The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    HALLELUJAH FOR TORTURE! Study shows white Evangelicals have largest thirst for blood

    By crazedandconfused on Sat, 05/02/2009 - 3:30am |

    Today is the day that Christians finally removed their masks and revealed their true colors.  We're all familiar with the masks.  Whether it is the nice old lady who helps out with organizing the weekly bulliten, the young couple who host small groups at their home, the CEO of a company who is vocal about his faith, and a million other disguises.

     

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    Caesar and the Pirates: The Ship Jonus Bee

    By Richard Day on Fri, 05/01/2009 - 5:39pm |
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    A Neo-con story - It's got excitement, intrigue, and John Boener licking the rendered fat of Jerry Falwell from Pat Robertson's nipples

    By crazedandconfused on Thu, 04/30/2009 - 10:40pm |

    THE FOLLOWING IS A SHORT STORY ABOUT THE REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP AND MY OPINION OF THEM.  BECAUSE IT'S A BIT LONG - AND EXTREMELY GRAPHIC.  PICTURE JAMES DOBSON, A SHEEP, AND A MIDGET WEARING AN APOCALYPTIC GAS MASK.  YOU WILL LAUGH, YOU WILL CRY, YOU MAY WANT TO TAKE A SHOWER.  I'LL GIVE YOU A QUICK LOOK AS TO THE FUN YOU CAN EXPECT IF YOU READ ON -

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    Arthur of the Roundish Table: The Miracle of the Pail

    By Richard Day on Thu, 04/30/2009 - 7:25pm |
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    Torture Faux News Style (100 days of Obama Bashing)

    By stillidealistic on Thu, 04/30/2009 - 3:25pm |
    We've been debating in great detail what is and isn't torture, did we torture, who authorized it, how harmful is it, etc., etc.Well, come to find out all the torture did not occur on foreign soil. Those of us who...
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    Whup-ass: a question

    By acanuck on Wed, 04/29/2009 - 6:45pm |

    Something's been bugging me lately. It's this:

    Why does whup-ass only come in those huge cans? I understand that's it's more economical, but it's also really wasteful. And probably leaves a big carbon footprint. Why hasn't somebody come up with the idea of selling mini-portions? Or at least quart-size containers?

    But no. If you listen to the ads, you're encouraged every damn time to open up a brand-new huge can of whup-ass. Like you, the back of my fridge is stuffed with jars of the leftover stuff. It's not like it ever goes bad, right?

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    Vegetarians Exposed: Anti-Jesus, Anti-American, Bestiality Crazed & Building Momentum. (Proof of Deviancy Far Deeper than Meatlessness!)

    By kalakitty17 on Wed, 04/29/2009 - 6:28pm |

    We have all seen them.  Maybe at a restaurant or a family gathering?  You know who I mean, that loathsome, tree-hugging liberal, smugly eating his tofu making it difficult to enjoy your own bloody hunk of cow flesh.  If you are like me, you try to avoid looking at these people at all costs - just the sight of them makes your skin crawl!

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    Meaningless Milestones and the Damage Done

    By oleeb on Wed, 04/29/2009 - 5:55pm |
    Here at the much vaunted and quite synthetic 100 days milestone we will be peppered with all sorts of analysis about what the President's performance thus far "means."  All of it will be little more than junk food for your...
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    The End (of the GOP) is near

    By Barth on Wed, 04/29/2009 - 5:20pm |
    What follows below the fold is a slightly edited from a post last September, in which I tried to explain whatever Sen McCain's qualifications were to be president, they  were irrelevant given the party which nominated him.  It is worth...
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    I Came, I Saw, I Floundered

    By Richard Day on Wed, 04/29/2009 - 3:48pm |
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    "Oh, Habib! Don't let the Americans take you alive--they tortured my cousin Habib and smeared him with menstrual blood!""I will die first, Habib" he replied.

    By jollyroger on Wed, 04/29/2009 - 9:07am |
    With a nod to Al Bundy, I am calling attention to the *other reason not to get a reputation for torturing captives. Your opponents will fight you to the death rather than surrender, right? *Since the repugnants snicker (perhaps with...
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    RETHINKING WHO THE SWINE REALLY IS

    By crazedandconfused on Wed, 04/29/2009 - 5:55am |

    When you hear the word swine - it's generally not used to describe something in a nice way.  It's been used to describe the Republican party so much over the last few years that I thought they were switching their mascot from an elephant to a giant pig laying in it's own filth.  It is more fitting after all.  But this post isn't about their transgressions.  This post is about the fact that the American meat consumer might just be the swine after all.

