Lost Journal: This Fan Club is What’s Happening
By Tim Mollen Journal entry: March 7, 1987 (age 17) Each generation struggles to define itself. As part of that struggle, it must elevate certain people into icons … Read more
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The Great Concessionaire
Sorry if you settled into your recliner ready to enjoy the blessed silence destined to descend on the political playing field in the aftermath of the Debt Ceiling … Read more
Obama Says He’ll Really Fight for the People … Next Time
By gollies, America’s workaday majority of middle-class and poor people have a fighter on our side in Washington. Unfortunately, that fighter is Barack Obama. On Sunday, he waved … Read more
Gibberish & Manure
The situation on Capitol Hill has become so confusing, we’re going to need a nuclear physicist with a googleplex of serially connected molecular microscopes to precisely explain what … Read more
America’s Shameful Leadership
OK, Barack Obama has not exactly turned out to be Mount Rushmore material, but — good God! — the petulant pettiness of right-wing Republican congressional leaders has turned … Read more
Back in the Fold
by Will Durst Give Congress the benefit of the doubt and say they do work out a compromise on the debt ceiling extension. This country could still slip … Read more
Argus Comments on the News: NBA Lockout and More
by Argus Hamilton San Diego State adopted an alcohol awareness program for Greek Row this fall to reduce drinking. It’s just in time. There’s a hot new drinking … Read more
Lost Journal: Forecast Calls for Better Showers (and Tubs)
By Tim Mollen Journal entry: March 22, 2007 (age 37) Dear People Who Engineer Bathtubs and Showers: I’ve been thinking about you a lot lately. Your invention of … Read more
Argus Hamilton Comments on the News: Rupert Murdoch and More
Rupert Murdoch was attacked by a man wielding a cream pie as he testified in Parliament Tuesday. The breach prompted security changes. The TSA still allows Muslims to … Read more
A Right-wing Jobs Program for America
by Jim Hightower Here’s the core economic problem we’re facing today: Unemployment and underemployment are rampant and entrenched throughout America, stifling any hope for real recovery and threatening … Read more
