Category: Humor
Mitt Romney’s Sense of Entitlement
Ever since I was a child, I tried to be the best… So what happened? My family and friends all said I was blessed… So what happened? –Elder Price, “I Believe,” The Book of... Read More
What Broccoli Teaches Us About Politics
The Radical Right-Wing Broccoli Agenda This is the unedited transcript of a speech delivered earlier today by Presidential Candidate Andrew Pancake to the Broccoli Roundtable Of Central Coastal Occide... Read More
Vice Presidential Choice as a Leading Indicator: Or, Why the Choice of Mini-Mitt Spells Doom
I am not an expert on the presidency; my academic work is focused on the Congress. Whether that makes me an expert on Congress is a matter of heated debate. Nonetheless, as an academic political scien... Read More
Putt’s Law: It’s not just a bad idea, it’s The Law
How can an organization be so completely and utterly ineffective? Working in the CSU it is a question that I ask myself on a regular basis. I have worked at several universities that evidenced various... Read More
‘Dear Leader’ Charlie Reed Retires–Reaction Mixed
News of the Chancellor’s resignation arrived on my phone as I sat at a conference session in Athens, Georgia. Sitting with a CSU colleague we high-fived each other, the audible slap causing a br... Read More
Chancellor Claus: Some of us have been better than others!
You may have missed this. I know that I did. Our “dear leader” (California State University Chancellor Charles Reed) with presents for everyone (but more presents for some!).... Read More
If I Were a Middle-Class White Guy
It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps. –Martin Luther King, Jr. ... Read More
