Meanest story nominee: Barbara Bush's sad last days!

Publication: National Examiner
Date: 26 Sept. 2011

Barbara Bush is added to the tabloid vulture watch list this week because she's missing her granddaughter's wedding. The low rent Examiner is missing the possibility that the elder Mrs. Bush is just a "rhymes with witch" and doesn't like the granddaughter.

Last year, the low rent Examiner said that George H.W. Bush gave his ne'er-do-well son George and ultimatum to fix his marriage before the old man died, so he is also on the tabloid vulture watch list.

Whatever I think of their politics, this is a nominee for Meanest Story of the Week.

Failed prophecy alert:No important diplomatic move by a member of the Bush family

Publication: Sun
Date: 17 May 2010

Everybody's favorite vague French 16th Century prophet and poet Michel de Nostradamus gets a big 0-for-5 hung on him based on the alleged prophecies somebody read into his stuff for the Sun back in May. The last prophecy was that some member of the Bush family was going to do something important diplomatically in November.

It's December 1 and if there was something diplomatic this month, I missed it.

The closest thing to diplomatic I heard was Barbara Bush saying that Sarah Palin is very beautiful and she should stay in Alaska.

You might interpret this as "Shut up, you friggin' bimbo!" and you would probably not be wrong. This is about as diplomatic as the old "rhymes with witch" gets.