Distractions

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Waldo Lydecker: Glimpses of a Life

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Tuesday, January 5, 2021

The "oopsie!' defense

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 A federal judge looked at Trump's last migratory bird murder regulation and called it rubbish. The gummint enacted it anyway.

So bony she makes Ann Coulter jealous

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Senator Kelly Loeffler (R-New York Stock Exchange) says Trump has never spoken a word she disagrees with. That, she says, makes her the perf...

"But I- trust fund brat of the universe- broke through, with the powerful of mojo of a Trump squeeze! I alone!

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 “Virtually every power center on Earth joined the cause. That included big business, Wall Street, the defense establishment, pharma, the pe...

Remember when Republicans sang the Magic Negro song?

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 Who is the real one here?

It's a math problem, dear. When Joe gets 81m votes, Joe wins.

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Meet the dumbest retired schoolteacher in America: Susan Huff, 77, also felt that a Trump defeat did not make sense. “I do believe Trump was...

Bolt the doors, bar the windows, hide your women: the Christians are coming

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Trump, we've been told ad nauseam, does the work of God. In fact, God chose Trump. Trump’s former energy secretary Rick Perry has said t...

New obsessions for lockdown times

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I have a very similar kitchen stove exhaust fan like Monica’s. In fact, I had one at my last home that I thought was so powerful it would su...
Monday, January 4, 2021

Old Georgia collides with new: Groundhog Day is every day, but the state's Lost Cause mascot, General Beauregard Lee, won't squint till Biden is president

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"Among many other false claims, Mr. Trump and his lawyers have claimed that thousands of votes were cast in Georgia by people who were ...

Almost as transient an honorific as becoming the oldest person in the world.

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On December 22, 2020, the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference (SVWC) announced that American author, essayist, and fiction writer Barry Lopez has...

Who knew? All this time, Mike Pence has been just pretending to be a robotic bumbler. In fact, Trump owes him everything.

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Charlie Kirk is a young man who got his start sprouting campus groups to give bad Yelp! style reviews to bully them into making little Nazi-...
Sunday, August 18, 2019

Lots of people giggled when the Log Cabin Republicans endorsed he president after rejecting him in 2016. Want some easy spit-takes? Here's a line-by-line of just how servile they are.

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On August 14, the Department of Labor announced a new rule allowing religious employers the maximum freedom to discriminate against LG...
Thursday, July 4, 2019

In his rush to repeal meaningless federal rules, the president has overlooked the flag code.

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"Any rule or custom pertaining to the display of the flag of the United States of America, set forth herein, may be altered, modifi...
Thursday, May 16, 2019

UNC board members tells male graduates, buy a nice ring for a woman, and both will increase in value

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A Jesse Helms protege shared his Ozzie-and-Harriet worldview with UNC-Wilmington graduates at their graduation last weekend. Tossin...
Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Pawns flock to Bishop in NC congressional do-over primary

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Decades of data tell us that political primary voters are the most motivated, and ideologically strict- of all registered residents in a...
Monday, April 8, 2019

Scandal-plagued NCGOP launches new voter registration drive

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Torbett often like to rides his motorcycle down to South Carolina, where helmets aren't required. "It's not the hair b...

Fear of firing

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The Acting President has added another acting cabinet member.
Friday, April 5, 2019

For fading Fox News stars, Sinclair Broadcasting is the new Branson; sex creeps welcome

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Sinclair Broadcast Group, the nation’s largest TV station owner, rolled out its latest news and public affairs program this week, a one-...