Controversial sculpture highlights the Bush Liebrary courtyard. (Click) DALLAS — The “Mission Accomplished” Sculpture Garden Annex to the George W. Bush Liebrary® was dedicated this week on the campus of Southern Methodist University, in a very brief ceremony honoring the achievement[s] of the outgoing chief executive. The Annex is a publicly funded project which apposed the building of an oxymoronic …
Questions, Questions, Questions, flooding into the mind of the concerned young person today. Ah, but it’s a great time to be alive, ladies and gentlemen. And that’s the theme of our program for tonight. It’s so FUCKING GREAT to be alive!
Children are born believers in God, academic claims By Martin Beckford, Religious Affairs Correspondent, Telegraph.co.uk 24 Nov 2008 Dr Justin Barrett, a senior researcher at the University of Oxford’s Centre for Anthropology and Mind, claims that young people have a predisposition to believe in a supreme being because they assume that everything in the world was created with a purpose. …
There is much hope and expectation in America that a new day has dawned, a day of justice and fairness, of true compassion and a new expression of our highest ideals. Today, we should all pray that this is true; that we are about to enter a new way of looking at our existence, at our world; a new way that eliminates the shameful neglect of the least fortunate among us.
Everything must await the coming of its time. You are born into the world, but no amount of anxiety and no manifestation of impatience will help you to grow up. You must, in all such matters, wait upon time. Time alone will ripen the green fruit upon the tree. Season follows season and sundown follows sunrise only with the passing …
More than a few police DO NOT CROSS lines are being ignored right now. Giant phalli in the Erotica Museum are acting-out again. A six year old I know is very frustrated with school. “It’s just a waste of my time,” he said to me. “I can’t read; I can’t write; and they won’t let me talk!” I can’t locate …
New-cue-lure. When I hear a public servant use the Joe Six-pack pronunciation of the word nuclear, I feel a huge tell on stupid. Of course Bush was the precedent-setting poster boy who taught us abysmal ignorance always follows on the heels of this particular faux pas. But Flailin’ Palin has a few other “tells,” some of which you may have …
