We’ve completed our latest S&R election reader poll, and here are the results. Q: Which candidate do you currently favor for the Republican nomination?  Ron Paul (93) John McCain (16) Other (15) Mike Huckabee (6) Rudy Giuliani (5) Fred Thompson (3) Tom Tancredo (3) Mitt Romney (2) Duncan Hunter (0) Up now in the column to your right – we’d
Read moreHey, what’s that in our stocking? It’s Ron Paul! Oh joy – we got The Truth® for Christmas! Ahem. So those of you who thought Ron Paul was going to go away once the big boys got serious have probably been surprised by his staying power so far. He’s polling in the high single digits (something Ronald Reagan Fred Thompson
Read moreHo Ho Humbug, boys and girls, and welcome back for that most specialist SVR of the year. If you’ve got Jack Retailer nipping at your wallet, brew yourself up a toddy and settle back as SRTV presents our inaugural War on the Holidays Spectacular!© Up first, Weird Al shows us that the apocalypse doesn’t have to be a downer!
Read moreNot long ago I was bitching about how utterly banal I think a lot of contemporary poetry is. Shortly thereafter I got a note from scrogue JS O’Brien saying he thought I might appreciate a poet he knew a little about, Brigit Pegeen Kelly. So I hit my Internets and tracked her down. The first poem of hers that I
Read moreThere’s a funny parenting story in the news. And there’s another funny parenting story that isn’t in the news. Unfortunately, the one that isn’t needs to be. The “in the news” story involves Britney’s little sister, Jamie Lynn. You may have heard that the 16 year-old TV star is pregnant. By a nice boy she met at church. And of
Read moreWe’ve just wrapped our first S&R election reader poll, and here are the results. Q: Which candidate do you currently favor for the Democratic nomination? John Edwards (47) Dennis Kucinich (45) Barack Obama (36) Hillary Clinton (9) Christopher Dodd (6) Bill Richardson (2) Joe Biden (4) Other (3) Up now in the column to your right – same question, GOP
Read moreBill Strauss, who co-authored a number of important books on generational dynamics, is dead at 60. This is a great loss. Strauss and his colleague Neil Howe were responsible for some of the most insightful and important analyses ever done into American generations. Thanks to them we now have a heightened ability to understand the cyclical nature of generations, affording
Read moreThe following is a dramatization, brought to you by the Mighty Scholar All-Star Rogue Players. Any resemblance to actual persons or events is purely coincidental. The scene: a kitchen. Man reading paper. Wife preparing breakfast. Narrator: What to do, what to do? Imagine that you’re a former executive with one of the nation’s largest coal producers and that the company
Read moreRecent elections have been a mess here in Colorado, and today the Secretary of State brought the hammer down. Voting Machines For Major Counties Decertified – Machines Have Problems With Security, Accuracy, Secretary Of State Says DENVER — Colorado’s top election official decertified electronic voting machines used in some of the state’s largest counties on Monday, including Denver, Arapahoe and
Read moreAs Martin noted earlier, Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-CT) is filibustering ill-conceived legislation that would give telecommunications companies a pass for engaging in illegal spying activities on behalf of the Bush administration. Those of you who were hopeful in the wake of last year’s sweep of both houses of Congress by the alleged opposition party, and those who are hopeful that
Read moreOur good friend Mike Smith, who has afflicted this space before says: “I swear I didn’t hunt for these.” He’s blaming them on a co-worker named “Fryda.” I don’t know this Fryda, but I know Mike, and I’m skeptical. Anyway, in this first bit, somebody needs to spend some time in training classes at PetSmart. And I’m not talking about
Read moreItaly is a marvelous culture – truly, one of the remarkable places on Earth. But it’s also a nation with deep problems. America isn’t the only place that has to turn to comedians to hear the truth: meet Beppe Grillo. Thx to Dr. Frank Venturo for passing this on.
Read moreThx to Jim Gwyn for passing this on.
Read moreToday’s question is for GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee. S&R: Rev. Huckabee, you’ve spoken at great length about the importance of faith in your political life. If elected, what would you do in a hypothetical situation if you felt that your Christian faith were in conflict with the Constitution?
Read moreOkay, somewhere Baby Jesus is crying. I have all kinds of questions, but the big one is this: all the evangelical megachurch choirs in America, and they couldn’t find but one non-tonedeaf person to be in this video? Baby Jesus is crying because the Republicans are hurting his ears. How about for 2009 we focus on 12 days of choir
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