Month: November 2003

Master satirist Howard Veit has been fisking those evil homos again! (Civility reigns, of course.) I have to say that while the fag remarks aren’t all that original (“dyke clam lappers and fag shit stabbers” I would only rate as “fair”) some of the terms in the Prince Charles post are genuinely rich, even delectable:…

Arthur Silber needs help desperately if he is going to keep blogging. At the rate things are going for him, he’ll soon have his utilities shut off, and he faces eviction. Because of the Los Angeles transit strike, he is unable to get to his job, and the situation is very serious, with no end…

Last night a friend called and told me to run outside because there was a partial lunar eclipse. I ran outside, and sure enough, there was. So I ran inside, grabbed my digital camera (which suffers from a lack of a high power zoom), and snapped this photo: It’s a full moon, by the way…

Here’s another example of the kind of backlash which can occur when religion becomes part of politics: NEW ORLEANS – Gertrude M. Jones didn’t want flowers or cards when she died. She wanted to get rid of President Bush. The 81-year-old woman’s obituary asked that memorial donations be given “to any organization that seeks the…

And for once, I took a test and got a different result than that great Unearther of the Best Tests of All, Ghost of a flea. You are the playful pin-up! Do you know how to beserious? What Type Of Retro Gal Are You? brought to you by Quizilla Do I know how to be…

Has Dick Morris suddenly become a non-person to Republicans? I noticed his absence at the usual places which once carried his column, so I’m just wondering…. Then I happened to catch this. Morris recently advised the Republican Party to “terminate” the Christian right. What fascinated me the most was his contention that religious conservatives have…

Still recovering from an embarrassing moment just a couple of hours ago. I had a little “accident” with my cell phone. It was in the pocket of my blue jeans, which are tight, and somehow, my moving around caused it to automatically redial the last person I called — not once but three times. I…

While I haven’t seen any polls or curves or graphs to prove it, I have noticed that as the country grows more libertarian (that’s the great silent majority, small “l” common-sense variety), the two major political parties grow less libertarian. I think this means that the activists who dominate the two parties are seriously out…

My blogfather Jeff has done it again. This post ought to move any pet owner to tears, whether atheist or not. Many religions claim that our pets don’t go to heaven. What horrible religions they must be. If I die and go to heaven and God or St. Peter says, “no, sorry, but your pets…

This post by Donald Sensing eerily paralleled mine on a similar subject. As fate would have it, both were written at the same time, both were inspired by thinking about du Toit’s pussification post, and as if fate needed no further cementing, both were Instalanched together! Coincidence, no doubt. As I said in a comment…

While I am no theologian, I would like to pose a simple theological question. Is it possible to disagree with Saint Paul and be a Christian? At least one Anglican bishop thinks so: I see no law in St. Paul. I see laws in the Old Testament but most Christians do not pay much attention…

I don’t want to be repeating myself over and over in the comments to my post below, but people are misconstruing what I said (one commenter has accused me and another blogger of being “bigots”). While I wish they would read what I said more carefully, I think a post is better than another comment.…

Wow. Thanks to InstaPundit for the link — and to all who have visited my blog, especially for the first time. It is not my goal to attack or ridicule anyone’s religion here (or their opinions on sexuality); only to address what I see as a stubborn problem. I hope I have provided some food…

Are there Christians who hate Jesus but cannot dare admit it? I have long thought so. My theory is that if you took the teachings of Jesus and put them all in a book (much the way Thomas Jefferson did), many people would not like it. That is because there is a need out there…

Wild cougars are making a comeback, and victims have no say. Feral cat activists are trying to protect domestic cats which have gone wild. A cat fugitive was recently arrested in San Francisco. (I suppose cats are also a feminist issue of some sort.) In the Middle Ages, cats were believed to be immoral and…

I just read Kim du Toit’s post on manhood, and I have to admit to being a tad annoyed. While du Toit makes some good points, the overall tone strikes me as one of bullying and attempted argument by intimidation, and I don’t like being bullied. You know the definition of homosexual men we used…

Here’s a gem via Right Wing News — advice from Andrew Sullivan to bloggers on building an audience: John Hawkins: You’re the biggest standalone political blogger out there so I’m sure you’re qualified to give the rest of us some advice on how to build an audience as large as yours. How ’bout it? Andrew…

After that last post, maybe this should be titled “When the Cat’s away the mice will play!” How I get snookered into taking these online tests I don’t know. (Kuriosity killed the kat.) But how could I resist a test to determine what color cat I am? It does more than that, actually. This test…

Hey, my supposed “research assistant” Justin Case made me put that little thing on the lower left about extending the life of a mouse. I already know how to extend the life of my mouse: you regularly take out the little rubber ball, and clean the rollers with an alcohol-soaked Q-tip! There, Justin! You think…

When I was a kid, I was quite moved by reading John Howard Griffin’s Black Like Me — a true story of a white man who had paid doctors to turn his skin black so he could write about his experiences as a black man in the Jim Crow South. Many questioned the author’s sanity,…