GorT has shared a number of tips before…no they weren’t titled as such, but the lessons are in the posts, you just have to do the reading. Tip #451: Your best opportunity for happiness (and therefore success, in my opinion) … Continue reading →
Sigh. GorT has been trying to ignore the Facebook deluge that those opposed to the recent SCOTUS ruling a/k/a the “Hobby Lobby case” are causing. Most recently, GorT came across this post referenced in his timeline by a friend of … Continue reading →
While we’re on the kick of pointing out the lies that the Obama Administration has foisted upon the country, how about this one: Now pop over to this great piece on Forbes.com where they cite an analysis of 3,137 of … Continue reading →
Today’s New York Times calls conservatives “stupid, poopy-headed America haters”* for daring to challenge the procedures under which a Democrat Congress crammed Obamacare down America’s food hole. The editors are exercised because conservatives dare to claim: (1) Congress enacted Obamacare … Continue reading →
This morning, GorT heard an interesting question regarding the new HHS Secretary’s nomination: Should the GOP put up a fight in her nomination hearings? My personal take on it would be a conditional yes. Conditional in that, there should be … Continue reading →
Over at National Review Online, also known as the other, albeit Flash and pop-up ad laden, intersection of Popery and Conservatism on the internet is a forum on two very important cases being argued before the Supreme Court today. Specifically, Sebelius, Sec. … Continue reading →
This is about how qualified I am for the job. Dr. J.’s lefty Facebook friends have been going apoplectic regarding the fact that anyone would have objections to President Obama’s moderate, even-tempered and exceptionally qualified, albeit young Surgeon General nominee, … Continue reading →
Except for the Black kid, every one of the people in this picture is to blame for Obamacare’s abject failure to deliver anything it promised. Actually, being liberal means never having to acknowledge your policies have tradeoffs. At least until … Continue reading →
Operative BJ writes in with alarming news: Hey, you in the chair! Operative BJ is happy to have you and you and you pay for him to enjoy his 8-week tanning treatment through your tax dollars. And no, Operative BJ … Continue reading →
Hey, in case you missed it because the media cannot comprehend the impact of it, Obamacare died Monday afternoon. Basically, this is true. Before you get overwhelmed with optimism and put on your Ronald Reagan straw hats and fire up … Continue reading →
Island Dweller presents with an exchange between him and his Esteemed Associate: Your esteemed majesty: Your minion here on the Island express-shipped Lobot-Ami back to EA in a heated crate to avoid our feathered friend becoming frostbitten, or hitching a … Continue reading →
Is there anything liberals care about more than “women’s health,” meaning “not having babies, by any means necessary?” If there is, ‘Puter hasn’t found it yet. This singular focus on abortion and birth control can be seen in this nonsensical … Continue reading →
Perhaps you heard that over 2 million people have participated in Obamacare since October. This has been a major story on many Obama-friendly news outlets, as they celebrate how wrong conservatives were to celebrate the broken website issue in October. … Continue reading →
CBS News took a look at their polling numbers for President Obama over the last 12 months and concluded things aren’t going well for him. It could be worse than even this. Of interest is their conclusion that three things … Continue reading →
Click to make bigger. The Czar of MuscovyБожію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in 1267, and was cheated out of total control of all Russia … Continue reading →
Click to make larger. The Czar of MuscovyБожію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in 1267, and was cheated out of total control of all Russia … Continue reading →
Click to make bigger, or perish. The Czar of MuscovyБожію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in 1267, and was cheated out of total control of … Continue reading →
Big-time ad exec (and Obama supporter, evidently) Jeff Goodby—whose work you know well—is not a fan of the Pajama Boy ad campaign which you see being spoofed here as well as everywhere else. No, it isn’t because the ad parodies … Continue reading →
Click to make bigger. As if you need to make an eight-foot-tall robot bigger. The Czar of MuscovyБожію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in 1267, … Continue reading →
Sexy Actuary is going to be the hot Halloween Costume in 2014. Girls with glasses, meow! Well, Ed Henry, F. Chuck Todd, Major Lt. Col. Garrett and the rest of the White House press corps (not corpses) can stop asking … Continue reading →
Click to enlarge, of course. The Czar of MuscovyБожію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in 1267, and was cheated out of total control of all … Continue reading →
