Author: TrogloPundit

Alternate title: Let the FavreWatch Begin! Countdown to kickoff: about ninety minutes. Or so. Brett Favre continues his mission to prevent Peyton Manning from ever overtaking any career NFL records in the New Orleans Superdome, where his Minnesota Viqueens are quite likely to start off the new season on a bad note. Note to the […]

On a scale of forgetting your pencil at home to forgetting your 50th wedding anniversary, this ranks somewhere around forgetting your lunchbox. But it’s still funny. Last week, a Washington Post columnist started a Twitter hoax. This week, a Washington Post columnist fell for one. Jonathan Capehart, an editorial writer and columnist, took “@RepJackKimble (R-Calif.)” […]

Thank God for the Nazis, says New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, for saving FDR from his own timid, cowardly, tight-fisted economic policies! The president in question is Franklin Delano Roosevelt; the year is 1938. Within a few years, of course, the Great Depression was over. But it’s both instructive and discouraging to look at […]

Alternate title: And the award for most hilarious example of irony in a major American city goes to…Detroit! Although, as usual, the irony in this story is open to interpretation: Following the embarrassing news that Mayor Dave Bing’s GMC Yukon was hijacked by criminals this week, Detroit’s Channel 7 reports that the Reverend (Jesse Jackson)’s […]

We’re doomed! Mass extinctions have served as huge reset buttons that dramatically changed the diversity of species found in oceans all over the world, according to a comprehensive study of fossil records. Get ready, now. Here comes the bold prediction: The findings suggest humans will live in a very different future if they drive animals […]

…this story: KABUL, Afghanistan — U.S. and Afghan troops repelled attackers wearing American uniforms and suicide vests in a pair of simultaneous assaults before dawn Saturday on NATO bases near the Pakistani border, including one where seven CIA employees died in a suicide attack last year. If you’re keeping score at home, yes: donning the […]

Maybe I’m just being sensitive today, but this headline: EPA Surrenders to NRA on Gun Control Issue The noble but tragic EPA, finally succumbing to the overwhelming dark and brutal strength of the NRA, those jerks. I dunno. Maybe I am being too sensitive. Anyway, it’s good news: In a swift and unexpected decision, the […]

Via Jiblog, who asks: Plants Scream – What will vegans do now?! The lovely scent of cut grass is the reek of plant anguish: When attacked, plants release airborne chemical compounds. Now scientists say plants can use these compounds almost like language, notifying nearby creatures who can “rescue” them from insect attacks. How does that […]

Here’s a shocking story: black students barred from running for class president at a Mississippi middle school. My first thought – like yours, I’ll bet – was: you have got to be kidding me. But no. That was the policy, and it was so ingrained into their “that’s just how we do it” that it […]

No more free smokes, all you old fogies. HAVANA (Reuters) — Cuba is phasing out its longstanding monthly allotments of subsidized cigarettes as President Raul Castro works to jump-start the island’s sputtering economy. Beginning next month, some 2.5 million Cubans over the age of 54 no longer will get their four packs of cigarettes as […]

Here’s your situation, contestants. You get to decide: Ironic? Or Not? Bruckner Chase staggered ashore at San Carlos Beach in Monterey on Tuesday evening after a 14-hour swim to raise awareness about the fragile nature of the local marine environment. Ironically, some of the creatures native to that environment made Chase pay dearly for his […]

What if we quit playing at redistribution, and actually redistribute? Take all the wealth in America, and divvy it up. Everybody gets the same, as close as we can make it. Imagine! No more rich and poor; no more “haves” and “have-nots.” No more Two Americas. No more half the nation struggling to make ends […]

Imagine a chess player, moving his rook into danger for no apparent reason, except for the real possibility of advantage seven moves down the line that only he can see. Or a general, calling a retreat from a long-defended and beloved city. Neither the troops, nor the people, nor the general’s bosses will be happy, […]

