Archive for September, 2009

The Book of Life

Things used to be much simpler when I was a kid, at least the part about atoning for the stuff you did wrong.  There was, of course, the underlying terror of what would happen if you didn’t properly utilize the ten days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, or if…

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Punishing the Crime

Let’s not be too hard on the ‘medical technicians’, (aka completely untrained guards), in the Ohio prison that couldn’t find a vein to lethally inject Romell Broom.  God knows I’ve watched, horrified, as real ‘medical professionals’ poke and prod at poor Terri-Lynn in vain, (sometimes I embarrass myself coming up with this…

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You Lie!

Thank you, Joe Wilson.  Don’t get me wrong, I think you’re a moronic, racist asshole, but you’re tourettian outburst, (although heinously motivated), has underscored the most basic problem facing the world today.  Everybody’s lying!  It’s become a global pandemic, much deadlier than the Swine Flu, (which could also be a lie), what…

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Another Letter to Barry:

Hey, Bar, It’s me again.  Come on, please don’t disappoint me.  So many of us have been waiting so long for someone like you to come along, that a less than satisfactory result would be devastating.  I won’t pretend to comprehend the weight of your job, (I mean, I hit…

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