Meet Billy.* Billy is the poster boy for Organizing for Action latest fuck-up-the-holidays-with-political-conversation-that-is-not-welcome-at-the-dinner-table. This risible ad campaign is encouraging its email list to talk up the great success that is Obamacare and the Healthcare.gov website. Has the president signed up, … Continue reading →
This landed smack dab in the middle of Dr. J.’s Facebook feed this morning from none other than Dr. Benjamin Carson: It is going to be increasingly difficult to attract outstanding students to pursuing careers in the medical field. This … Continue reading →
The bad news is that Obamacare negatively affects you, our gentle reader. The good news is that Julia is equally bad off. Remember Julia? We lampooned her here a while back. Someone from the Independent Women’s Voice organization came up … Continue reading →
As with Loki, the smile only takes the Lil Medstudent so far at school and nowhere with the family. Dr. J.’s busy with being on the consultation service in the hospital this week and last, and dealing with the Lil … Continue reading →
JAB, who deep fries even the turkey stuffing, writes in on Thanksgiving: Your Czarness: With Organizing for America sending out talking points for how to promote Obamacare at the family Thanksgiving table, I propose a competition: For every OFA point-spouting … Continue reading →
All right, the Czar will explain the liberal mindset yet again, but this time we will explain what the deal is with Obamacare. Even though polls are showing liberals are dumping on Obamacare (a recent poll showed only 12% of … Continue reading →
Your Mandarin is very concerned about the possibility of a zombie apocalypse. Not because this is a piece of popular culture but more due to the fact that something may or may not have gone wrong in the lab the … Continue reading →
The following essay is a guest post from Island Dweller because it seems the Czar doesn’t post anything of his own lately. But this great news, because we remind our readers that you are welcome to submit your thoughts either … Continue reading →
Gentle Readers, Dr. J.’s been horrifically busy of late, so he hasn’t been able to write much of substance and you’ve had to suffer the slings and arrows of My Little Pony jokes and puppy pictures, and not much Gormotastic … Continue reading →
Your Inscrutable Mandarin is most busy these days, and has had little time to post. You are probably wondering what has been so demanding of his time. Here is a hint: The MandarinThe Mandarin, whose real name is 吏恆, joined … Continue reading →
The following essay is a guest post from Island Dweller. We remind our readers that you are welcome to submit your thoughts either as an email or as a complete essay. A certain well-known radio talk show host this afternoon … Continue reading →
Island Dweller brings charm, not just wit: Y’Maj, Thinks have been rather grey and wet here on Shangri-La of late. After placing some rocks beneath an A/C drain outside the house yesterday and performing some forestry functions with the Czarina, … Continue reading →
Courtesy of intrepid Dougie P Fresh: Maybe there are only about 106,000 people that don’t care about their personal privacy information… For those not in the know…that drop down is showing the most frequent search terms and it clearly shows … Continue reading →
No, ‘Puter, I didn’t title this, “What does the fox say?” As part of the signup process on Healthcare.gov, users are presented with a Terms & Conditions page that they have to click accept. We’ve all seen these before, whether … Continue reading →
A few months ago when the Benghazi, IRS, and the Fast & Furious issues were front and center and prior to the whole PP-ACA (a/k/a Obamacare) rollout debacle, the democrats – particularly President Obama and his mouthpiece, Jay Carney, were … Continue reading →
Our guest writer today is no less a celebrity than JAB, who writes to you from the Doublewide. “’The gentle but powerful influence of laws and manners had gradually cemented the union of the provinces. Their peaceful inhabitants enjoyed and … Continue reading →
The Czar loves getting mail. But the truth is this: the worse things get out there, the more mail he receives. And we are sad to confess, as you have noticed, the Czar has been getting a lot of mail … Continue reading →
Man, it’s been a sucky year or two, Charlie Brown. The retail sector has no shame. They have been pushing their Christmas decorating earlier and earlier every year. Indeed, the Charlie Brown Easter special back in 1974 was hip to the … Continue reading →
So after about 45 days, something less than 50,000 people have actually signed up for Obamacare. Wasn’t it supposed to be 30 million? And then 300 million? Oh, and it turns out this number may include people who simply went … Continue reading →
