Neil Degrasse Tyson: Not Off the Hook Yet
If you haven’t yet heard about the small but significant scandal concerning Neil Degrasse Tyson, the astrophysicist and host of the TV series “Cosmos,” who frequently speaks to audiences about cosmology, climate-change (as they’re calling it this week), and the shocking state of science literacy in America, you will be excused. The scandal has not…
Tell It Like It Is, Brother
Hero of the month: Tyree Landrum, a working stiff who quite nicely captures the utter stupidity of Ferguson rioters in San Diego: Thank you, sir. I bless you, wish you life.
Best First Sentence Contest: Winner Announced
It was another exceptional contest. Read the best entries and find out who won.
$100.00 Best First Sentence Contest — Halloween Edition
Journal Pulp is offering a $100.00 cash prize for the following: Best first sentence for a novel about a clever but silent twelve-year-old girl who’s an only child and who one dark night traveling with her mother and father falls asleep in the backseat of the car — and wakes to find that same car…
Putting the Cock Back in Cocktail: Sazeracs & Manhattans
A reader writes: In your last video (which I enjoyed somewhat) you said the Old-Fashioned isn’t the oldest cocktail on written record, and you are correct. The Sazerac is. When will you do a vid featuring that one, bud? Here you go, bud — though, for the record, it’s not actually known if the Sazerac…
Putting the Cock Back in Cocktail: Mixing the Proper Old-Fashioned
Is there any cocktail that gets people as lathered up about technique as the Old-Fashioned? If there is, I don’t know about it. Come and have a drink with the unwashed.
District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg and Her DUI
I made the following video in honor of District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberhg, who’s suing Texas Governor Rick Perry. Perry was recently indicted on two charges both of which are related to District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg and her allegation that Perry attempted to force her resignation after she was arrested for drunk driving. The grand jury…
How to Make the Perfect Gin Martini
The Perfect Gin Martini: This is Part 8 in our Putting-the-Cock-Back-in-Cocktail series: Don’t forget to watch the Carpet-Licker and the Cosmo. And Getting Numb with Rum
The Hardest Working Man in Politics
Barack Obama, who has been criticized by racists for his tendency to vacation during times of crisis, and who during the course of his presidency has hit the golf links 186 times (so far), once, while plugging his book, said the following: “Uh, umm, you give me this office and in turn my, fears, doubts,…
John Kerry’s Hypocrisy at the African Summit
This week, at the African Summit in Washington DC, John (“Jet-Set”) Kerry lectured us and African leaders on CO2 — saying specifically that building new farms to feed African people will cause too much pollution, and that therefore these farms should therefore not be built. You won’t believe it till you see it: John Kerry,…
Best First Sentence Winner
It was another difficult decision over which I heartached for one week. Here, in no particular order, were the finalists: She sat down exhausted. — Shannon Murray After a lifetime of incubation, she now carried the fatal disease. — Scott She stepped into darkness, and the sickening crunch of dried bones made her cringe. —…
4th of July and the True Nature of Independence
Independence is autonomy. It’s the freedom to govern yourself and to rely upon your own independent judgment. Independence is freedom. But what, finally, is freedom? Freedom, in its most fundamental form, really has only one meaning: it is the omission of force. Freedom is the absence of compulsion. It simply means that you are left…
Hobby Lobby Opponents: Intellectually Stunning
For anyone who, like me, believes an employer should not be forced to pay for his or her employee’s abortifacient, see what you’re up against (i.e. not much): But you already knew that.
The Carpet-Licker and the Cosmo
And other fine, fine cocktails from the 1980’s: Possibly Related: Getting Numb with Rum