Live Free. Live Dangerously .

"I would like to direct this to the distinguished members of the panel. You lousy cork-suckers. You have violated my fargin' rights. This suminonbatching country was founded so that the liberties of common patriotic citizens, like me, could not be taken away by a bunch of fargin' ice holes, like yourselves." Roman Marone

More Con Than Neo

". . .we are forced to contemplate the batrachian grapplings of Paul Wolfowitz, the man who cherry-picked intelligence to sell us a war with Iraq. You will not be surprised to learn, gentle readers, that Wolfie in love is no less deceptive and bumbling than Wolfie at war. Proving he is more con than neo, he confessed that he had not been candid with his staff at the World Bank. While he was acting holier than thou, demanding incorruptibility from poor countries desperate for loans, he was enriching his girlfriend with tax-free ducats." . . .
"This vacuum in leadership spawned the White House plan to create a powerful war czar to oversee Iraq and Afghanistan, who could replace Ms. O'Sullivan when she leaves. The push to finally get the A-team on the case is laughably, tragically late. The Washington Post reported that at least five retired four-star generals have refused to be considered; the paper quoted retired Marine Gen. Jack Sheehan as saying, 'The very fundamental issue is, they don't know where the hell they're going.' I couldn't have said it better myself." More Con Than Neo By Maureen Dowd, The New York Times

Armed and Dangerous

Things happen on this Pale Blue Dot.

Happy Birthday Vicki

This good little witch turned 51 on April 10, 2007.

Oops!

Lawyer: Rove Didn't Mean to Delete Email

Wolfowitz Apologizes in Salary Scandal-Now, if He’d Just Apologize For The Iraq Scandal.

"World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz apologized Thursday for his role in helping his girlfriend Shaha Ali Riza secure a lucrative job at the State Department, for which she is said to be paid even more than Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice."
See, Iraq War's Architect Apologizes in Salary Scandal

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. November 11, 1922 - April 11, 2007-THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC.

God made mud.
God got lonesome.
So God said to some of the mud, "Sit up!"
"See all I've made," said God, "the hills, the sea, the sky, the stars."

And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around.
Lucky me, lucky mud.

I, mud, sat up and saw what a nice job God had done.
Nice going, God.
Nobody but you could have done it, God! I certainly couldn't have.
I feel very unimportant compared to You.
The only way I can feel the least bit important is to think of all the mud
that didn't even get to sit up and look around.
I got so much, and most mud got so little.
Thank you for the honor!

Now mud lies down again and goes to sleep.
What memories for mud to have!
What interesting other kinds of sitting-up mud I met!
I loved everything I saw!
Good night.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Cat's Cradle.
See, also, Thanks a lot you dirty rats.

Sorry About This Taz. Sorry for Us All.

“[Tasmanian Devils] are being wiped out on the island state of Tasmania by a contagious cancer that creates grotesque facial tumors.”

The gas is a’seepin in
The water’s a creepin in
The yellow bird don’t sing in the mines anymore. (Don’t remember who wrote this)

Birds don’t sing as much above ground either. See, Birds fell out of the sky as a whole town was poisoned by lead dust

Words Hurt Too.

We are, in spite of our "progress," a racist and sexist society. "'We need to get to the point where we don't call women hos, we don't classify African American women as 'nappy-headed hos,' said team captain Essence Carson."

The Good News-Virg Has Lost 20 Pounds.

Click Here for the Bad News.

Happy Easter-Thank You Jesus, Attis, Mithra et. al.

“Attis, who immaculately conceived by Nana, was gored by a wild boar but resurrected on March 22 . . .”
“The son/Sun had died and so there was darkness. And look how many hours this lasted for: three. The same story of darkness at their death was told by the Hindus of Khrishna, the Buddhists of Buddha, the Greeks of Hercules, the Mexicans of Quetzalcoatl, ad infinitum, long before Jesus. When he died, Jesus `descended into hell', just like the earlier Khrishna, Zoroaster, Osiris, Horus, Adonis/Tammuz, Bacchus, Hercules, Mercury and so on. He then rose from the dead like the earlier Khrishna, Buddha, Zoroaster, Adonis/Tammuz, Osiris, Mithra, Hercules and Baldur.”
And don't forget the Easter Bunny.

Lucy’s Right-Dion Did Abraham Martin & John. So Did Whitney.

Click here for Dion's version.

Abraham, Martin, & John.

One ole boy asked if I were gay after I put a link to U2 instead of Tommy Cash in the post below. I told him it’s nonea his damn business and I’m, by God, secure in my sexuality. Still, by popular demand, here's is an earlier tribute to Rev. King & the Kennedy brothers by Tommy Cash. I was a friend of old Tommy’s. I’s in the Navy with im.

Free At Last?

On April 4, 1968, when Virgil was a student at the University of Arkansas, his next door neighbors burst through his door cheering “They got him.” Virg & his roommates asked “who?” The neighbors, with looks of glee, said that Martin Luther King Jr. had been shot. I don’t know what we said, if anything, but the neighbors blushed, mumbled an apology and backed out. They never came over again. Arkansas -even my generation-& the world have changed since then. The change is not big enough or fast enough, but I hope it continues.
Pride (In The Name Of Love) lyrics are below. To hear U2 sing it, click here.
One man come in the name of love One man come and go One man come here to justify One man to overthrow In the name of love! What more in the name of love? In the name of love! What more? In the name of love! One man caught on a barbed wire fence One man he resists One man washed on an empty beach One man betrayed with a kiss In the name of love! What more in the name of love? In the name of love! What more? In the name of love! ...nobody like you...there's nobody like you... Mmm...mmm...mmm... Early morning, April 4 Shot rings out in the Memphis sky Free at last, they took your life They could not take your pride In the name of love! What more in the name of love? In the name of love! What more in the name of love? In the name of love! What more in the name of love...

Whoever Thought George H.W. & Danny Would Look Comparatively Competent?

Colonel Ann Wright Is Still Fighting For Her Country.

WRIGHT: "I want to make sure the United States treats people properly.."

O'REILLY: "Sure you do. Sure you do."

WRIGHT: "I surely do. That's what I spent 29 years of my life trying to do."

O'REILLY: "Sorry. No you didn't. You know what happened to you…somewhere along the line you started to dislike your own country…."

WRIGHT: "I served 29 years. How many did you serve? Where did you teach the Geneva Conventions?"

O'REILLY: "Cut her mic."

Click here to read Ann's resignation letter.

Too Bad McCain (Or Bush or Cheney) Didn’t Walk Down This Street.

Passover Is Not Just Seder Masochism

"Passover is probably the best known of the Jewish holidays, mostly because it ties in with Christian history (the Last Supper was apparently a Passover seder), and because a lot of its observances have been reinterpreted by Christians as Messianic and signs of Jesus."
I wonder why God made Pesach, Beltane, Easter, and Buddha's birthday happen at the same time?

Tempus Fugit-Benny "Kid" Paret Has Been Dead For 45 Years

Gil Hodges Make's Virgil's Hall of Fame

So, by God, does Buck O'Neil.