The Scratching Post celebrates Bastille Day!!

From the world’s free encylopedia, i.e. Wikipedia, about Bastille Day:
The storming of the Bastille was more important as a rallying point and symbolic act of rebellion than a practical act of defiance.
And what is PUMA?  We are the peasants, the farmers & everyday people who have had it UP TO HERE with the unfair, undemocratic ways of [...]

Follow The Money!

Something doesn’t make any sense to me. Now some people might think I need to get my tinfoil hat out of the closet but over the years I’ve learned to trust the voices in my head. Well, not about the lottery, but I trust them on other stuff, and the voices are telling me that [...]

Project Much Stupid Kossack?

Caution!!! Big Orange Satan at Work!

By this point I have been called a racist so many times, it doesn’t even phase me anymore.  I’ve pointed out on numerous occasions that by calling us racists, the Obamphiles only minimize real racism when it occurs.  More disturbing, however, is when they project their own racist fantasies onto us.  I have [...]

The Book Confluence: Penelope as Artemis

 In one of the final chapters of The Penelopiad, “An Anthropology Lecture”, the twelve hanged maids relate their and Penelope’s story to that of Artemis, the ”virginal but deadly goddess of the moon”, and the twelve moon-maidens.  In the story, the maidens are willingly sacrificed at the dark-of-the-moon phase so that the new moon goddess may rise [...]

Monday: Obama’s ready for prime time in Iraq

It will be only his second trip into the area but he is already so much better prepared than John McCain to go there. For one thing, he gave a speech in 2002 about how he opposed the war. That was some pretty powerful speech. It is the stuff of legends, mostly because [...]