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Donald Trump's Mexican Birth Certificate
Some of you lovely people may have read my post the other day where I told a little story about Donald Trump.I didn't think it was a particularly important little story, although I now realize the fact...
View ArticleIn which Sarah gets shunted onto an Alaska Airlines flight to Anchorage with...
Those few of you who have been reading my little stories from the beginning would recall the time I spoke about a young Sarah Palin and her generosity with the chamomile tea at the Miss Alaska beauty...
View ArticleA meta post which contains a brief but cruel reference to both Ronald Reagan...
I breakfast quite late here at Shady Pines. My body clock is quite messed up from the Aripiprazole and Rivastigmine cocktail I’m supposed to take each morning with my first gimlet of the day and,...
View ArticleBy the incompetent at the expense of the stupid
As some of you may be aware, I recently posted my maiden post on Balloon Juice, in which I described my quick visit to see that nice Mr Cole and his lovely pets while I was on my way to New York on...
View ArticleWe're off to see the lizard
Hello, my dears.Great excitement and surprise at Shady Pines today, as I have finally received my invitation to the royal wedding next Friday.In order to be entirely accurate, I should say that...
View ArticleWhy does Peggy Noonan hate America?
I adore plane travel.I love the sheer improbability of nine hundred thousand pounds of steel, people and fuel flitting through the air like Nijinsky on a coke binge. I love the fact that there are...
View ArticleThe truth is out there
Goddammit. I post a righteous rant about the world thinking Americans are all insane and then half an hour later the entire United States goes stark raving birther-mad just to prove me correct.Anyway,...
View ArticleLive dispatches from the Royal Wedding
Note: What with Donald Trump behaving like David Duke and the many terrible tornado deaths, I feel a little guilty joking about anything.However, as some fine young women once sang "Some Days You Gotta...
View ArticleLaugh, clowns, at your broken loves
I don't often visit the New York Times website.There is far too much risk that I might accidentally be exposed to something written by David Brooks, at which point I would have to poke out my own eyes...
View ArticleHappy Christmas from Ron and Nancy
This is a dreadfully rude and unpleasant story, kiddies, for which I sincerely apologize.Sometimes real life is like that.It must have been Christmas 2003. Nancy had invited me to stay at the St Cloud...
View ArticleGoing Galt (Kitchen edition)
There are days, kiddies, when I tire of politics and the heady whirl, and the thought of suffering through another fifteen pages of Kathryn Jean Lopez whining about young girls wearing makeup is enough...
View ArticleThe Convent Fair and what happened to Mike Huckabee there
My dears, this story, being a religious story, is almost certainly not suitable for children - unless, of course, you have the sort of troublesome child who could stand, every now and then, to read a...
View ArticleThe Spokane Horror, Part 2 or, Whatever Happened to Huck and Ann?
Well, my dears. It has been a busy week and, although I promised you I would finish my little story about Pastor Huckabee and the Convent Fair last night, other circumstances intervened and I have only...
View ArticleWhy does Doogie Howser want to destroy the world?
Some of you may have noticed that I post a fair bit about the gays, particularly on Balloon Juice.Now, some people have asked, with some justification, “Sarah, as a proud, if fictional, Republican...
View ArticleGo back to where you came from
Over the last few days I have been privileged, by means of my various international connections, to have watched a reality TV show called “Go back to where you came from”, which has recently been...
View ArticleBailin' Palin (or Why Sarah Palin’s bus tour was cancelled)
Those of you who have been reading my little posts for a while will know that I do everything I can to avoid coming into direct contact with Sarah Palin ever since I was a judge on the Miss Alaska...
View ArticleThe Sad Long Life of David Brooks
Yesterday at Balloon Juice, I posted a link to David Brooks' most recent magnum vomitus in which he referenced an article by Dudley Clendinen called "The Good Short Life". Clendinen’s article is a...
View ArticleI am the 1%
We are the 99%.Well, you are anyway, for the most part. I, on the other hand, am stonkers with cash, positively rolling in it.My father was the second son of the Baron Capel of Tewkesbury, although...
View ArticleRandom morning bile
I don't have much to offer this morning, so I'm just going to stick this here.I'm loath to mention John Podhoretz's column at the Post. All the weak jokery, metaphor torturing and general brown-nosery...
View ArticleThe Ayn Rand Experience
Did I ever tell you, my dears, about the time that Ayn Rand lost her shirt to the mafia?I suspect not. Now, let me see.It was, I think, 1965. Times were hard for Ayn. Bitsy Trump had banned her from...
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