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Let’s Stop Apologizing for Music Torture at Gitmo

DOUBLE STANDARD? When John Cusack bombards his girlfriend's home with music, it's cute. When the CIA uses a boombox, it's torture. So, a pretentious group of musicians is upset that their music is being used to torment America’s most dangerous enemies? ...

From DARREN GARNICK, DonklePhant,  28 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Central Intelligence Agency,  Manuel Noriega,  Billy Joel,  John Cusack,  The Pentagon

This casino entertainment will knock you DEAD

Bored with the slots? Check out the latest entertainment offering at my local gambling hole, the Foxwoods Resort Casino. Maybe I was brainwashed with all the God talk and respect-for-life babble in Hebrew School. But dipping human flesh in plastic and ...

From DARREN GARNICK, DonklePhant,  1 Jun 2009

Egyptians to Israel: 30 years without bloodshed is SO overrated!

One of my biggest regrets during my post-college backpacking jaunt through Cairo was that the October 1973 War Panorama Museum was closed. Like a kid stretching his neck over the fence at a shut-down amusement park, I stared through the iron grates at ...

From DARREN GARNICK, DonklePhant,  10 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Hosni Mubarak,  New York Times Company,  AARP,  Wikipedia

Self-Respect Watch: Congressman admits feeling like a “freshman at the senior prom”

Did Stevie Wonder feel like a freshman at the senior prom? (AP photo) Barack Obama is now turning Wednesdays into his own upscale version of Chamber of Commerce/Rotary Club mixers, serving up cocktails, Maryland crab, Wagyu beef, Nantucket scallops and ...

From DARREN GARNICK, DonklePhant,  6 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Mike Honda,  White House,  Stevie Wonder,  Trent Franks

If only Abraham Lincoln were alive to enjoy his 200th birthday…

Whichever one of the Ten Commandments tells us not to bow down to idols, that’s the one we’ve been breaking with all the Abraham Lincoln worship lately. There’s no way he was even half as popular amongst Northerners back in the 1860s (I still bump into ...

From DARREN GARNICK, DonklePhant,  8 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Abraham Lincoln,  John Wilkes

Does the Bernie Madoff doll (or action figure) trivialize his scam victims?

Would your answer be influenced if you knew it was a limited edition action figure? But as brash toymaker Emil Vicale tells the Boston Herald, not everyone wants real-world evil (corrupt CEOs like Lex Luthor are fine) represented in the ...

From DARREN GARNICK, DonklePhant,  28 Jan 2009

How is a Mideast ceasefire like Manny Ramirez contract negotiations?

"Manny is being Manny" and the "Mideast is just being the Mideast." Really the only way to guarantee a ceasefire is to wait until your enemy runs out of bullets. So it’s baffling what the nutcake negotiators from Israel and Hamas are trying to achieve ...

From DARREN GARNICK, DonklePhant,  27 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Hamas,  Boston Red Sox,  Ehud Barak,  Vladimir Putin

Classy thank you notes versus ungrateful Gitmo ingrates

New Red Sox outfielder Rocco Baldelli, who left the Tampa Bay Devil Rays as a free agent after battling chronic injuries, just took out a newspaper ad in the St. Petersburg Times thanking the fans for their warmth and support. Regardless of whether his ...

From DARREN GARNICK, DonklePhant,  22 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Rocco Baldelli,  Tampa Bay Devil Rays,  Barack Obama,  White House,  Fidel Castro

Archie Bunker, Mr. Clean, and more of history's greatest fictional presidential candidates.

Thanks to his son Morty, Paulsen is running for president this year from the grave. Franken and humorist Dave Barry have also gotten significant book-tour mileage in the past by declaring themselves Oval Office hopefuls. Beyond leveraging a fake ...

From DARREN GARNICK, Slate,  3 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Dave Barry,  Sarah Palin,  White House

Customer Service in the Face of the Millennial Generation

Three agonizing minutes. That's how long I stood at a Dunkin' Donuts cash register the other night waiting for an employee to make eye contact with me. This is not an exaggeration. I timed Tim with my cell phone clock, absolutely fascinated that he was ...

From DARREN GARNICK, CRM Buyer,  19 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Facebook Inc.

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