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I’m watching Stephen Colbert the other night, and he shows a clip of Sean holier-than-thou Hannitty saying “America has the greatest health care system in the world.” This is followed by clips of other Fox news puppets echoing the sentiment. Yesterday, a conservative guest on “Morning Joe” tried valiantly to hide her apoplexy when Matt Taibbi ( Read more... ) -
I Hate These People More Every Day
The hysterical woman at the town hall meeting shrieks, "I want my country back!" She may as well have added ". . . from the scary black man." It was almost as audible unspoken.
Another woman, another town hall, and this one says she's afraid "we're losing our country."
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Back to politics
The President of the United States recently asked (or demanded) that Israel cease settlement projects in East Jerusalem. Yesterday, President Netenyahu told President Obama to shove it up his ass (www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31994267/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/).
Care to guess whose side patriotic conservatives will take in this dispute?
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The 1 Million Things I Don't Understand About Religion, Part Deux
I’m wondering why god hated the 228 people on board this Air France flight: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31040692/?GT1=43001. Were they all on their way home from a gay pride parade?
I mentioned in my last post that I don’t think I’ll be bringing up anything new here when it comes to the conversation about religion. And this may be the oldest ( Read more... ) -
Atheist or Agnostic, This is the Question
I opened a Facebook account recently. The “About Me” section asked for my religion. Agnostic or atheist, that is the question.
At varying times, Kurt Vonnegut referred to himself using both these terms, in additional to calling himself a humanist, freethinker, skeptic, and probably a few other things. Oh, and he also said (paraphrase) “the ( Read more... ) -
By Any Other Name
What do the following people have in common?
Tom Seaver
Ken Griffey, Sr.
Ken Griffey, Jr.
Sparky Anderson
Babe Ruth
None of them are best known by their given name: George.
I'm sure I had a few others that fit this category (from outside the world of baseball), but I can't seem to remember them now. The only other example I can think of is James T. Kirk ( Read more... ) -
Black and White
Through the course of Obama's run for President, I've heard several of my friends and relatives object to categorizing Obama as the "first black President." "He's bi-racial!" they say. "He's half-white!" they say. I'm surrounded by idiots. To decide whether Obama is black or white, I propose a simple, one-question test.
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The Nightmare is Over and We Can All Wake Up
I must say, I admire all the folks who were able to, after the election was done and won, continue their roles as informed citizens. I decided to go to sleep. After these last eight years, hadn't we all earned a nap? Just a little two-month respite. And so I shut down a part of my brain and slapped on a post-it note that read "Do not wake until ( Read more... ) -
Happy Birthday, Michael Moorcock!
Today is Michael Moorcock's 69th birthday. Yes, only 69 - judging from the length of his bibliography, one might think him closer to 169. I recently did some redecorating in my house, and this was the first time I was able to fit virtually all of my Moorcock hardcovers in the same bookcase:
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