We at TRMS are always on the lookout for apt metaphors to help clarify and illustrate the news. As for last night’s Republican-induced government shutdown? How

Good news: Big Tex is back. The 55-foot-high, 61-year-old cowboy who presided for decades over the State Fair of Texas in Fair Park has been restored to his

Embroiled as we are in the midst of football season — political and otherwise — a seemingly trivial college gridiron spat has unwittingly tapped a rich

Call it a coincidence, but concurrent with the Right’s new-found man-crush on the oft-shirtless Russian president Vladimir Putin, Minneapolis mayoral candidate

Texas conservatives have long fantasized about secession, (Gov. Rick Perry included), but now the Texas Republican candidate for attorney general, Barry

Last year, both Steve and I wrote posts discussing the induction of Rush Limbaugh into Missouri’s Hall of Fame. At the time, there seemed little of redeeming

The endless hand-wringing over President Obama’s birth certificate inspired its share of well deserved satire, ridicule, and more satire. Likewise, the

Great American writer Elmore Leonard, author of the novels Glitz, Get Shorty, Rum Punch, Out of Sight and so many more, has died at age 87 at his home in

You know Republicans are starting to worry about their obstreperous image when no less than Newt Gingrich, speaking yesterday at the opening luncheon of the

After reading Steve’s post about Texas Republicans’ bizarre freakout over a Democratic effort to drum up new voters (an apoplectic Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst