Friday, December 11, 2015

The GOP/Tea Party are about to commit political suicide

By Jack Brummet, GOP/Tea Party Ed.



I saw Sen. Graham today, demanding that Donald Trump exit the GOP/TP.  I don't know how many other leaders agree, but this would be political suicide.  If Trump mounts a 3rd party challenge, it guarantees a Hillary Clinton win next November.   Good luck with this, Republicans.  Talk about being stuck between a rock and a hard plac

Tuesday, December 08, 2015

Nude Russians playing horseback? Giddyup!

By Jack Brummet



The provenance of this photo is unknown, but it is probably from Russia (photo was posted by Kerim Ragimov. a Facebook friend, and Tin Eye found the image on several Russian websites).
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Sunday, December 06, 2015

Girls with guns: The Drexel Institute Girls Rifle Team

By Jack Brummet, 2nd Amendment Ed.


This is a photograph of The Drexel Institute Girls' Rifle Team, circa 1925. Drexel, in Philly, later became (and still us) Drexel University.  

My high school, Kent-Meridian, had a Rod & Gun Club, but we were (back then) a farm town. How about your school?
I wonder if they still have these clubs? I remember people bringing rifles to school, and--I think I remember--their teacher locking them up until they were going out. I don't know where they went to shoot ( I don't remember any [fishing] rods, just guns).
Maybe they went out to the gravel pits, the powerlines, or Ravensdale, Buckley, Hobart, or Cumberland. Those were pretty normal places to go shoot, drink beer, just escape from adults, or smoke pot.
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Saturday, December 05, 2015

Drawing: Faces #1293 - old red wooden tray

By Jack Brummet

[9"x12" painted wooden box with Sharpie—the wood 
and paint was so rough it took three sharpies]




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Friday, December 04, 2015

The Paul Ryan/Speaker of the House Beard Controversy

By Jack Brummet, GOP-Tea Party Ed.

Some of the GOP-Tea Party are not happy with the Speaker's beard. The last bearded Speaker was in 1911. 



The old guard are either shaking their heads mournfully, or filling their Depends™, thinking fruitcake, hipster, queer, pinko, commie, beatnik, or n****** in the woodpile.
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Thursday, December 03, 2015

Images from the unveiling of Ex-VP Dick Cheney's marble bust in the Capitol

By Jack Brummet, National Affairs Ed.

Vice President Dick Cheney and friends at the U.S Senate dedication ceremony to unveil his bust at the Capitol Visitor Center this morning. (Photos by Brendan Smialowski, AFP, courtesy of Getty Images)

Mass shootings: what are we waiting for?

By Mona Goldwater, Social Mores Ed.

Sure, we can wait for the Man Upstairs to swing into action, but he's been slow on the uptake.

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