USO Camp Trip
Welcome to Team Kuwait. I spent the dying days of August with the guys above drawing service men and women in Kuwait, Djibouti, and Incerlik Air Base in Turkey. The trip was sponsored by USO. The...
View ArticleAhmed’s Clock.
Fourteen year old Ahmed Mohamed made a clock and brought it to school. Ahmed’s clock doesn’t look like other clocks. It has a bunch of wires and gizmos inside a briefcase. Ahmed showed it off to his...
View ArticlePlayboy for Millennials
In an effort to capture the attention of millennials, Playboy is ditching naked ladies. It worked for the website. According to Bloomberg: Last year, Playboy.com cleaned up its website to make it...
View ArticleCanadian Dynasty
Stephen Harper led Canada safely though the 2008-2009 financial crisis. He cut taxes, the Canadian dollar reached parity with the U.S. dollar, and the economy boomed with high commodity prices. Now...
View ArticleCNBC Cage Match
The candidates bit back at the moderators during the CNBC debate. For good reason. John Harwood got things started by asking Donald Trump if he’s a comic book presidential candidate. Chris Christie...
View ArticleReally Cool Things
According to Politico, “Jeb Bush has had it with you.” Maureen Dowd thinks that Trump has gotten into Jeb’s head. A week ago, Jeb griped “I’ve got a lot of really cool things I could do other than sit...
View ArticleClock Boy Cashes In
The kid who made a clock that looked like a bomb to a school English teacher now wants 15 million for his trouble. That would be one million dollars per minute of fame for Clock Boy. The post Clock...
View ArticleThe Real Winner
Host Steve Harvey misread his cue card and named Miss Columbia Miss Universe but the real winner was Miss Philippines. Real Winner President Obama thinks he was the real winner of Paris Climate...
View ArticleManziel Concussion
Concussions can cause peculiar behavior. Johnny Manziel reportedly showed up in Vegas the night before the last Browns game. He wore a fake mustache, glasses and blonde wig. The Browns lost. The post...
View ArticleCrony In Chief
Ted Cruz has an ad showing Donald Trump bulldozing a widow’s home in order to make room for limousine parking at Trump Plaza. Trump didn’t do that. But he tried. He got the state of New Jersey to use...
View ArticleRepublican Establishment Melt Down
In the run-up to the New Hampshire primary Byron York began asking Republican establishment types if they knew anyone who supports Trump. Here’s what he found: “I don’t know anybody who supports him.”...
View ArticleBreakfast with Bernie
On his way from Vermont to South Carolina, Bernie Sanders pulled off in New York for “half a cup of coffee” with Al Sharpton. Breakfast with Bernie The old white guy from 90% white Vermont is trailing...
View ArticleChristie and The Donald
New Jersey tough guy Governor Chris Christie was once smitten with President Obama. But now that’s all water under the bridge. He left the president’s warm embrace for Donald Trump. Christie and The...
View ArticleJust Say No
Here’s a good example of a cartoon gone bad. On Monday the NYT ran a story about the heroin epidemic spreading across the cities of America. The Times editors chose to place that story on the front...
View ArticleObama Lectures Reporters
President Obama lectures reporters on reporting. Jack Shafer reported in Politico on the president’s address at a journalism awards ceremony. The occasion was the Toner Prize for Political Reporting...
View ArticleGo Canada
Lena Dunham says she’ll move to Canada if Donald Trump is elected president. No word on whether Justin Trudeau has begun building a wall. The post Go Canada appeared first on Bokbluster.com.
View ArticleMedia Trump Loves to Hate
Donald Trump calls news shows to be interviewed. He never turns down a microphone. The media can’t resist him and now he’s the Republican presumptive nominee. Media Trump Loves to Hate But it’s media...
View ArticleCincinnati King Kong
In the latest remake of King Kong, Harambe The Gorilla played the great ape role admirably and the four year old boy filled in nicely for Fay Wray, Jessica Lange, or Naomi Watts as you prefer. The...
View ArticleHillary’s Nuclear Codes Words
Hillary attacked The Donald in a major foreign policy speech. She said he’s temperamentally unfit to be president: “Donald Trump’s ideas aren’t just different, they’re dangerously incoherent. They’re...
View ArticleMuhammad Ali’s Best Years
Muhammad Ali gave up the best years of his boxing career for something he believed in. He refused induction into the army during the Vietnam war. By the early 70’s most of the country was on his side...
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