By BRUCE LOWITT Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ammo, who recently discovered that her parents mixed gunpowder into her Pablum when she was an infant, has introduced legislation to, as she put it, “update the Second Amendment.” In fact, she is proposing a 28th Amendment to replace the Second Amendment and has submitted a brief toContinue reading “Marjorie Taylor Greene’s plan: A very unregulated militia”
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LIV long … and prosper?
By BRUCE LOWITT Now that the LIV Golf Tour has gotten off to a widely ignored start, the Saudi government bankrolling it has bought the similarly ignored United States Football League and nearly a dozen other sports that no fans in their right mind should care about. It’s called sportswashing, using sports to deflect attentionContinue reading “LIV long … and prosper?”
Biden decides being Vice is nicer
By BRUCE LOWITT In a stunning announcement, President Joe Biden said he will not run for reelection in 2024 but has decided instead to run once again for vice president, the office he held for eight years under Barack Obama. “When I ran for president in 2020, I did so to restore the soul ofContinue reading “Biden decides being Vice is nicer”
Tucker Carlson: “I would like you to do me a favor …”
By BRUCE LOWITT Tucker Carlson apparently has asked favors of Vladimir Putin, Anthony Fauci and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez among others as well as Hunter Biden, according to e-mails reportedly recovered from Carlson’s computer at FOX News. The alleged e-mails revealed that most of the requests by the host of Tucker Carlson Tonight, FOX’s prime-time cauldron ofContinue reading “Tucker Carlson: “I would like you to do me a favor …””
Mickelson: from Lefty to left out
By BRUCE LOWITT Phil Mickelson, the defending (but not actually defending) champion of the PGA Championship, sneaked onto the Southern Hills Country Club for the first round Thursday before being arrested by Tulsa, Okla., police and charged with trespassing. Mickelson is an outcast on the PGA Tour since accusing it of “obnoxious greed” and callingContinue reading “Mickelson: from Lefty to left out”
DeSantis: Freedom matters, yes or no
By BRUCE LOWITT Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, ramping up his still-unannounced 2024 presidential campaign, claimed Tuesday: “What matters most to me is freedom. I’m for it or against it, depending on what it is.” When asked for examples, the self-proclaimed narcissistic Republican bully explained, “I’m for everyone’s freedom to carry a firearm in my state,Continue reading “DeSantis: Freedom matters, yes or no”
SCOTUS: We’ve only just begun
By BRUCE LOWITT In addition to its recently revealed initial draft majority opinion striking down Roe v. Wade, the United States Supreme Court appears to be planning to overturn numerous other long-standing opinions on race, sex and privacy as well as anything else it doesn’t like. “When I wrote that ‘It is time to heedContinue reading “SCOTUS: We’ve only just begun”
Tom Brady: yes, no, maybe …
By BRUCE LOWITT Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady, who said Feb. 1 that he was finished playing but changed his mind on March 13, has now retired and unretired more than half a dozen times in one day. “I know I’m probably driving Jason (Licht, the Bucs’ general manager) nuts,” Brady said Monday night,Continue reading “Tom Brady: yes, no, maybe …”
Thank You and also F#%k You
Thank you for calling the United States Government. Your call is important to us. Well, okay, not really. But we have to say that although, frankly, we couldn’t care less about what you think unless you are willing to share your thoughts along with a few thousand dollars. Your call may be monitored and/or recordedContinue reading “Thank You and also F#%k You”
Tiger swears he was lucky to win his sixth Masters
Tiger Woods, in the most remarkable and highly questionable comeback ever in professional golf, won his sixth career Masters Tournament, tying Jack Nicklaus’ record, as one challenger after another disappeared off the leaderboard. Woods, who survived a Feb. 23, 2021, one-car crash near Los Angeles, said he was “thankful that I was able to withstandContinue reading “Tiger swears he was lucky to win his sixth Masters”