REVISITED: ETHAN COUCH – MORE EXCUSES FOR REALLY BAD BEHAVIOR

Two years ago, I published the article below about Ethan Couch who, while driving with a blood alcohol content of .24, killed four innocent people and severely injured two others. As a result, the judge, who has since retired, Judge Jean Boyd – I hope you’re happy Judge Boyd — bought into the bogus defense […]
AND THE WORST PARENT AWARD GOES TO….

When I read articles or online posts about people doing a horrible job raising their children, I can’t help but think we’re really circling the drain. This great country is being overrun with uninformed, misinformed, stupid people who are breeding at an alarming rate. Worse yet, many of them have no problem displaying their inadequacies […]
SANFORD AND WEINER – I KNEW THEY’D BE BACK

When both of these guys left public office a few years back, like cockroaches who’ll survive nuclear war, I knew we hadn’t seen the last of them. I was right. Former Republican Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina was just elected by a landslide to his old House of Representatives seat and Democrat Anthony Weiner, […]
SHAME – A THING OF THE PAST

Bioethicist Daniel Callahan, in a recent editorial published in the Hastings Center Report, suggests that fat people should be shamed into losing weight. His strategy involves “social pressure combined with vigorous government action.” There are lots of reasons why people are fat. I’m not about to sit in judgment of why someone is fat because […]
I Was Right – Tonya Dixon-Neely Gets To Keep Her Job

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote an article entitled, “Why Does Tonya Dixon-Neely Have a Job?” This is the teacher who berated her student who mentioned that President Obama admitted bullying someone when he went to school. The teacher wouldn’t have any such discussion. In that article, I wrote that she probably won’t lose […]
CHILDREN OF THE CORN – 2012
By now, you’ve probably seen or heard about Karen Klein, the school bus monitor, who was verbally attacked by a pack of feral teenagers. This story reminds me of a Stephen King story about mutant kids who believe anyone over 18 should die. Growing up, if I or anyone in my school had done something […]
Rielle Hunter’s New Book: “What Really Happened” Does Anyone Really Care?

Rielle Hunter, the “mistress” (news reports’ name for her, not mine) of John Edwards once described herself to Oprah as a “private person.” She probably doesn’t know what the word “shame” means and I guess she’s not all that “private” anymore – she’s crawled out of the woodwork to talk about her sordid life in […]
Woody Allen: Father and Brother-in-Law

Anyone who knows me knows that I won’t buy a book, see a movie, or purchase a DVD if it’s written by or stars some idiot actor who spouts off about this country, glorifies tyrants or abuses children. (Believe me, that leaves relatively few choices but that’s okay.) Case in point: Woody Allen. After he […]
HAPPY FATHER’S DAY, DESMOND HATCHETT

Well, if you don’t know who this upstanding citizen is, let me introduce you. This is 33-year old Desmond Hatchett, who has the distinction in the state of Tennessee of fathering 30 children with eleven different women. In my day, there was an expression that it was easy to be a father, but hard to […]