LIPSTICK ON A PIG RELIGION

Radical Preacher and Pig Religionist, John Hagee Blogging at the Nation, John Nichols shared the following remarks of radical preacher John Hagee regarding Hurricane Katrina and the city of New Orleans’ “sinful” acceptance of homosexuality: “What happened in New Orleans looked like the curse of God…” Hagee explained after the city experienced a national disaster that cost at least 1,836 …

America the Community

AMERICA THE COMMUNITY By Stan Hartman   There is so little that is close and warm. It is as if we were never children. —Wallace Stevens Those are some of the saddest lines in the whole of American literature, yet they also point to an aspect of America that’s most deeply joyful— the sense of real family, and in a …

RECIPE FOR DISASTER

UPDATED. . . McCain “Family Recipes” Lifted from the Bush Administration The MSM mouse circus has cooked up another diversionary dish ‘o shit this week, the main entrée being a few purloined recipes from the Food Chanel being tossed off as “family recipes” of the McCain family, (as if McCain could find her way to any one of her own …

A Selective Look At Today’s News

• An alarming number of people are wearing their shirts inside out today. • The last flake of snow melted off the roof hours ago. • A quantum leap was made by several thousand seekers since midnight, and several thousand more will experience one before midnight. • Hundreds of tires are going flat as you read this. • Some people …

WHO ARE YOU, REALLY?

There’s a fascinating article by Amanda Marcotte at PANDAGON, “My hands are mine, but my feet are my sister,” which recounts a most unusual anomaly among the naturally occurring vagaries of human gene blending. In the process of unfolding that amazing story, she somewhat tangentially observes: I don’t truck with the more superstitious need to have individuality strongly defined in …

TRUTH TO POWER

. . . And from someone who can be president. But no wonder most Americans don’t recognize Truth spoken to power when they hear it. They’ve never heard it from chimpy.  

JESUS. IS. NOT. DEAD.

EDITOR’S NOTE: The fourth installment from the Daily Matzo, a rare extant parchment throw-away rag of 30 A.D. Jerusalem coffee shops, chronicles the unprecedented events surrounding the crucifixion and resurrection of one Joshua Ben Joseph, the Galilean boat builder, and coincidentally, the “Son of God.” [Daily Matzo] Editor’s Preface of April 9, 30 A.D. : All Jerusalem is astir this …