McCain's Tire Gauge Gambit
Body: Despite voting against raises in the minimum wage and years of denying worker's rights to organize John McCain struck a chord with some employees of an Ohio company recently. Following Obama's...
View ArticleChange You Can Xerox!
Body: This post is too long for Corrente, but I thought you'd all enjoy some snark about Obama's totally unoriginal "surge" in Afghanistan.I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. Barack Obama is...
View ArticleWelcome to Libertarian Island: A Play in One Freedy-Free Act.
Body: Note: For those people who "know me" in the blogosphere, they know two things about me: 1) I write satirical one-act political plays, and/or 2) I wrote "[no-glossary]The 30[/no-glossary]%...
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An Obamamas Carol: A Play in One, Er, Heartwarming Act.
Body: THE SCENE: The White House, the President's bedroom. BARACK and MICHELLE OBAMA are sleeping in the ornate four-poster bed, snoring in tandem, wearing their traditional matching silk monogrammed...
View ArticleMessaging Madness, FireDogLake Edition
Body: I admit it, I signed Firedoglake's "kill the bill" petition, and due to that momentary burst of enthusiasm, I am now on the FDL mailing list.Today I received this gem in my Inbox:Hi MadamaB,You...
View ArticleThe SuperBowl Ad We Should Have Seen
Body: Well, folks, I watched the SuperBowl as planned, and the game was really good. (Geaux Saints!) The ads, however, were often not as enjoyable - in fact, they were so sexist that even my husband...
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MadamaB's Mailbox: It's Dead, Jim.
Body: Irony, that is. Just look what our Dear Leader done wroted to me in duh eeeeeemail!The subject is: "What You're Doing is Working."(pause for crying, laughing, pounding table and biting down on...
View ArticleLib-Be-Gone!
Body: (Explanatory note: After contemplating the fall of so many liberal icons, like Dennis Kucinich, who supported Health Whatever after pledging not to, or Carolyn Maloney, who wrote the amazing book...
View ArticleOperation ConservaFem: A Play in One Diabolical Act.
Body: (THE SCENE: A bland corporate building - it could be anywhere in any large city in America. We see, downstage right, a plain wooden door in a frame, adorned with a golden "P". Beyond it is a...
View ArticleIdeas for full employment
Body: We interrupt our regularly scheduled socio-economic cataclysm to bring you this stream of comic profanity.
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