Thursday, September 28, 2006
"Now it's time to say goodby ...
... to all our company. R-A-R (Are we having fun yet?) M-C-W (Will we continue to wage our campaign as Shock Troopers in the Service of Evolution?) A@AOL LLLLLL." My Household Goddess says I'm spending too much time playing with you guys, so I'm outta here. I'll be shutting down my blogit account at...
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Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Godzilla, global warning and the confederacy of the easily-freaked
Last year, a couple of features on NPR celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first Godzilla movie. Godzilla was just one of a number of movie monsters created by, wakened by or energized by atomic energy, usually in the form of an explosive device. There’s a significant cultural coefficient factor...
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Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Graven Images and Judge Roy Moore - 2004 opinion column
Dear Friends: Here's another Golden Goodie from my salad days on Blogit. Enjoy. Judge Roy Moore of Alabama (where else?) knew he was going to lose in his battle to keep on display, in a taxpayer-supported building, his ugly little graven image of some artist's impression of what the 10 Commandments...
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Monday, September 25, 2006
Open letter to Bill from a non-Clinton basher
Dear Sir: I belatedly caught your Fox news interview from Sunday, and wonder about a few things. First, I believe you debated on teams while in school. To the best of my knowledge, the ad hominem attack on the character, motives or intelligence of one's debating partner ("You're doing their...
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The blood curse of the Passion: anti-Semitism or anti-dogmatism?
Dear friends, here's a chestnut I authored the last time Mel Gibson made news for his views on God's Chosen. I think it holds up well. I haven't yet seen Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, and won't until I can rent it and watch it at home. I'm not a fan of extra-bloody movies, and from the...
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Sunday, September 24, 2006
Lobbyists vs.Wahhabists
The demonization of lobbyists in American politics reminds the freethinker - who bothers to do a little research - of nothing so much as the demonization of other faiths and sects of Islam by nutcase Wahhabists. Our good friend Wikipedia defines this violent and intolerant division of a perfectly...
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Saturday, September 23, 2006
Lawyers, Gang-Bangers and My Household Goddess
Dear Friends: Since I got such a rolicking response to my last comical posting, I shall reprise yet another Blast From The Past, posted in those long-ago days when I was new to Blogit and most people had enough sense to steer clear of The Noisy Voice of Reason with an alacrity suggestive of Carl...
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Friday, September 22, 2006
Rerun City: An early post most of you never saw
Here's one on contemporary culture. Consider it a gift of supreme silliness. Mom, Dad, North, South and the folk poetry of archaic slang Living south of the Mason-Dixon Line is a sweet if unsettling experience for this Midwestern boy on his own. One would have to conjecture at least part of the...
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Thursday, September 21, 2006
Fighting demons; the twisted role of the political shaman
One of the silliest uses of election rhetoric is the oft-repeated promise that candidates, if elected, will "fight" for us. Elected officials who spend all their time fighting are not what I want. What I want from my leaders is competent governance. Unfortunately, it's not particularly exciting to...
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Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Treadwell, Stalin, Chapman and Osama
If you want to see the real face of unreasoning fanaticism in the service of a just cause, you should rent a copy of the Werner Herzog documentary "Grizzly Man." The flick consists of the edited and narrated (by Herzog himself) video tapes of Timothy Treadwell's many visits to Alaska where he lived...
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Sunday, September 17, 2006
Is politics broken? I think not.
Altogether too many people seem to accept the conventional wisdom that today "politics is broken in America." There was a recent PBS special on that very subject, with most of the panel defending the affirmative - but the record shows otherwise. For specific instance; during the Adams...
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Saturday, September 16, 2006
Cats, pianos and the Y2K scare
There's an old, sick joke I read in an old, sick joke book. It goes; Man: "I took my piano upstairs to the attic yesterday." Other Man: "Boy that must have been a job." M.: "Nah. Had my cat drag it up there for me." O.M.: "How did you get a six-pound cat to drag an 800 pound piano up the attic...
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Friday, September 15, 2006
"No self-respecting scholar would want to teach such a course."
In case you're wondering why so many supposedly educated college grads seem to know zip, here's a clue or two. Grade inflation, academic self-respect and tenured True Believers About this time each year, some members of the chattering classes ask the question, "Why should anybody care about the...
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Thursday, September 14, 2006
Social Justice
History shows us that the concept of social justice is headed for the same ash-heap of history where currently reside (leaking florocarbons, no doubt) Socialism and Communism. Here's why. Progressive Socialism and other fairy tales If you want to read some really good writing and get your heart...
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Monday, September 11, 2006
A bit of historical perspective on 9/11/2006
Dear Friends: Here's something I wrote as we approached the third anniversary of 9/11. I think it might add a small bit of historical perspective to the hyperventilating pundits who wish to make us think the world is more violent than ever. Love, Rarmcwa The End of War? From what one sees and hears...
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Sunday, September 3, 2006
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