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The Back Door to the Church 26 Aug 2013 | 10:06 pm
Back in 1980 a historian named John Boswell – who happened to be a devoted mass-a-day Roman Catholic – published a book called Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western ...
Out of Context 23 Aug 2013 | 09:46 pm
I have many pet peeves. Hell, I have a ranch of them and run a good 150,000 head of peeves on the back 40 acres of my mind. My rants do not come my jolly outlook on live, and tolerance for fools. They...
The Art and the Artist 22 Aug 2013 | 11:58 pm
At what point does the artist become so repugnant you cannot make yourself like his/her art anymore? I have some big ol’ hot-buttons on certain issues that will make me eschew an artist because the si...
Hairy Carey 21 Aug 2013 | 08:17 pm
A couple of months ago my daughters met a teenager with (check it) BLUE BANGS. Her whole head was not blue – only the bangs. It was the coolest. thing. ever. as far as Lilo & Stitch were concerned. Af...
Neither sleet nor snow nor congress … 20 Aug 2013 | 09:09 pm
Sweet Babou and I traipsed down to the post office the other day to get our passports. There was a certain amount of tedious involved, in that forms had to be filled out in black ink and pictures had ...
Asshats v/s Autism 20 Aug 2013 | 12:33 am
As those who read me regularly already know, my eldest daughter is on the Autism Spectrum. Lilo has Asperger syndrome and it shows. Granted, it shows less than it did before we modified her diet and g...
Let the Games Begin! 16 Aug 2013 | 09:55 pm
There is too much depressing, heartbreaking, Mammon-serving, evil shit happening on the planet (as usual) and I don’t want to cope with it today. Rather, I wanna blog about something interesting. Well...
We are all drinking the same water 15 Aug 2013 | 09:11 pm
Y’all, the number of reported assaults by cops on black people for the heinous crime of BEING BLACK depresses the crap out of me. They handcuffed and choked a 14 year old black kid who was holding a p...
Poo, Couches, and Clicking 14 Aug 2013 | 08:28 pm
Glory! Glory alleluia! Baby Spock dropped a deuce! She did this voluntarily. And by “voluntarily” I mean she issued demands and when they were met she released the hostages. Her primary demand was to ...
The Proof is in Their Putzing 13 Aug 2013 | 04:05 pm
It comes to a total unsurprise, but yet another batch of scientific studies have found that rich people are more likely to be asshats than their non-rich cohorts. Among the findings were that: Driver...