This week's BOW (Buffoon Of the Week) Award is a bit different from recent ones, in that we'll be focusing in depth on a single issue question.

I'll begin by stating the obvious:  There was plenty of buffoonery this week -- the staffers with Barack Obama's Presidential campaign who refused to let two Muslim women sit behind the candidate during a ( Read more... )

Did anyone else hear Dubya's comments today on his "new energy initiatives"?  Did anyone notice that he didn't say a single word -- not one! -- about conservation?  Does anyone else find this deeply disturbing?  We could drill every inch of land and coastline in the United States and it wouldn't change the fact that there is a finite amount of oil ( Read more... )

I have been asked by a few how it's possible that I've been giving out BOW (Buffoon Of the Week) Awards for so many weeks now, and have yet to give one to our Buffoon in Chief.  I have to admit that I share their astonishment.  I would have thought that Dubya would have earned one of these babies long, long ago.  But this week is the perfect ( Read more... )

Well, I just spent an hour or so writing up my BOW Award entry for this week.  I've been on vacation and I missed last week's BOW Award, and I didn't get to write this week's yesterday, when I usually would have because we were driving home from the beach. (Topsail Island in North Carolina.  Great place.)  Anyway I had a good entry going and was ( Read more... )

Time for this week's BOW (Buffoon Of the Week) Award, and I'm happy to report that with the arrival of warmer weather buffoonery appears to be in full bloom across the nation.  Huzzah!

It started early, with something you may have heard about on The Daily Show the other night.  As many of you know, the Republicans lost a special election in ( Read more... )

Last week's BOW (Buffoon Of the Week) Award entry was a fun one.  Certainly it was lighter than most of those that came before it.  And, I'll warn you now, it was far lighter than this week's is going to be.

As usual, we have no shortage of nominees.  There's John McCain, who during several appearances this week repeated his claim that Hamas, the ( Read more... )

BOW (Buffoon Of the Week) Award time again, and as always, we have no shortage of nominees.

First on our list of possible winners is Bob Johnson, founder of BET (Black Entertainment Television) and a Hillary Clinton supporter, who said this week that Geraldine Ferraro was right in saying that Barack Obama had an easy path to the White House because ( Read more... )