Month: September 2010

There’s no telling when our friendship with the Saudi regime will pop up and bite us in the ass, but it’s bound to do so from time to time. The latest episode? The first secretary of the Saudi consulate in Los...

From time to time (usually, once a month) I ask readers to make a contribution to the upkeep of the Frog Pond. Ordinarily, this is just enough to keep the server humming and the place afloat. But the time has come to do some...

This clip of some wacko running for Stark County Ohio Treasurer is making the rounds. I hereby nominate him for the Bobcat Goldthwait school of political theater award instead. GOP Wacko Bobcat

Hey, if you want to get nostalgic, think back to when we all felt united and we were proud of how we all came together. And, you know, The Boss had something important to say. Didn’t happen. George Bush and Dick Cheney...

But, we’re not stoopid: The Pew Research Center asked people this summer to identify the current chief justice of the United States from among four possibilities: John Roberts, Thurgood Marshall, John Paul Stevens and...