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    By elliottness on Wed, 04/29/2009 - 1:56am |

    You are in the river
    You are part
    Where you were, long gone
    It's role played
    Where you are going
    But a figment
    All a story well told. Lived.

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    NFW-A GOOD SPECTER FOR US ALL

    By Richard Day on Tue, 04/28/2009 - 3:56pm |
    NO FRICKIN WAY WE ARE GOIN TO HAVE 60 DEMS IN THE SENATE Jesse just hit this but I cannot leave this alone. This is BIG BIG NEWS. Some dolt from the repubs said something like: This switch in party...

    Arlen learned from...

    By azpaull on Tue, 04/28/2009 - 3:55pm |
    ...Joe's experience in Connecticut.   If he hadn't watched Lieberman get ripped apart in the primary and then come back to win in the general - and, the lasting bad feelings that that resulted in - I think Specter might've...
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    Blogorama: Of Free Speech and Miracles

    By Ramona on Mon, 04/27/2009 - 7:13pm |
    When I first started writing, there was no internet and thus no blogging, and thus no everyday opportunity to opinionate--or bloviate, as the case may be. If we were lucky, our opinions would be published in our local newspaper's...
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    The Pajama Man

    By Richard Day on Mon, 04/27/2009 - 4:37pm |
    I am writing a blog I'm the Pajama Man I'm writing a post today For I am really in the mood For a light taste of crude And you all got me feelin all right dadadadaaada dadadadadadada Now I'm so...
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    Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

    By Barth on Sat, 04/25/2009 - 3:47pm |
    It is so easy for some people. A year or so ago, they supported Sen Edwards, so every other Democratic candidate was wrong about almost everything. Later, they supported the eventual winning candidate, so that his opponent became the devil...
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    And you, Mr. Olbermann, sir, have just crossed the line!

    By we are stardust on Fri, 04/24/2009 - 11:27am |
    In your questionable zeal to make Sean Hannity appear more foolish (he really does not need any help), and obfuscating your motives through charitable giving, you have succeeded in further trivializing torture.  You are aiding in turning water-boarding into a...

    Idaho Spring Reflections: Republican Disillusionment, Human Rights, Aryan "Resurgence" and a bit of poetry.

    By kgb999 on Fri, 04/24/2009 - 5:00am |
    It's been a while since the election when last I checked in on my fellow Idahoans.  A couple of interesting things popped out.  Thought maybe some folks might enjoy a change of pace ... so here they are: Musings of...
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    DICK CALLED!!!!!!

    By stillidealistic on Fri, 04/24/2009 - 12:28am |
    For those of you who have been keeping up on the situation with dickday's computer, he finally called just a few minutes ago. He will accept the computer with more gratitude than he is able to express. As it stands...
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    A reading assignment

    By Barth on Thu, 04/23/2009 - 6:00pm |
    Not to get too pompous about it, but this weekend's post will further the discussion of what to do about a country which is scared into abandoning its cherished values by the lowest rent political opportunists to come this way...
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    TO MY FAVORITE PEEPS

    By Richard Day on Thu, 04/23/2009 - 3:46pm |
    I really am dumbstruck. At least for a guy who cannot shut up.  I thank everyone for all the kind things they have said in some of the blogs I have been able to read.  Except for Q's comment of...
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    The Penance of Pirates; The Prologue

    By Richard Day on Wed, 04/22/2009 - 1:58pm |
    Veni  Vidi   Vici Three years of high school Lingua Latina and two more years of the same in college and this like is abut all I can translate. One of my favorite movies that is aired once a month or...
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    Rand/Thrasymachus, Marx, and Dostoyevsky

    By Nebton on Wed, 04/22/2009 - 9:42am |

    With the lack of regulation leading to catastrophic failure of our "free market" system, in turn leading to calls for increased calls for regulation, it's no surprise that the virtues of Ayn Rand are being extolled once again. Although I have no problem with her as an author, or even as a philosopher, I do have a problem with taking her ideas out of historical context, and attributing to them a greater worth than I think they deserve.

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