Once again, the right Reverend Jeremiah Wright is in the news. On Monday, he addressed the National Press Club over breakfast. The National Press Club (in my recollection) usually gives thirty minutes to a speaker, followed by about twenty minutes of answering questions (submitted on index cards) from the press, which are read by the [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Wright & Wrong; or The Mendacity Of Hope
Posted in Rants, politics, tagged politics, Rants on April 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Ben Stein’s Monkey
Posted in Rants, movies, religion, tagged Ben Stein, Evolution, Intelligent Design, movies, Rants on April 26, 2008 | No Comments »
With the release of “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed”, it’s official: Ben Stein is a dickhead.
I have not seen this movie and have no intention of seeing it. I’ve read a number of reviews and descriptions and so I feel reasonably certain that I have a sufficient understanding of the matter to make [...]
A Fine Day For Fast Women
Posted in Rants, tagged Danica Patrick, racing on April 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Well, Danica Patrick has finally scored a big win, taking first place in the Japan Indy 500. Or whatever it’s called. I know it involves expensive cars and going around in circles, but that also describes Hollywood. In any case, the esteemed Ms. Patrick is known far and wide as a hottie as well as [...]
lolheston
Posted in Rants, tagged Charlton Heston, Rants on April 20, 2008 | No Comments »
cold dead fingers
Originally uploaded by Pile Of Laundry
As Jens noted, now is the time for a video of someone prying Charlton Heston’s gun from his cold, dead fingers. Sadly, I do not have that video. Here is my feeble attempt to see justice served.
Statue of Limitations
Posted in taxes, tagged taxes on April 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Well, we are past the deadline for filing your income taxes. Finally. The friendly governmental reminders of my poverty are unpleasant enough, but I was really tired of seeing the Statue of Liberty standing around on streetcorners. Outside every low-rent tax preparation firm in town, some poor idiot would be standing around in a [...]
The Flame Shame Game
Posted in Olympics, tagged Olympics on April 9, 2008 | No Comments »
I was hearing today about the Olympic Torch’s abbreviated tour of San Francisco today. After the repeated problems that the Torch procession faced in Paris, the Mayor of San Francisco had the route altered so as to avoid the protestors and demonstrations.
This is possibly the first instance of a parade taking evasive [...]
Charleton Heston Is Dead
Posted in Rants, tagged rant on April 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
. . . and I feel fine. After an iconic acting career, Heston became an iconic activist for all sorts of right-wing causes. Want to arm children with automatic weapons loaded with teflon-coated cop-killer bullets? Call Charleton Heston! Think that disagreeing with a Republican president is traitorous and unpatriotic? Heston’s the man to agree with [...]
CAVEAT
Posted in blogging, tagged blogging on April 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Honestly, I’m not much of a blogger. You may have guessed that by now. To make up for that, I’ll be adding one or two of my old letters/essays (backdated, of course) every time I post a new blog entry. That way I’ll bulk up the amount of posted material, but without actually having to [...]
