Author Archives: Irregular Times

Encouraging news today in America’s War on Mythological Entities. Satan, arguably the most notorious of them all, has been located. According to Colonel Gary Brandl of the United States Marine Corps, “The enemy has a face. It is Satan’s. He …

On this day before Election Day 2004, I’d like to note a few things that a number of progressives were sure of over the past four years. Some progressives were sure that George W. Bush would plant weapons of mass …

So strange I thought at first it must be a hoax, I read today of the finding of the “little people” of Flores, an island in the Indonesian archipelago. Three feet tall with heads the size of grapefruit. My stars! …

This morning brings us exciting news from the outer Solar System. The Cassini space probe has made a close pass past the moon of Titan, which many scientists speculate could be a home for life of some kind. Soon, a …

From the Associated Press October 26: At the Pentagon, an official who monitors developments in Iraq said U.S.-led coalition troops had searched Al Qaqaa in the immediate aftermath of the March 2003 invasion and confirmed that the explosives were intact. …

For well over a year now, we’ve been focusing our efforts on helping progressives prepare for Election Day 2004. Well, it’s time now that we shift our vision just a little bit further into the future, into the post-election campaigns. …

The Washington Post has discovered, and government officials have now confirmed, that George W. Bush will be asking for another $70 Billion dollars to prosecute war in the Middle East, raising the cost of war since the invasion of Iraq …

Plutonium Page opened the pages of the Albuquerque Journal to find the following letter to the editor: Grand Old Principles Gone I Represented George Bush Sr. as a delegate to the Florida convention and I volunteered to go to Vietnam …

Does the Bush administration make you safer? Oh, really? 380 tons (that’s 760,000 pounds) of high explosives have been looted from the Iraqi site of Al Qaqaa (sounds like “Deep Shit”), which was supposed to be under U.S. military control …

We found it hard to believe at first, but this story comes from the reputable source of Editor and Publisher, which reports on issues impacting journalism. The Cleveland Plain Dealer, a newspaper that covers not only Cleveland a huge territory …

Put this story in the category of stuff you wish was fiction: In July, Bush’s Secretary of Tom Ridge insisted that he had been given credible evidence that Al Quaeda was planning “large-scale” attacks intended to “disrupt our democratic process” …

In the year 2000, there was a difference between the Republicans and the Democrats. The Republicans didn’t give a shit what others thought of them and their propriety. They just went out like gangbusters and fought and fought and fought …

The Republicans like to talk about values, so let’s play their game for just a second, and talk about a critical choice of values made this week by the Republican elites in control in Washington D.C.. George W. Bush and …

Having just found the limits of her partisanship, Mother Davis writes, We get a very high number of requests for links from people who have developed very fine and very original liberal web sites. We gladly provide links from Irregular …

While the 2000 Elections in Florida were marred by widespread voter fraud, we can rest assured that they’ve fixed everything in Florida! No voter fraud there! We’re going to have a fair election, with nobody’s vote surpressed or… um… St …

We received the following new Bush haiku from Karl Simanonok this morning: Reckless President Alcoholic President Into the Abyss Ah, a descending spiral of doomed serenity…

In the year 2000, enough votes were miscounted to swing the election to George W. Bush. In the 2004 election, praises be, we don’t have to worry about that sort of thing. Thanks be to Jesus for the technological wizardry …