Great Britain – the people who brought us hooliganism – are hosting the 2012 Summer Olympics. I’m sure they’ll do a fine job, or at least as fine a job as any other nation does. Part of that job is: dealing with such a wide variety of cultures. So: Britain’s national tourism agency issued guidelines […]

No, not the Cordova Initiative and the Ground Zero Mosque, although the title might still apply. No, I’m talking about this: ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Protesters have been rallying outside Target Corp. or its stores almost daily since the retailer angered gay rights supporters and progressives by giving money to help a conservative Republican […]

But first: Into the laundromat stroll a youngish couple, he a whiskered slab of man with pectoral muscles like sides of beef, she all legs and shorts and hoodie. They proceed to load up a washer with NOTHING and watch it run, and at the end of its cycle move the NOTHING into a dryer […]

Warner Todd Huston had the story yesterday: A blogger is in trouble with local Ohio officials who are trying to Shut him down using a badly applied campaign finance law all because he has been critical of county officials on his blog. That’s right, a county board is trying to silence the free political speech […]

Forgive me for dredging this story up again — I was on vacation when it broke, so it’s been simmering. A recap: John Kerry was mooring his boat in Rhode Island, instead of his home state of Massachusetts. The reason: taxes. If he’d moored in Massachusetts, he’d have been hit with $437,000 in sales taxes, […]

That’s “unexpected” in the Instapundit sense. The story: Democrats happy to let taxes rise. The Obama administration will allow tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans to expire on schedule, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Thursday, setting up a clash with Republicans and a small but vocal group of Democrats who want to delay the looming […]

…let’s make sure we don’t get cocky about 2012, either. No less of a genius than Charles Krauthammer sounded that particular alarm earlier this week, and now Moe Lane writes: The NAACP has a goal; minimizing the Democratic Party’s losses in 201[0*] (via the use of a smear campaign). Vice President Biden also has a […]

I’ll be the first to admit: I know very, very little about Gaza. But I know that I know very, very little about Gaza because of this story: A nice new shopping mall opened today in Gaza: Will the media report on it? It’s a long post with a lot of info by a guy […]

As if there wasn’t enough diversity between New Delhi and New Jersey already: A new Vaseline ad campaign in India urging men to whiten their faces has sparked international controversy, with critics of the ads contending that Vaseline – a subsidiary of the Dutch-Anglo conglomerate Unilever – is promoting the notion that only white skin […]

Wanna make your own automotivators? It’s easy! Just start with a picture: And then take it to this website. Follow the instructions, and viola! So easy, even a Photoshop Goddess can do it: Or a Paco: Or a more-or-less-non-blogging Alaskan: Or even a guy named Fred: Leave links to your own in the comments, or […]

Headline: Deficit hits $1 trillion in June for second year Oh, sure, start out with the bad news. Skip to the second paragraph: The deficit was $1.005 trillion at the end of June for fiscal year 2010, which is $81 billion less than it was after nine months of fiscal 2009, according to a Congressional […]

At the very least, he was the only president in history to leave the office with poll numbers as good as they were when he entered the office. The story: In Poland, 3 presidents in 1 day Poland’s constitution has created an unusual situation in the transition to a new head of state following the […]

Which is just fine with me. It’s not like she’s got a choice, anyway. The story: Healthcare: Democrats up ante Speaker Nancy Pelosi is doubling down on healthcare reform, betting that it will do Democrats more good than harm in November’s elections. She and her leadership team have seized on new polls that suggest healthcare […]

…and I’m probably not going to. What for, really? Just for fun, let’s see if I can guess, word for word, what the editorial says: See, the Constitution is the law of the land. Right? Right? Isn’t that what all those damn teabaggers are always bitching about? A return to “Constitutional principles?” Well, fine. Does […]

Back in May, the Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) board “directed the college to boycott Arizona because of that state’s new immigration control law.” MATC board members are unelected, but have taxing authority over several southeastern Wisconsin counties including Ozaukee, where, at a Board of Supervisors meeting this morning: Port Washington – A slim majority […]