Monthly Archives: April 2010

Here’s the image that’s causing the fuss

“May Allah kill Matt Stone and Trey Parker and burn them in Hell for all eternity. They insult our prophets Mohammed, Jesus, and Moses.” – Zachary “Abu Talhah al-Amrike” on Revolution Muslim website, now taken down. Well as I said … Continue reading

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Fun and games in New Orleans

They’re he-e-e-e-ere! Here’s what we know as of now: On Friday, April 16, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal’s fundraising staffer Allee Bautsch and her boyfriend Joe Brown were coming out of a Republican fundraising dinner in New Orleans organized by the … Continue reading

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Tragedy in a tortured country

Note: My weekend op-ed. Last Saturday morning I waited until my wife woke up to tell her the news. An airplane crash in Smolensk, Russia had killed the president of her country, his wife, and 94 others, including the Polish … Continue reading

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Foreign policy lessons nobody likes

Note: My weekend op-ed. When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace. They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease. But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us … Continue reading

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Celebrity Follies

Two items of celebrity news actually affected me recently, and that’s odd for me. Usually I could give a flying frack about celebrity lives, deaths, hook-ups, break-ups, and train wrecks. If a celebrity, and this usually means movie/TV star, dies … Continue reading

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A miscellany of comments

One wise piece of advice I actually took in my life made me a writer. And come to think of it, I got it second-hand. I’ve never actually found the primary source, but a friend once told me that Stephen … Continue reading

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