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About Fierce Bob
Fierce Bob is a sensitive, yet manly man who lives in Los Angeles. He has spent the past several decades honing his writing skills and natural perceptivity, while acquiring a modicum of wisdom. You may judge for yourself how successful he has been.
Category Archives: Don’t Start With Me
Overkill? I think not
I read a news item last week about a psychiatrist who was testifying in the trial of Anna Nicole Smith’s doctor. The shrink said that the medications that had been prescribed for her were “overkill” for the kind of pain … Continue reading
The Next iPhone?
Due to a temporal misalignment in my Interweb/video system, I caught the following transmission, which is, evidently, from the future. Steve Jobs announces a product so terrifyingly new and mind bogglingly great that we have to tell you about it … Continue reading
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Sarah Palin Gets a Real Job (Almost)
To nobody’s surprise, Fox News announced this week that it is hiring the irrepressibly perky Sarah “Quitter” Palin as a political commentator. Evidently, they don’t feel that Glenn Beck’s show is enough to meet their audience’s need for sheer goofball … Continue reading
Healthcare – Beyond the Debate
Well, Friends, it looks like I’m about to get more first-hand experience with the US healthcare system. I had a PET/CT scan yesterday, as a followup to one I had a few months ago, and this one revealed that the … Continue reading
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I’d Rather Be Waterboarding
Amazingly, the controversy continues to rage over whether the Obama administration is manly enough to deal with terrorists, given the President’s decision to abide by multiple international agreements our nation signed onto decades ago, and the bounds of common humanity. … Continue reading
Say It Isn’t So!
By now, I’m sure almost nobody has missed the video of Susan Boyle appearing on Britain’s got talent. This frumpy, impossibly ancient woman (47! who knew humans could live that long?), who looks as though she’s having a bad hair … Continue reading
News Flash
I probably shouldn’t tell you this, since by announcing the news here I will be preempting President Obama. But I’m too excited to keep it to myself. I, Fierce Bob, am going to be appointed Treasury Secretary later today. The … Continue reading
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CT of the D – 3/29/2009
Today’s cheery thought of the day is one that is emblazoned on one of the fine T-Shirts available from my store. It occurred to me one day back in the nineties, when I was speaking to a person who had … Continue reading
Michael Steele’s Iron Backbone is MIA
Last weekend, after fatuous gasbag Rush Limbaugh wowed the crowed at CPAC (the Conservative Political Action Conference), Michael Steele, the newly elected RNC chairman appeared on the D.L. Hughley Show on CNN. Appearing, as always, to be an intelligent, reasonable man, he bridled when Hughley referred to Limbaugh as “the de facto leader of the Republican Party.” Steele asserted that he, himself was the defacto leader of the party. (Technically, he’s the actual leader, not just the de facto leader. But maybe he never studied latin.) Continue reading
Comment This
I’m beginning to wonder why virtually every site on the web has to have a comments or feedback function. Democracy and listening to the vox populi is all well and good, but let’s face it. Most of the people posting … Continue reading →