Skunky’s Monkey House

The world lost one of the great comedians this week with the death of George Carlin. There was a time in my youth when I could have recited every line from his AM/FM album, nearly wearing out the vinyl from playing so much.

This week we have a doozy. The story comes out of Tampa, Florida and involves the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s office. Surveillance footage from January 29 shows deputy Charlette Marshall-Jones, 44, dumping Brian Sterner out of his wheelchair and searching him on the floor after he was brought in on a warrant after a traffic violation. [...]

I’ve recently been bothered by the really poor headlines and glaring typos on major news outlets web sites. I mean, who writes headlines like “Candidate X wins, what does that mean?”. It means he got the majority of the vote you idiot! I realize that wasn’t the intention of the question, but it’s still a [...]

He’s baaaaack! No, not me, everyone’s favorite racist asshat, the exalted, high and mighty Reverend Al Sharpton. This past weekend at a golf tournanament in Hawaii, a commentator made a poor judgement call and used the L word while talking about Tiger Woods. No, no, no, not that L word. I mean, Tiger’s wife is [...]

How many times have you read a news story where the reporter gets their information from some unnamed source that “spoke on condition of anonymity”. The reporter then goes on to write and quote this hearsay in the article as if it’s an official fact. I am so sick of the tripe that gets reported [...]