The Rake: Defenestrator

Political Theater: WWDCD*

Rich Goldsmith — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:40:26 -0500

*What Would Diablo Cody Do?

The Ron Jeremy Plan for U.S. Economic Performance

Rich Goldsmith — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:38:26 -0500

The latest version of the bailout bill being voted on tonight in Congress doesn't just amount to lipstick on a pig. It's Rush Limbaugh smothered in fetid road kill.

Bring on Brokaw -- Lehrer Doesn't Deliver the Goods

Rich Goldsmith — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:49:33 -0500

Even as Wall Street continued its end run into a cold nuclear winter's meltdown, leading some former investment bankers to seek comfort in the

Photo by Jeff Lennan

There Is No Lesser Evil: Galluping Our Way to the End Times

Rich Goldsmith — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:38:24 -0500

So having said, a while he stood, expecting
Their universal shout, and high applause,
To fill his ear; when, contrary, he hears

Pamela Anderson and Lindsay Lohan on Sarah Palin: The think tank has surfaced.

Jill Yablonski — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:29:09 -0500

Riding on Guest Defenestrator Max Ross' shirttails, I am featuring myself as this week's Guest. Thanks for your hospitality, Rich.

She Turned Me Into a Newt

Rich Goldsmith — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:20:24 -0500

Photos by India Bell

Ron Non-Paul-itics

Jill Yablonski — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:51:07 -0500

By special guest Defenstrator correspondent, Max Ross. You may know him from such fine pieces as "Protest Music for the New Millenium" and "American Idle - Achin' Aiken - [Insert Pun]."

Why are the media even here?

Country, and Republicans, First

Rich Goldsmith — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:51:01 -0500

Save for the lack of scheduled appearances by Valerie Bertinelli, Tiffani Thiessen or Jennie Garth, over the course of the next two

A Complex Calculus: Boone's = Booty

Rich Goldsmith — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:39:50 -0500
District 6 is a bizarre creature. Stretching in a "C" around the metro area from Stillwater all the way to St. Cloud, the district

Securing the Sewers of Saint Paul Against the Crappiest of Villains

Rich Goldsmith — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:15:35 -0500

Hordes of Jihadists, radical liberals and ancient clown-shaped abominations with fantasies of disrupting the Republican National Convention by rising from beneath the streets of Saint Paul like so many crap-coated Lovecraftian elder-beings wept bitterly as public works employees welded downtown manhole covers shut during the last week.

Getting Propositioned

Rich Goldsmith — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:08:59 -0500
” list serves only as a dire warning of the horrific effects of inbreeding, now that the polls have closed on Minnesota’s first annual “Most Beautiful People at the Capitol” awards it’s safe to say that the state’s residents can rest easy in the knowledge that they have some

Tweak Locally, Think Globally

Rich Goldsmith — Wed, 28 May 2008 17:19:50 -0500

Green is the new watchword for consumer products and goods. We can track our carbon footprints, find out how many miles our food traveled to our plates, and make a point only to have toe-curling carnal gymnastics with Prius drivers — so why do we insist on persecuting those entrepreneurial souls trying to provide a local option to area

Get the #Q)*?!#$ Off My Lawn

Rich Goldsmith — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:33:57 -0500
On the well-manicured lawn that is the Democratic primary, there resides a two large groups of little old men shouting epithets at one another, screaming for "these kids" to get the fuck off their lawn.