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Mark Drolette: Hey, Cut Scooter Some Slack
Tuesday, 14 March 2006, 10:49 am | Mark Drolette
It seems that I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, former chief of staff to Vile, check it, Vice President Dick Cheney, has a lot on his mind, or at least did in the summer of 2003. Libby was so busy then, in fact, that he really can’t be blamed if he let ... More >>
Yo Troops! Hey Vets! We Got Yer Support Right Here
Tuesday, 7 March 2006, 11:29 am | Mark Drolette
My sister Apolitica called me yesterday. “Dolton’s really upset,” she said of her spouse. More >>
Well, I Was Wondering Whose Government It Was
Monday, 27 February 2006, 10:26 am | Mark Drolette
While trying to defend the selling off of yet another piece of what little remains of America -- the port operations deal with the United Arab Emirates -- George W. said: More >>
Mark Drolette: Living the American Ream
Wednesday, 22 February 2006, 10:24 am | Mark Drolette
Whoa! I can’t believe my luck. This came out just in time. Now I have my defense for the bank robbery rap I face in court next week: I’ll tell the judge that when I thrust that gun into the teller’s face and handed her the note, I wasn’t making ... More >>
Mark Drolette: Beware Osama bin Saddam Hugo Chavez
Tuesday, 7 February 2006, 2:43 pm | Mark Drolette
I read a headline the other day that was enough to make me spit out my early-morning coffee. Or would’ve been, certainly, had I read it in the early morning and been drinking coffee. I actually read it in the afternoon and wasn’t drinking anything ... More >>
Yes, We’re A Peaceful Nation -- And Chimps Fly
Friday, 9 December 2005, 4:04 pm | Mark Drolette
Yes, We’re A Peaceful Nation -- And Chimps Fly (Carrier Landings Excepted) By Mark Drolette More >>
Cow Bombs In Costa Rica: Only A Matter Of Time?
Wednesday, 30 November 2005, 1:16 pm | Mark Drolette
Returning to America after a recent trip to Costa Rica, I could practically smell the fear in the Phoenix airport. Welcome to the Terrified States of America, folks. Kindly remove almost every item of clothing and check all common sense at the gate. More >>
Kissing Squids Feeding Squirrels & Getting Squewed
Wednesday, 2 November 2005, 11:44 am | Mark Drolette
“The Squid Hickeys.” Great name for a band, huh? I found out about them from a reader named Steve (who, to preserve his anonymity, shall henceforth be called: “Steve”). He suggested I might want to get out more after perusing a recent column in which ... More >>
The Law? Bushies Fart In Its General Direction
Thursday, 20 October 2005, 11:21 am | Mark Drolette
For years, I searched for my purpose in life. For a while, I thought maybe it was to help spike the country’s marriage mean average, with three mean marriages (hey, it takes two, or, in this case, four total) to my, uh, credit. However, I think I’ve ... More >>
Funny, It Really Isn’t; Fascism, It Really Is
Wednesday, 12 October 2005, 12:10 am | Mark Drolette
It’s been a long time since I’ve burst out laughing at anything George W. Bush has said, even though practically everything he says is laughable. Since yucks are few and far between these days, though, I tend to grab ‘em no matter the souse, er, source. More >>
So The Country’s Screwed. What’re Ya Gonna Do?
Friday, 7 October 2005, 2:57 pm | Mark Drolette
Well, here I am, presenting my periodic Pearcy piece (plus a pinch of personal pathos). What’s a Pearcy, you ponder? Actually, there are two of them, Steve and Virginia, friends of mine who have stirred things up a bit here in Sacramento a few times in ... More >>
Mark Drolette: Hate America? You Bet - This One
Wednesday, 21 September 2005, 4:17 pm | Mark Drolette
“I have seen the face of God!” No, this is not George W. Bush’s daily affirmation upon looking in the mirror each morning after coming to/transmogrifying/getting up (though it could be, I guess), but rather the rapturous exclamation from Howard Beale ... More >>
Mark Drolette: Dear Fellow Citizens of the World
Monday, 12 September 2005, 10:15 pm | Mark Drolette
Save yourselves. America, my native country, a place I no longer recognize, is now an irredeemably wretched land shot through with lunacy and idiocy, a rogue nation on the prowl controlled by murderous madmen enthusiastically supported by tens of ... More >>
While Bodies Rot, Bush Couldn’t Care Less
Monday, 5 September 2005, 1:00 pm | Mark Drolette
As the unmitigated horror in New Orleans and environs unfolds and the type of immediate, massive government assistance that was needed from the earliest moments of Katrina’s landfall Monday scandalously and unforgivably fails to materialize, it is impossible ... More >>
Drolette: “Like” Living In A Third World Country?
Monday, 5 September 2005, 12:52 am | Mark Drolette
As he begrudgingly performed the photo-op hop during his “2005 I Care About Americans Devastated By Katrina, I Really Do Tour,” George W. Bush predictably did the only thing he does well: utter utterly worthless words. While he inexplicably spared us ... More >>
Mark Drolette: But What About The Fish?
Wednesday, 31 August 2005, 10:46 am | Mark Drolette
Call me crazy (or slow, or slowly going crazy; smart money's on #3), but I'm beginning to think this Cindy Sheehan/antiwar movement second wind thing just might have some legs. More >>
Mark Drolette: Withdrawing From A Dope Is A Bitch
Thursday, 25 August 2005, 3:53 pm | Mark Drolette
When I was divorcing my first wife, it was painful to realize I’d made major mistakes during the marriage. When I was divorcing my second wife, it was painful to realize I’d made major mistakes during the marriage. As I am divorcing my third wife, it’s ... More >>
Mark Drolette: Real Americans Are Really Something
Tuesday, 23 August 2005, 11:58 am | Mark Drolette
From Tom Baldwin of Times Online in his August 12, 2005, story on Cindy Sheehan: “In the local [Texas] paper, the McGregor Mirror, there is an open letter to ‘the woman complaining about her son’s death in Iraq’ from Ann Lehman, a Crawford resident. More >>
Mark Drolette: Nukes And Dolts And Us! Oh, Why?
Wednesday, 3 August 2005, 4:40 pm | Mark Drolette
I should know better than to talk politics with my Republican brother-in-law, Dolton. But since he’s married to my sister, it’s hard to avoid sometimes, like the other morning when I was helping them move into their new apartment. More >>
Getting Americans To Spend Minutes On The Minutes
Thursday, 28 July 2005, 11:51 am | Mark Drolette
I was heartened by the reaction a group of about fifty of us received the other day when, prior to attending a Downing Street Minutes (DSM) House Party, we all stood at a busy Sacramento intersection for an hour or so displaying signs and banners ... More >>
