Posts by Jim Washburn

2010-08-17 Obama Administration to Ease Cuba Travel Restrictions
Maybe, Sorta, Kinda Making It Easier
2010-08-13 The LA Times Can Tell If You’re Gay
At least it can with Judge Walker.
2010-08-01 Cuba to Allow More Private Enterprise
Raul Castro rocks, sorta.
2010-07-24 Awkward Headline of the Week: Gay Soldier’s Discharge
The OC Register shows its usual tact.
2010-07-13 Sean Penn and a Cast of Thousands in Haiti
The Actor is running a tent city, says it’s like directing.
2010-07-12 Fidel Castro to Compete on “Dancing With the Stars”
He’ll do the fandango.
2010-07-07 Cuba to Free 52 Political Prisoners
How about that?
2010-07-05 They’ll Stone Ya Just Like They Said They Would
Death by Stoning in Iran
2010-06-26 Demon Possession Made Easy: Check This Site
Try it, spawn of Satan.
2010-06-24 Homeless Ventriloquist Contest: Mmmm Snickers for You!
Some food for thought.
2010-06-21 Is Democracy Toast? Some Final (i.e. Tardy) Thoughts on the Election
Pooping in the wrong booth.
2010-06-17 FourStory in Cuba: More Nuanced, Less Naive, Maybe a Little Liquored-Up
A Cuban-American’s take.
2010-06-03 Bullets, Not Houses: More of Your Tax Dollars at Work
Israeli Weapons Kill and Injure US Citizens
2010-05-31 Oy, the Humanity! Israel Attacks Blockade Runners
Our tax dollars at work.
2010-05-23 Cuba: Your Marginally Less Repressive Caribbean Paradise
Raul Castro makes life a little less odious for political prisoners.
2010-05-18 The Rep. Mark Souder Affair: Do Hypocrites Make Better Lovers?
More penis trouble for the GOP.
2010-05-17 Lewis Black: Glenn Beck Has Nazi Tourette’s
Nazi schmatzie.
2010-04-22 More Bush Residue at the SEC: Staffers Watched Porn
New study shows shit.
2010-04-20 Women Rock Your World, With Earthquakes
Are Iranian clerics nuttier than U.S. ones?
2010-04-19 Another Darned Perspective on Cuba
The Catholic Church weighs in.
2010-04-09 God Hates Faggots and Coal Miners
Phelps’ church cheers coal mine deaths.
2010-04-06 An Incautious God and His Thunderbolts
A Photographer’s death on film.
2010-03-30 A Real Conservative Sounds Off on Health Care
Nicolas Sarcozy: not just arm candy.
2010-03-10 GOP Gov Contenders to Debate
Monday in OC.
2010-03-10 US Farmers Eye Cuba
Maybe they’ll eat the junk we grow.
2010-03-10 Movie Theater Stabbing: He’s Done!
What the hell, Lancaster?
2010-03-10 Massa’s in the Cold, Cold Ground, on Glenn Beck
Retired Rep. Eric Massa admits to tickling.
2010-03-08 The Masochism Tango
GOP State Sen. Roy Ashburn hates his gay self.
2010-03-02 Chile Quake May Benefit Workers Worldwide
The Establishment is all shook up.
2010-03-01 Is Weed Killer Making You Its Bitch?
Atrazine “chemically castrates” amphibians. Us too?
2010-02-17 Erwin’s ’Ermits: UCI Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky Depicts an Extreme Supreme Court
The Roberts court will outlive us.
2010-02-12 Is Sarah Palin a Fucking Retard? Colbert Thinks So
Such incivility.
2010-01-29 Is Nancy Pelosi Funding Terrorists?
Put Botox in the Ixnay Box
2010-01-21 Hooray for the Escaped Haitian Convicts, Too
Rock out with the rusty machetes!
2010-01-20 Fooey on Haiti Haters, and Hooray for the USA For a Change
The U.S. gets on the good foot for a change.
2010-01-13 Latte! Pussy! Sensational NorthWest Combo Filmed by Cops!
No kidding, snatch at a Grab-n-Go coffee stand! Don’t Look! Run Away!
2010-01-07 Our Shrinking Times: LA Times to Close OC Plant
The Morning Attrition.
2010-01-04 Homeless Poisoned in Colombia
Deadly New Year for some.
