In 1988, the Ayatollah Khomeini put a price on author Salmon Rushdie’s head. Rushdie wasn’t wanted “dead or alive.” Khomeini wanted Rushdie dead. I don’t know what the original price tag was for one dead author, but as of 2013, the price on Rushdie’s head was over 3 million pounds. The Ayatollah is […]
Once upon a time a long long time ago — Three men were talking to God, and God gave each a bag of gold. One man’s bag of gold was kind of small. One man’s bag of gold was medium. One man’s bag of gold was huge. And God said, Hey, go out and […]
Boudreau and Thibodeaux — [And don’t think it is easy typing those names.] Are in a bar pounding Dixie Beers and arguing – as people pounding Dixie Beers do — about who knows more people. Thibodeaux knows every girl who’s ever won the pretty girl festival. Boudreau knows every girl who’s ever […]
Everyone in this country — Wants to tell everyone else what to do. What god to worship, what person to marry, what food to eat, what drugs to take, what to drink, what to smoke, what to wear, what to drive, what gun to own, what books to read, what websites to visit, what […]
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“18,000 US citizens die every year needlessly, because they can’t access the care they require. That’s equivalent to six 9/11s, every year, year on year. Yet the Republicans have accused the Democrats who are trying to stop all this death by extending healthcare of being “killers” – and they have successfully managed to put […]
I have a new follower — On Twitter. Probably to keep an eye on me. I am vocally pro health reform enough it is catching some people’s attention and not all of them are happy with me. This follower falls into the unhappy category. Someone with an entire Twitter page about not passing health […]
I have this student — Who has this protagonist who is a teacher at a Catholic school and also tends bar on the side. In my notes I say, I am not sure a religious school will be okay with an instructor tending bar. My student emails me: Well now I know you are […]
Ooh la la, what will those whacky scientists cure next? Myself, I vote for the psycho-hater gene therapy cure. We could really use one of those. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCzbNkyXO50]
I am not posting today. I want you to read something else instead : Death at the Holocaust Museum and the Degradation of the American Dialogue ~ by Michael Rowe Ann Coulter, the self-described “conservative Christian” right-wing talking head, is much on my mind as I contemplate the horrifying images that came out […]