Beans and Hot Dogs

OMT buddy-boy Tony Norman writes in his Post-Gazette column today about Velma Hart, who made news this week by giving President Obama something of a tongue-lashing at a CNBC-sponsored “Town Hall Discussion on Jobs”. And while we try to avoid tackling the same topics on the same day as our pals like Tony do in [...]

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The Loyal Opposition

If you’re a night sky watcher, tonight two of the outer planets will be putting on a spectacular show. And admission is free. In case you haven’t noticed, that extraordinarily bright star rising in the east just after the sun sets is none other than Jupiter. It’s about as bright as it ever gets from [...]

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Newt Gingrich: Man or Pig?

By now, everyone’s had a chance to absorb and digest Newt Gingrich’s latest racist, anti-intellectual attack on President Obama, in which he regurgitates the fantastic ravings of Dinesh D’Souza, whose recent piece in Forbes gives new meaning to the phrase “seriously fucked up”. Newt has outraged pretty much everyone whose soul isn’t as putrid and [...]

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For Further Reading

Here at OMT, as our regular readers know, our buddy-boy Mark Morford, of the San Francisco Chronicle, is one of our heroes. In his weekly column, Notes & Errata, Morford uses a snarky, take-no-prisoners approach to hammer mercilessly our friends over on that other, demented side of the political spectrum. Morford has a style and [...]

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On The Other Hand …

In our previous piece in which we discussed the nomination of “Tea Party” moronette Christine O’Donnell as the Republican candidate for the Seanate, we said, “Before the election, Delaware Republican officials said that should she win, she shouldn’t expect any funding from them in the general election. She’s widely expected to get her ass handed [...]

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Tea and Sympathy

“Tea Party Surges” … “Big Night for Tea Party” … “Tea Party Upends Republican Establishment”. So blare the headlines this morning in the wake of primary victories by Christine O’Donnell, a virtually unknown marketing consultant, who upset veteran Republican Congressman Mike Castle for the Republican nomination for Joe Biden’s old Senate seat in Delaware, and [...]

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Where The Blame Really Lies

At first it seemed as if Pastor Terry Jones had backed down from his plans to burn copies of the Qur’an tomorrow, the 9th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. But then again, he hadn’t. Saying that he was “lied to” by Imam Muhammad Musri of the Islamic Society of Central Florida, Jones says now that [...]

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Sarah, Ricky, and The Gathering Storm

If you read our post the other day, you’ll recall that we challenged Sarah Palin to step up and denounce the moronic Florida preacher who plans on burning copies of the Qur’an on Saturday in “honor” of the 9th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Sarah has stepped up and met that challenge in a posting [...]

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OMT Milestone

Here at OMT, we like to pause and recognize our various milestones as we encounter them. This, no doubt, has much to do with the inordinate amount of time that we spend on bike trails, many of which are demarcated by small stone or wooden pillars emblazoned with mileage numbers that allow us not only [...]

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Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition

Former members of Monty Python have been taking it on the chin from America’s right wing lately, and not in ways you might expect. For example, it would probably come as no surprise to anyone if the right were to attack Python for their 35-year-old film, Life of Brian, which openly mocked Christianity. But no, [...]

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