Tag Archives: sadness

Kentucky: 49th Happiest State in Union

November 11, 2009 – 6:52 pm

Oh Jesus: it’s really come down to this, hasn’t it? I mean, it’s one thing to be named the most perverted city in the country, quite another to be labeled as one of the dumbest, too… but telling us that we are among the saddest bastards in this nation? Pass the shotgun shells, please, and [...]

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Obama on Ft. Hood, War, Peace & Sacrifice

November 10, 2009 – 4:47 pm

On the eve of Veteran’s Day — which for most of us means just another day that banks are closed and the mail gets fucked up — President Obama has prepared a speech of the kind pundits dub “very presidential,” which means the themes are lofty, universal and (hopefully) inspiring. But since he is the president, it [...]

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Ross’ Murder A Too Common Fate Among Women

September 15, 2009 – 3:30 pm

MUNFORDVILLE — Former state Rep. Steve Nunn told state police hours after his former fiancée was shot to death that he “was at the end of his rope and wanted revenge” because of a domestic violence dispute with the woman, according to arrest records filed in Hart County.
Nunn also relayed his feelings in a seven-page [...]

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Pre-Existing Conditions

August 18, 2009 – 5:54 pm

When I traveled to Washington, D.C., to witness the inauguration of Barack Obama as Decider-in-Chief, the feelings of possibility and change were palpable. They coursed through the National Mall, providing for the mammoth crowd a kind of insulation against January’s bitter cold and, perhaps, against a belief that this country might very well be fucked [...]

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Dr. Obamastein’s Monster: “Ungh, Ergh, Health Care!”

July 20, 2009 – 2:45 pm

Quick! Stop it before it throws a little girl into a well! Seriously, we could spend plenty of time discussing how the TARP money was spent prior to Obama’s coup of the White House, or how Franklin Roosevelt spent more money than God and fixed an economy that was broken by Wall Street the first [...]

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Obligatory Fourth of July A/V Timewasters

July 3, 2009 – 12:09 pm

Forget for a moment that our country is still fucked and watch these videos, you patriotic hunk of American exceptionalism you!

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The More You Know…

March 12, 2009 – 1:13 pm

So the biggest news story to come around since the invention of the teletype, or the polio vaccine, or the razor gator, and The Courier-Journal only runs a tiny blurb? Sad to say it, but the hemorrhaging news industry is taking its toll on my local newspaper’s ability to print meaty AP news stories regarding [...]

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