Some place between 40 and Death
Posted in Epicaricacy, politics on 28 February 2008 - 23 אדר א' 5768
There are many reasons we’re going bottom up in the USA right now: lack of financial restraint, lack of corporate ethics, an unjustified (and some insist, unconstitutional) war draining resources from a population not being asked to sacrifice, etc. None of these is a good thing.
But they are all combining with something [...]
Posted in Epicaricacy, asheville on 27 February 2008 - 22 אדר א' 5768
Is your MegaHome Suburb turning into a multimillion dollar crack den?
At Windy Ridge, a recently built starter-home development seven miles northwest of Charlotte, North Carolina, 81 of the community’s 132 small, vinyl-sided houses were in foreclosure as of late last year. Vandals have kicked in doors and stripped the copper wire from vacant houses; drug [...]
Posted in Epicaricacy, politics, rightwingers on 4 January 2008 - 27 טבת 5768
At the Iowa Caucuses, last night, Pastor Huckabee’s cheerleader, Rebecca Sweethood, lets you know what she, at least, thinks of you in this prayer for the Pastor:
We pray that you would lift Mike Huckabee up, Lord… Lord we pray that he would not be ashamed to be known as a pastor. And that is exactly [...]
Posted in Epicaricacy, politics on 31 December 2007 - 23 טבת 5768
The US ranks with China and Russia (and the UK) as endemic surveillance societies.
I feel so free right now.
The best place for your freedoms? Greece, although Canada and parts of the EU also do good.
Posted in Brodie, Epicaricacy, jocularity, politics on 29 December 2007 - 21 טבת 5768
I’ve been thinking this week about a line of sarcastic (and slightly vulgar) t-shirts to celebrate the fact that the Canadian Dollar is stronger than the US Dollar in world markets. 1 US dollar can currently only purchase 98 Canadian cents - in the 1980s, for example, I could get between 110 and 120 [...]
» Not being a jerk about it...:
- #» Still desperate for any attention at all (The Queen City, that is... although Queen of the what? That's the real question.)
- #» Papercraft CCTV: Be Yer own Big Brother!
- #» T-shirt gets Van Nuys woman kicked out of federal building: DHS Rent-a-Brownshirt gets in serious trouble.
- #» Priest cancels nun beauty contest. Damn. I was hoping the next stage would be the "Father What-a-Waste" Hunky Priest contest!
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The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580 by Eamon Duffy
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