Remember the candles that smell like Jesus? Yeah, well, the happy news folks at Good Morning America had some on today and were chatting them up the same way they might a cute new line of poodle sweaters. Now, I get it – this is some funny, frivolous stuff that’s good for lighthearted entertainment (if you have a brain, anyway

Are these people completely stupid? One of the purposes of TiVo is ad-avoidance. Greed kills…..

Veni. Vedi. Blogi. San Diego was great. Good to see fikshun and catwhite. Awesome to see John Lawrence of myths_americana given the Lifetime Achievement Award by the ACA – hard to imagine a more deserving recipient. Now we’re off home. Flight departs at 11:25 am PST, and it will be a miracle if I get to the house before 1

Jim Booth over at The Savoy Truffle (sirpaulsbuddy, that is) walks us through the Republic at the present time. I’m looking at the Preamble…and I’m not seeing anything there that suggests that taking from the poor and giving to the rich is providing for the common defense, promoting the general welfare, establishing justice, insuring domestic tranquility, securing the blessings of

Jimmy listened as the distinguished professor, wisdom silver as her hair, explained how no human has ever seen his/her own back with his/her own eyes. Later, Jimmy was found oddly twisted near a mirror neck broken as a heart.

[Thanks to beast_o_bourbon for passing this on.] American Nation Brainwashed by John Dear … We have become a culture of Pharisees. Instead of practicing an authentic spirituality of compassion, nonviolence, love and peace, we as a collective people have become self-righteous, arrogant, powerful, murderous hypocrites who dominate and kill others in the name of God. The Pharisees supported the brutal

You’ll want to review this when you get a minute.

[Credit: Thanks to Cody Barstow of Mojo City News for the link.] Fla. officials’ attempt, fail to seize Schiavo Fri Mar 25, 9:32 PM ET MIAMI – Hours after a judge ordered that Terri Schiavo wasn’t to be removed from her hospice, a team of Florida law enforcement agents were en route to seize her and have her feeding tube

biasedreporter asked the community what it thought about coverage of the Schiavo story. I posted a comment, but then I got to expanding on it and thought I’d xpost the revised comment here for the benefit of those who don’t read that community. The “coverage” of the story has been appalling. Again we have a case where the institutional press

Thx to fikshun for pointing out that Terri Schiavo has an LJ account at terrischiavo. So, so very wrong….

You scored as Existentialism. Your life is guided by the concept of Existentialism: You choose the meaning and purpose of your life. “Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.” “It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.” –Jean-Paul Sartre “It is man’s natural sickness to believe

Florida bill aims to control ‘leftist’ profs — The law could let students sue for untolerated beliefs TALLAHASSEE — Republicans on the House Choice and Innovation Committee voted along party lines Tuesday to pass a bill that aims to stamp out “leftist totalitarianism” by “dictator professors” in the classrooms of Florida’s universities. The Academic Freedom Bill of Rights, sponsored by

sunfell offers an outstanding take on the GOP, Frank Lutz, and their methods for mastering public opinion.

Surprising no one, the Supreme Court has just rejected the appeal by Terri Schiavo’s parents to reinsert her feeding tube. No doubt GOP grandstanders will try to find a way of spinning this into even more cynical, pro-life base-energizing gold. But the thing that’s worth noting is just how quickly all the federal courts appealed to since Congress passed “Terri’s

I’m in SD for the Popular Culture Association conference, which is now officially under way. But let me tell you, getting here was an ordeal. Wake up at 2:30 am. Leave at 3 am for 90-minute drive to Buffalo Airport. Uneventful first leg, culminating in 2-hour layover in Philly. Flight from Philly to SD is 45 minutes late getting off