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It's been a while since I've had anything substantial to say, but even the large, flaccid, and inert critters of nature can be provoked to roar and take action, as anyone who's witnessed a hippo attack will agree. And if I am the hippo in this tale, so be it: I will bellow and overturn canoes and send swimmers panicking for the shore as necessary.

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If there's one piece of advice I would give to students, speakers, and writers alike, it's the above. But man, a bunch of people are failing to take it lately.

Consider Rush Limbaugh, who told his audience of millions that a Federal judge who'll be hearing a challenge to the new health care law is a man whom liberals should fear. He's an avid hunter ( Read more... )

I guess it was a little after ten when I heard the knock at the front door. I couldn't figure out who the heck it might be, but I got up from the computer and padded to the front of the house in my usual not-at-work garb, in this case charcoal grey gym shorts and orange t-shirt. The lunkheaded hound dog, who had perked up at the sound of the knock ( Read more... )

^This question, first posed by Alyosha (the monk who wants to be a pop singer) in Christopher Durang's wonderful play The Idiots Karamazov, came to mind over the past week as spuffy and I have been wading through the first six collections of Cable & Deadpool, loaned to us by the lovely and talented likeadeuce .

I've certainly enjoyed watching Fabian Nicieza ( Read more... )

If you were feeling a bit uncomfortable about pastor Rick Warren's involvement in the inauguration, this may cheer you up:

"The Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, who became the Episcopal Church’s first openly gay bishop in 2003 and last year entered into a civil union with his gay partner, will deliver the invocation for Sunday’s kickoff ( Read more... )