Inevitably, future historians will write detailed biographies of President Barack Obama as they have done for all the presidents. God willing, President Obama will enjoy a long, happy retirement with his family and take the time to read some of … Continue reading →
Pictured, Secretary of State John Kerry (who looks like a horse) in full fox hunting regaliabeats a dead horse whilst taking the air at hissummer cottage on Nantucket. Not to beat a dead horse, but ‘Puter’s got to keep his … Continue reading →
* Gentle Readers, Dr. J.’s been hideously busy at work lately, so your daily dose of pop-culture whimsy, biomedical news, educational theory, economic policy, tales of the Lil Resident and Lil Medstudent, and pictures of Lady J. have been sporadic, … Continue reading →
Hypnotoad would be a more effective president than Obama President Obama addressed the nation last night on ObamaCare. Well, Obama didn’t so much “address the nation” as summon NBC’s Chuck Todd to the White House to consult Obama, the Left’s … Continue reading →
Our able accountant SW—who is so good most of us retired on 401(l) accounts—has a chilling thought about Obamacare and illegal immigration: Just a thought. I read that many large companies are all in for amnesty for illegal aliens. I … Continue reading →
GorT promised that he’ll continue to beat this drum and it’s worth pointing out again now: Where is our Federal Budget? Why don’t we have one? Where are all the negotiations that Obama and the democrats promised? The whole PP-ACA … Continue reading →
Mika is so depressed over ObaamCare’s inexcusably inept roll out, she attempted to burn down the set of Morning Joe early Monday morning, screaming, “If I can’t believe in Obama (PBUH) any more, I don’t want to live, and you’re all … Continue reading →
Island Dweller writes (and so should you!): O most dread, awful, omnipotent, omniscent, etc etc . . . Mother Jones magazine recently published the results of a public opinion poll conducted in part by James Carville. The results of the … Continue reading →
Sundays are great when other people do our writing for us. Keep the letters inbound, folks! The Czar might have this up even sooner, but he prefers a Windows operating system and lately it takes forever for this thing to … Continue reading →
Operative BG writes in with the following: Never mind the insurmountable ten dollar cost of getting a ride to the library to apply for Obamacare; we’re going to have tons of fun when people try to actually apply. I worked … Continue reading →
Merlin tweets: @Gormogons Rx – Thoughts? http://t.co/XjAZ4spZ9v— Merlin (@NKYAggie) October 30, 2013 Specifically, the great wizard is curious about Dr. J.’s thoughts regarding his latest post on Obamacare and insurance premiums. Mr. Merlin’s post is spot on. Premiums are more … Continue reading →
America is now a nation full of people willing to be the 36 year old “kid” living in their parents’ basement, eating their food and paying for nothing.* Sure, Healthcare.gov blows chunks. And sure, anyone with a brain in their … Continue reading →
GorT is on a business trip to New York City but after reading the USA Today McNews that I get each day at my hotel room door and some of the left-leaning tripe that came out in a discussion session … Continue reading →
David Axelrod, who continues to advise President Obama on campaign strategy—that in itself should be a subject of concern for all Americans—incredibly doubled down on the most unkept promise in recent history: “If you like you current healthcare plan, you … Continue reading →
‘Free’ is more expensive than out of pocket. Dr. J. apologizes for using the same trope in back to back posts, but it really fits today’s post. Kirsten Powers, the pro-life Democrat political commentator was on Megan Kelly’s show this last … Continue reading →
Operative BG, a.k.a. The Official Copy Editor of the Gormogons™ writes in response to today’s post by Dr. J.: Dear Dr. J. Never ascribe to malice that which can be easily explained by stupidity. Attempting to take over the nation’s … Continue reading →
Meesa hand ovah the keys to the Republic for free healthcare for Gungans, okieday? Gentle Readers, In all of the headlines about the miserable failure that is the Healthcare.gov website, no one is asking this simple question:Why do people have … Continue reading →
America’s welfare state rewards self-centered freeloaders like Margo Smith, and ObamaCare will only exacerbate America’s free rider problem. Meet Margo Smith. Ms. Smith is a sixty-five year old grandmother. Ms. Smith is also a lazy, greedy, unrepentant self-entitled freeloader. “Gee, ‘Puter, … Continue reading →
So far, the good news about Obamacare is that very few people can actually get it. Yesterday, millions of people watched (or re-watched) The Daily Show’s brutal attack on both Obamacare and to a lesser extent the President himself. Indeed, … Continue reading →
You might like Jon Stewart. You might not. Indeed, you might loathe him. But his Daily Show put together the most horrific, scathing takedown of Obamacare and its dysfunctional Healthcare.gov yet done—horrific because it is all true. Given Stewart’s influence … Continue reading →
