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GOP Staffer Criticizes Obama Daughters Following Turkey Pardon Ceremony
I spent Thanksgiving Day weekend up north with my extended family. I briefly made note of the annual presidential "pardoning of the turkey" ceremony. My only thought at the time was that the media was...
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Anna Cardwell of "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" Launched $20,000 FundMe Campaign
Anna "Chickadee" Cardwell, formerly of "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo," caught some flack this weekend from her fans when she launched a FundMe fundraising campaign to help her and her family out.It's been...
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Fearful Police Arrest Man for Pointing Banana at Them
Two deputies from Grand Junction, CO, really need to retire. They are losing their edge. They arrested a 27-year-old man a couple Sundays back because he freaked them out. They were completely fearful...
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Santa Claus Fired After Refusing Service to Autistic Girl with Service Dog
Abcde & Pup-cakeSanta Claus and one of his elves were fired from a California mall after they refused services to a 7-year-old autistic girl and her service dog:Pup-cake, a pit bull, had stood in...
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Arizona Pastor's Plan for an AIDS-Free Christmas: Kill All The Homos!
Pastor Steven Anderson of Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, AZ, has come up with the perfect way to achieve an AIDS-free Christmas: kill all the homos:Turns to Leviticus 20:13, because I actually...
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Des Moines Man Assaulted Pregnant Wife for Bringing Him a McChicken Sandwich...
A 21-year-old man from Des Moines, IA, was jailed yesterday after he assaulted his pregnant wife with a McChicken sandwich.This is the part where you are supposed to laugh. Because it involved a...
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What's the Point of Police Body-Cams in a Post-Eric Garner World?
You would need to be living under a rock to not know that there was no indictment connected to the police chokehold death of Eric Garner. Officer Daniel Pantalo got away with choking a man on camera...
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Racism-Themed Public Artwork Removed from University of Iowa Campus Following...
Multimedia artist Serhat Tanyolacar received a lot of attention here in Iowa City when he displayed a sculpture of a KKK member on the University of Iowa Pentacrest earlier today:(It was) a 7-foot-tall...
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The Pet Posse Returns in ARCHIE COMICS ANNUAL #256!!
ARCHIE COMICS ANNUAL #256 has a great assortment of classic reprints featuring the Riverdale Gang, the Archies and Wilbur. But it also features the return of my favorite band of Riverdale animals: The...
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Kansas MCC Pastor & Church Receiving Daily Death Threats Over Gay Marriage...
I've mentioned before that I'm completely confused these days when it comes to determining which states are marriage equality states and which ones aren't. I thought that Kansas had a stay in place,...
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University of Iowa Student Claims Excessive Force Related to September 2014...
A story has erupted today here in Iowa City involving the UI Police Department. Let's get beyond my beef with the idea that the University of Iowa has its own police department. Back on September 12,...
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Christmas Wedding Bells in ARCHIE #622??
ARCHIE #662 is the second Christmas issue of the year. The concept is pretty simple. What do you give the man who has pretty much everything? That's the question raised by Archie Andrews after he...
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Abominable Snowman & Poodle Walk the Streets of Allouez, WI!
I learned earlier today that the abominable snowman and her poodle have relocated from Misfit Island to Allouez, WI. Bumble and her poodle Blizzard apparently came to Allouez to bring joy and happiness...
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Jon's Spine: 12/05/14
Back in October, I received an electronic spinal scan from a local chiropractor. He's worked with me for a few weeks since then and recently completed an updated scan of my back. And why wouldn't you...
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Iowa City Drag Queen to Compete on "RuPaul's Drag Race"
An Iowa City drag queen named Sasha Belle is one of 13 drag performers who will be competing on the 7th season of Logo's "RuPaul's Drag Race."The Iowa City star who frequents that city's Studio 13 club...
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AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE #7: This is What the First Thanksgiving Must've been...
AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE #7 finally got published yesterday. It seems like seven months since the surviving members of the Riverdale Gang escaped from Jughead and his undead horde of zombies (back in...
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Baptist Minister & Horse Protest Gay Marriage in Mississippi
Rev. Edward James of Bertha Chapel Missionary Baptist Church in Jackson, MS, wanted to protest same-sex marriage earlier today. So he went to his local federal courthouse and communicated his...
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Mama June of "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" Offered $1 Million to Make Porn
I woke this morning to crazy news about June "Mama June" Shannon and Mike "Sugar Bear" Thompson of "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo."TMZ reported late last night that Mama June and Sugar Bear can earn at...
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AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE: My Theory About Jellybean Jones
I blogged a few days ago about AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE #7. Towards the end of that post, I noted that we've been promised an appearance of one sort or another from Jellybean Jones, Jughead Jones' little...
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Betty Learns Self-Defense & Purse-Snatchers Menace Riverdale in ARCHIE'S...
I just finished reading through ARCHIE'S FUNHOUSE JUMBO COMICS DIGEST #11. It's the first digest from Archie Comics that doesn't have a Christmas theme -- though it does feature a brand new lead story...
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