2009-12-26 Atheists are Taking Over!!! Move to Mississippi Now!!!
From the front lines of the War on Christmas.
2009-12-26 Saudi Arabia: Probably Not the Best Place for a Harry Potter Theme Park
More scimitar har hars from our allies in the war on reason.
2009-12-14 Distant Powers: The L.A. Times’ Physically, Emotionally Removed Music Critic
Jim bitches.
2009-10-07 Murder Most Foul, It’s the Stinkiest
California “horrorcore” rapper accused in Virginia murders.
2009-09-23 Members Only: Penis Imperiled in Pendulous Predicament
Dick dick dick.
2009-09-17 Final Sign of the Apocalypse: Bob Dylan Records Christmas Album
Folk music’s Bob Dylan rides the yule log.
2009-08-19 Birth Certificate Found! Obama was Born in Austria, with a Mustache!
Obama’s a Nazi now, if you hadn’t noticed.
2009-07-14 Empathy: It’s Some Weird Commie Shit
Rich white senators are having none of it.
2009-07-08 Goodbye, Pork Pie Democrat
It’s Republicans who are crowding the federal trough.
2009-07-05 Nuts to Alaska! More Sarah Palin Bloviating
Sarah Palin has a higher calling; it’s her publisher on the phone
2009-07-03 Sarah Palin in Desperate Bid to Upstage Michael Jackson
WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF, I mean, really, what the …
2009-06-26 Sky Saxon RIP
The Seeds singer dies in Austin, Texas.
2009-06-24 S. Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford’s Extramarital Wanderlust
What, aren’t American hussies good enough for him?
2009-06-24 Your Father’s In That Glass, Talking to You
Forget the “hidden persuaders” in the ice cubes and grow a pair.
2009-06-12 The Sludge That Dare Not Speak Its Name
Homeland Security wraps coal industry toxic waste in secrecy.
2009-06-01 New Hope for the Wretched: Tomato Pills!
British scientists’ tomato-based pill fights heart disease.
2009-05-18 All Shook Up
Earthquake felt everywhere except on TV.
2009-05-18 Huddled Masses Yearning Elsewhere
Immigration to US from Mexico drops sharply: US sucks too much.
2009-05-01 Livin’ on Dog Food
For many Americans, it might as well be pate.
2009-05-01 Hate for Rent
“God Hates Fags” churchmember come to OC.
2009-04-17 Another Cost of Iraq
Injured civilian contractors have to fight for treatment.
2009-04-13 It’s Raining Panties! The Obama Military Budget
Conservatives complain a $21 billion increase is “gutting” our military.
2009-04-06 The Sheltering Sty
Immigrant children found living in Roman sewers.
2009-03-16 Cry, Baby
More on Orange County defunding Planned Parenthood’s sex-safety program.
2009-02-25 Move over 420, here comes 390
An Assembly bill aims to legalize, and tax, marijuana.
2009-02-16 Space Debris and Submarines: As If There Wasn’t Enough to Worry About
How about building more houses and fewer missiles?
2009-02-08 We’re All in the Pool With Michael Phelps
The War on Drugs is killing our recovery buzz.
2009-01-20 Medical Update
Prognosis.
2009-01-12 The Loathsome Life of William Zantzinger
Dylan song fodder drops dead.
2008-12-15 Shoe Explosion in Iraq!
Bush shooed off in Baghdad.
2008-12-14 Homeless in Space
In Battlestar Galactica, eviction’s a bitch.
2008-12-09 Could Corruption Save the LA Times?
The Times’ parent company could have benefited from Illinois Gov’s alleged corruption.
2008-12-08 Empathetic Journalism: LA Times’ Parent Company Files for Bankruptcy
The Tribune Co. “explores” Chapter 11.
2008-11-25 Whacked by an Angel
Echoes of today in a 1933 movie.
2008-11-24 We Are Shocked
One contractor you don’t want wiring your home.
2008-11-24 2012: Get That Abattoir Ready in the Rose Garden
Link to the uncensored Sarah Palin turkey interview.
2008-11-16 Anywhere You Wear Your Hat
Homes of the rich and poor, in books, on Earth.
2008-10-16 Taking White-Out to the Constitution
Not a landowner? Then you may not be much of a citizen.