Did you ever wish you were one of those big-time journalists in Manhattan, sitting in a nice office, opining on the state of the world each week and getting well paid for it? Would you like to say the same thing over and over again at tiresome length, in prose that reads like it was translated from the original Hungarian? Would you like to occupy and depreciate some of the most valuable journalistic real estate in the country?

Well, you can. All you have to do is follow a few simple rules.

Like most of his fellow, very bad, Op-Ed writers on the New York Times, Frank Rich — non-bestselling author and showbiz wannabee — has a few little bugbears and bogeymen he likes to write about each week in the course of wasting oceans of ink and newsprint in his mind-numbing essays about… well, pretty much nothing, except the usual suspects: show tunes, gay rights, and Those Darned Republicans.

So why don’t you try it?  Just follow the erstwhile Butcher of Broadway’s lead. First, start with some cheap pop-cultural reference: (more…)

What could be more fun than watching the humorless nags of the Left consistently walk into the business end of the same half-open door time and time again and pick up a fresh shiner? Because they can’t help but project their own congenital guilt, rage and misery on everyone else, they’re absolutely sure of two things:

1) Everything is a conspiracy directed against them and the moral high horses they rode in on, and –

2) There’s always a hidden subtext, usually either racist, sexist or homophobic, lurking beneath the Right’s every thought, word and deed.

Which is why they went prematurely bananas over the Tim Tebow/Focus on the Family ads that played yesterday during the Super Bowl pre-game show and during the game itself.  In case you missed them, here they are:

Watch ad #2 after the jump: (more…)

Tim Tebow and his mom, Pam, are going to be in a Super Bowl ad. For those who aren’t college football fans, Tebow is the quarterback for the University of Florida Gators. He was the first underclassman to win the Heisman Trophy and led the Gators to two BCS championships. He’s also headed to the NFL draft, where he’s likely to be the top quarterback pick.

All right, you say, so a college football star is going to be in a Super Bowl ad. Big deal. But wait! The ad was purchased by the dreaded Dr. James Dobson’s pro-life  Focus On the Family! And Tim’s mom will discuss her decision not to abort Tim when he was in her womb. (more…)