A week or so ago, GorT came across this video in some of his research and reading. I’ve read one of Dave Ramsey’s books and I had mixed opinions: I think that his opinions and recommendations are solid but at … Continue reading →
AFGE Local 90210’s Finest… Operative RKB writes: Dear Dr. J., I did not realize you acted so openly… Either that or Puter’s been sleep walking again. Best, Operative RKB Dear RKB, That one wasn’t ours…the same folk who put together … Continue reading →
Mark Spahn of West Seneca, NY, is one of our favorite correspondents. It is important to know that this is a cover, because he is technically closer to Lackawanna than he is to the geospatial center of West Seneca. Just … Continue reading →
Barney the Purple Dinosaur, a survivor of a frontal lobotomy and unrelated massive head trauma, can spot the logical flaws in Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman’s blog post. Can you, boys and girls? Intrepid New York Times opinion columnist and self-proclaimed smartest … Continue reading →
More polling news today, and the situation is even worse for media reporting. Breitbart.com perfectly sums up the media critique, so check it out. Bottom line is that Obama’s approval rating is now at 37%. The GOP and Democrats, people … Continue reading →
Don’ters line up at the front door of America’s very last Doer, looking for all that free crap Uncle Sugar and President Obama promised them. Don’ters are about to be extremely disappointed. Liberal politicians who’ve preyed on Don’ters fantasies for generations … Continue reading →
Dr. J. has a million balls in the air, and consequently will be out through Wednesday, so any wit, wisdom and ponyisms will have to wait. Until then remember: Obamacare still sucks A government shutdown is not a bad thing … Continue reading →
Senator Alexander, Lady Gaga wants you to vote NO on cloture on the Reid-addled CR Bill. Our friends on the airwaves, and in the blogosphere are encouraging you to call your Republican and ‘Red-State’ Democrat senators to encourage them not … Continue reading →
In 10th Grade, Dr. J. was tapped for Team Jack by his peers. We still live in the greatest country on Earth. That being said, the progressive movement has for a century believed that they are smarter than the rest … Continue reading →
If anyone’s got a herpetic monkey wang, it’s the drummer for Lancelot Link and the Evolution Revolution. Good luck with getting your “little problem” treated under ObamaCare, Mr. Drummer! Eugene Robinson, an ever-reliable Obama sycophant, parrots the White House’s ObamaCare talking points in … Continue reading →
Many minions write to the Czar in an overtly supplicating tone, apparently terrified that the Czar will unleash some horrific punishment onto them. Ridiculous! The Czar encourages and welcomes all manners of correspondence with his minions, for he truly respects … Continue reading →
Against quite long odds, the House GOP has decided to stick it to the Obama administration and will fund a continuing resolution minus the required Obamacare portion. This, despite condemnation from the President and Senate, as well as a great … Continue reading →
Republicans are pretty annoyed with each other over the Obamacare funding deadline. Many Republicans want to defund Obamacare by passing a continuing resolution that funds everything budgeted for the government except Obamacare. The problem is that while this will pass … Continue reading →
It wasn’t long before Dr. J. received a missive from none other than Operative RBK who returned from the other side of the mirror where he was on R&R from all things operative. He writes in regarding Dr. J.’s recent anti-Krugman … Continue reading →
Get thee to Vermont! …but your wife or domestic life partner can’t. In two separate news articles, employees of the University of Virginia and the United Parcel Service hear the ‘other shoe dropping’ as their 2014 benefits have been announced. … Continue reading →
Forever Uninsured… Even more Obamacare chickens came home to roost today! Forever 21, a young women’s clothing store dear to the hearts of legions of millennials and Gen-Xers-in-denial is moving non-management workers to 29.5 hours/week. Why is this? Probably because … Continue reading →
Mrs. Volgi modeling the Volgimobile Dr. J. was delinquent with regard to this missive from the great ScottO, who you better be following on twitter @gscottoliver. He writes regarding Dr. J.’s recent rant on Obamacare: Most Excellent Doctor, At the … Continue reading →
As you know by now, Obamacare is not just failing, it is basically collapsing in on itselfand most of the law has not even been implemented yet. The Czar used to hold town hall meetings in his day. Guess how we … Continue reading →
Some marriages are more equal than others… A number of workplaces across the nation including many ivory towers of enlightened thinking have, in the last several years, extended employee benefits to same sex partners. It was surmised that it since … Continue reading →
