Truthdig Columns

2011

03/20 Afraid to Watch the News, Millions Turn to Fox

03/13 Etch A Sketch 2 Takes Gadget World by Storm

03/06 Unemployment Rose Last Week by Two and a Half Men

02/20 Ahmadinejad Promises Democratic Reforms in Egypt

02/13 Republicans Cut Shirts From Budget

02/07 Obama to Resort to Communicating With Mubarak in Caps

01/30 Michele Bachmann Proposes ‘Don’t Add, Don’t Spell’

01/23 In New Era of Civility, GOP Says Obama Born ‘Near America’

01/23 Hu Presents Obama With Counterfeit DVD

01/17 Fox News Reports No Link Between Matches, Gasoline and Fire

01/09 Steve Jobs Snoozes, Apple Loses: It’s Cause for Alarm

01/02 Blizzard a Case of God-Blocking, Robertson Says

2010

12/26 Goldman’s Massive Bonuses ‘Totally Deserved,’ Says Satan

12/19 Assange to Launch Social Network for Diplomats: Twofacebook

12/13 In Latest Compromise, Obama Agrees He Is a Muslim

12/06 U.S. Orders Diplomats to Stop Telling Truth

11/21 10 (Fake) Plagiarized Lines From Bush’s Book

11/14 Somali Pirates Refuse to Board Carnival Cruise Ships

11/07 Canada Reports Huge Jump in Immigration

10/31 Christine O’Donnell Favors Separation of Speech and Thought

10/24 Three Things to Do When Clarence Thomas’ Wife Calls You

10/17 Existence of Tea Party Candidates Casts Doubt on Evolution

10/10 Karzai to Take His Talents to Minneapolis

10/03 Democrats to Employ Man Who Played Obama During 2008 Campaign

09/19 Delaware Masturbators March Against O’Donnell

09/12 Rabid Dog Briefly Mistaken for Tea Party Candidate

07/25 Palin Says Refudiate Appears in Fictionary

07/11 Millions Watch Rich Guy Get New Job

06/27 Hawking: Aliens ‘No Longer Interested’ in Invading Earth

06/20 BP Develops Technology to Convert Lies Into Energy

06/13 Tiger: At Least I Didn’t Screw the Entire Gulf of Mexico

05/30 Experts Propose Plugging Oil Leak With BP Executives

05/23 China to Stop Spying on Its People, Will Use Facebook Instead

05/16 Citing Kagan’s Lack of Judging Experience, GOP Proposes Paula Abdul

05/09 Greece Offers to Repay Loans with Giant Horse

05/02 Somali Pirates Say They Are Subsidiary of Goldman Sachs

04/25 Goldman CEO to Perform Community Service as Treasury Secretary

04/18 Can’t Have a Decent Apocalypse Without a Full Cast

04/11 iPad™ Wins Nobel Peace Prize

04/04 Obama’s Obscure Pronunciation of ‘Nuclear’ Breaks With Tradition

03/28 Let’s Leave This Voting Thing to the Socialists, OK?

03/22 In Texas, History Isn’t What It Used to Be

03/14 Americans to Lose One Hour to Daylight Saving and the Rest to Facebook, Twitter

03/07 GOP Lawmaker Demands Recall of Car That Drove Him to Gay Club

02/28 Toyota Chief Overshoots Congressional Hearings by 150 Miles

02/21 Tiger’s Mistresses Fill Yankee Stadium to View Press Conference

2008

12/28 Shirtless President-Elect Creates Crisis of Confidence

12/22 Caroline Kennedy Asks to Be Time’s Person of the Year

11/24 Obama’s Use of Complete Sentences Stirs Controversy

10/12 Palling Around With Meteorologists

09/21 Palin’s Secret to Instant Knowledge

09/15 Remark Returns to Bite the Governor

09/07 Pollsters Probe the Big Bigot Bloc

08/24 Don’t Lick the Medals

08/17 Athlete Without Compelling Personal Drama Expelled From Olympics

07/27 Plodding Down the Information Superhighway

07/20 5 Approved Obama Jokes

07/13 Traitor to a Losing Tradition

07/06 Cold-Filtered Economics

06/22 A Revolutionary Campaign

06/08 Less than Literate

06/02 Her Own Worst Enemy

05/25 Fighting Until the End, and Then Some

05/18 The Other Man

04/27 Get Your Own Smear Tactics

04/20 Olympic Hide and Seek

04/14 How Can We Miss Him if He Won’t Go Away?

03/30 Bush Stands Firm on Environment

03/23 Prescription Accomplished

03/16 Monster Community Weighs In on Campaign Controversy

03/10 The President You Are Trying to Reach Is Unavailable

03/02 Old Habits Die Hard

02/22 Shrub and the Rocket

02/10 Social Terror Networking

01/27 The Perils of Pandering

01/21 How Much Is That Superpower in the Window?

01/11 2008’s News Before It Happens

01/06 A Sex—and Race—Change for Hillary

2007

12/22 The Race for Name-Caller in Chief

12/09 Oh My God, What a Ticket!

11/23 Bush Gives Thanks

11/18 Hillary’s Supermarket Conundrum

11/11 A Dictator Gets Tips From an Old Pro

11/04 Hillary’s Unassailable Strategy

10/07 Sen. Clinton Beefs Up the Competition

09/30 The Global War on Toddlerism

09/15 Thompson Quits to Spend More Time With His Nap

09/09 Down to Their Last Billion

09/02 Domestic Surveillance Begins at Home

08/26 Put an Asterisk Next to Rove’s Name

08/05 What’s This? Scooter McCain?

07/29 Cheney: What I Did on My Summer Vacation

07/20 War Strategy a Flop?  Transform(er) It

07/14 Scooter’s Deal Is the American Dream

07/07 Satire: Cheney Hides in Plain Sight

06/17 Satire: Congress Hires Illegals to Write Immigration Bill

06/02 Satire: Hillary Tries to Fatten Up the Competition

05/27 Wolfowitz’s Next Assignment

05/19 Shades of White

05/13 Buck Up, Wolfie: There’s Always eHarmony