up in Pleasantville in the mid ’60s the only place that a Caucasian female breast might be seen was in the Playboy magazine that … Read more
Jeb Bush Lying in Wait Like a Florida Panther
See Jeb? See Jeb Run? Run, Jeb, Run.
Rumors are still swirling that Jeb Bush is considering putting his name in the hat for the GOP nomination. But, if there is one thing you should know about the Bush family it is this, they don’t do anything with…