Dr. J.’d rather see Obamacare upside-down than the economy upside-down… Gentle Readers, If you needed more proof that Obamacare is the Albatross™ brand millstone around the neck of the US economy, one needs only look to the most recent jobs … Continue reading →
Island Dweller carefully wrote this onto a stick of gum, chewed it to get it past security, and placed this on a Castle window for us to find and reconstruct. Unless we are wrong in how we deciphered the squiggles … Continue reading →
So Island Dweller is a bit hot under the collar. And why not? Your immenseness The news just keeps rolling in, providing more information that should be dissected – and disseminated – via your site. I humbly refer to a … Continue reading →
Gentle Readers, Your Gormogons have, since its inception, pilloried against the healthcare timebomb affectionately known as Obamacare. Dr. J. refuses to call it by its Orwellian title, the Affordable Care Act because it is neither affordable, nor caring for the … Continue reading →
Conservative twitter great, future senator from the great state of South Carolina, and Friend of the Gormogons Bruce Carroll, aka @GayPatriot posted this on his twitter feed: Just when you thought it was safe to go the doctor… #ObamaCareNado: http://t.co/uxEY5HIdYQ— … Continue reading →
Anytime Rep. Roskam (R-IL) wants to send in a guest post, GorT will be happy to share it. Consider this clip from the representative (courtesy of NRO’s Corner) and one could think of it as a brilliant audition tape: mocking, … Continue reading →
Probably the most surprising news on ObamaCare in years happened yesterday with very little fanfare: the White House has realized and tacitly admitted the whole thing is a freaking travesty. In the unlikely event you missed it—despite its near-total absence … Continue reading →
Gentle Readers: One could misconstrue The Czar’s posting of the magnificent Operative BG’s transmission as him running his own version of PRISM on your other Gormogons, but the reality is that BG’s communication, like many receive is an open letter … Continue reading →
Long, long-time Operative BG sends this in by home-made satellite transceiver: I keep hearing radio this commercial extolling how tough comprehensive immigration reform will be, telling me I should support it because Marco Rubio and Paul Ryan support it. Big … Continue reading →
And another from Island Dweller worth your time: Your most imperial highness, “Politico,” June 13 2013, reports members of both houses of Congress and their staffers are beginning to leave Capitol Hill en masse as their govt-subsidized health plans will … Continue reading →
Socialized medicine? The Doctor says, “RUN!” Today, Dr. J. is copying in whole-cloth a post from the now defunct Ideal Medical Practices blog. Written by Megan Lewis, M.D., in February of 2009, this piece flew onto Dr. J.’s radar this week. … Continue reading →
Dr. J. saw this over at IMAO. They poached it from the original source, Hope n’ Change Cartoons.* Don’t have too many Harvey Wallbangers at the Leaping Peacock… By the way, Dr. J. learned how to do transplant-grade nephrectomies back … Continue reading →
A girl’s got to make a living… If you recall, Dr. J. discussed with frustration that there isn’t a good alternative to the ER if a patient needs to get tanked up with IV fluids due to a GI bug. … Continue reading →
An interesting quote from millimeter-deep thinker Ezra Klein: The gun vote failed because of the way the Senate is designed. It failed because the Senate wildly overrepresents [sic] small, rural states and, on top of that, requires a 60-vote supermajority … Continue reading →
The Emergency Room, we’re not just for emergencies anymore… Dr. J. got sleepy when he was typing his last post, so he forgot about getting to his point which was that medicine evolved to the point where the regulations and … Continue reading →
Gentle Readers, Mrs. Dr. J. was battling a GI bug for the better part of last week. By Thursday she was so rundown, and felt sufficiently weak that after discussing her symptoms with her PCP by phone, it was decided … Continue reading →
Conservatives, by and large, seem to be having all sorts of moments of clarity lately. You know—maybe we need to be a little more honest about things. Likewise, it is probably time for liberals to do the same thing. Here … Continue reading →
By now, even Tibetans who live in caves and eat rope for a living have heard that Obamacare is an utter disaster. And that isn’t just the folks who can correctly add two numbers together and digest more than website … Continue reading →
Dr. J.’s office is the arched window on the left… New Atlantis Ivory Tower Medical Center, like many academic medical centers across the nation is tightening its belt and doing everything possible to reduce overhead as it delivers world-class medical … Continue reading →
