The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

Episode 27 of my podcast ( I Feel Snitty ), entitled, "Weapons of Mass Distraction," is now available! Here's a brief description of the show: George W. Bush was famous (or perhaps infamous) for his seemingly constant usage of the term "WMDs," or Weapons of Mass Destruction. Well, Donald Trump has decided to take on a new form of WMDs, in Weapons of Mass Distraction, especially of late, as he's attempted to divert attention away from his Ukraine scandal by showing the public, the media in particular, a host of shiny new objects. In this episode, I break down Trump's latest distraction; play the game everyone's been talking about, "How Much Sh*t Could We Get Away With If We Weren't President Trump?;" and report the results of my poll of the week, which asked the question, "What will Donald Trump be doing while watching, but pretending not to watch the Democratic debate?" You can check out the episode in its entirety here:...

I read an article this morning which made me wonder if we were celebrating April Fool's Day and not Labor Day today in this country. The article came by way of conservative political commentator Nile Gardiner of The Telegraph , and was titled, "Barack Obama is proving an embarrassing amateur on the world stage compared to George W. Bush." In the article, Gardiner wrote the following: "George W. Bush was widely mocked by the Left during the Iraq War, with liberals jeering at the 'coalition of the willing,' which included in its ranks some minnows such as Moldova and Kazkhstan. ... But the coalition also contained, as I pointed out in Congressional testimony back in 2007, Great Britain, Australia, Spain, Italy, Poland, and 16 members of the NATO alliance, as well as Japan and South Korea. In Europe, France and Germany were the only large-scale countries that sat the war out, with 12 of the 25 members of the European Union represented. The coalition, swelled...

Wanna know of a sure-fire way to get everybody at a party drunk? Play a game I like to call "Getting Foxed with Benghazi." Here's how you play. First, you grab a bunch of shot glasses, bottles of liquor, and pass them around. Next, turn on the Fox News channel. Lastly, whenever someone on Fox News utters the word "Benghazi," you take a shot. This will guarantee that everyone is drunk and passed out within 15 minutes. You're welcome. In all seriousness, however, talk of Benghazi has been floating about Congress and the airwaves at a greater clip than Gerard Butler, Katherine Heigl, and Nicolas Cage star in bad movies. Congressional Republicans and conservative talking heads have compared Benghazi to Watergate and Iran-Contra more than I've been compared to Tom Hanks by drunks. As a result, the right and left are pointing fingers more than Hugh Hefner's gotten laid. The right's general talking point is that four Americans died in the attacks an...

Public Policy Polling just released poll results regarding conspiracy theories. For the most part, it appears as if a very small minority of people believe most such theories. However, there were some rather surprising results. First off, 33% of Republicans still believe that Saddam Hussein was involved in the 9/11 attacks, while 41% don't believe this, and 28% aren't sure. For the record, while Hussein was never going to win Best Man of the Year honors at any point in his life, he wasn't involved in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. A fifth (20%) of Republicans also believe that President Barack Obama is the Anti-Christ and another 17% aren't sure. Democrats, meanwhile, strongly believe that then President George W. Bush misled this country on Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction, as 72% of Democrats think this, while only 14% do not, and another 15% aren't sure. The numbers are the direct opposite for Republicans - only 13% of whom believe Bush misled th...

I got into a funny discussion with a friend a while back. She mentioned that she and her ex couldn't talk about anything. This was especially the case when anything involving politics or religion came up. He'd always shoot back with a, "No, you're wrong," "You're being so ridiculous," "You're being irrational" or "I read a book about that once, so come back to me at another time when you've done your homework like I have." Allright, so the guy knows everything, right? He thinks so, anyway. But, after a long discussion with my friend, he seems very confused. Maybe the young lad doesn't know as much as he believes. Wouldn't that be something? My friend, we'll call her Lacey, does not like guns. She believes in gun laws. Heck, she'd feel a heck of a lot safer if there were no guns, period! Her ex, Gus we'll call him, doesn't believe in gun laws and claimed that Lacey was really liberal, because o...