Once More Into the Breach(with apologies to the Bard) ACT XXIV, SCENE 13. On the eve of the health care battle. Enter the PRESIDENT. PELOSI. O that we now had here But one one-hundred of those Blue Dogs That face no re-election to-day! OBAMA....
Your Money or Your GovernmentIowahawk Guest Commentary by Professor Egon Klaus Nefarius Chairman, Diabolic Racketeering and Crime Organization (D.R.A.C.O.) Attention, people of the United States! Did you really believe that you had forever destroyed my delicious dreams of global crime conquest? That I would...
Take That, Tojo!That's right, mister! The Axis automotive powers have declared war on American motorists and our cherished union-made way of life. They've established secret assembly beach heads in so-called "right-to-work" occupied Vichy states like Alabama and Tennessee, manufacturing six sigma deathtrap...
Tee Many MartoonisRing-a-ding-ding! Have just returned refreshed from my annual February mental heath constitutional / cocktail binge in the swank retro mecca of Palm Springs, California, ready to resume blogging as soon as the hangovers subside. Herewith are the Cliff Notes. Friday...
In New York Town, Scrappy Newspaper Struggles to Survive[A few readers have asked me to chime in on the NY Times' latest anthropological study on the Tea Party movement. No can do, as I'm off to sunny Southern California for my winter constitutional. As a substitute, (and to...
Economical Romantic Gift Ideas SolicitedChicago Valentine weekend greetings to Iowahawk readers from me & Lil' Cupid Scarface: But therein lies a problem. The sluggish economy (and a recent spate of misfortune at Wisconsin's bingo casinos) has left me in a gift-giving pickle. As you...
I Am Ashamed of My ToroReader Milt Clary shares this impressive Big Block Chevy machine that treats the symptoms of global cooling while simultaneously attacking its source: If you're tired of anemic, one-lung snowblowers with their slipping drive belts, you might consider Kai Grundt's V8...
Black History Month: Big Willie, Tomiko, and the BrotherhoodBig Willie and Chicago's Chris "The Golden Greek" Karamasines A few years ago I posted a Black History Month essay on the history of Black drag racing, in which I mentioned the great SoCal street racer Big Willie Robinson. A...
The People's Revolutionary Jumpsuit BrigadeThroughout the annals of time, one finds a handful of events that have inexorably altered the very course of human history: the the Boston Tea Party. The burning of the library at Alexandria. The invention of the plow. The 1982...
Heart of Redness[Ungawa! The Tea Party natives are restless, sparking alarm among the civilized panjandrums of the coastal media Raj. Who are these mysterious Fly-Over savages? What do they want? Conjectures abound, but only a few brave souls have dared strap on...
