headlines we should have seen: Former House of Representative leader Dick “Dick” Armey pulls off $8 million gunpoint stick-up. No, I am not exaggerating. Dick Armey walked into the Tea Party office with a gun-toting “aide” and six days later, he’s paid $400,000 a year for the next 20 years,
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the woodshed: The real meaning of Christmas and Christianity
This is what real Christianity looks and sounds like: People trying to help those who are less fortunate than themselves. As an agnostic Internet clergyman, I give religions people a lot of shit, especially fundamentalist Christians whackjobs who think Jesus wants the United States to have a bigger defence budget
Continue readingthe woodshed: It is our game, not theirs
Jack Todd goes end-to-end and puts one right through Gary Bettman’s five-hole (which is not anything like as dirty as it sound, get your mind out of the gutter, ya damned preeverts!)Todd is entirely correct, the NHL owners cannot own hockey as long as players play the game. As much
Continue readingthe woodshed: Freedumb to own push-button death machines must never be curtailed!
Apparently there are people in America who follow mass shootings the way some people used to follow the Grateful Dead. Another member of the “well regulated militia” is heard from in California. Just another law-abiding gun owner and firearms hobbyist in Indiana. Yet one more responsible gun owner . I
Continue readingthe woodshed: Just another day in America
NEWTOWN, Conn. — As gunshots echoed through an elementary school in Connecticut on Friday, children huddled in the corners and closets where desperate teachers had tried to hide them from the gunman who had invaded their school.By the time it was over, 28 people, including 20 children the gunman and
Continue readingthe woodshed: If they gave Nobels for this sort of thing I have a nominee
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Continue readingthe woodshed: Santa doesn’t send threatening cards
From the Huffington Post Canada: In the spirit of the holidays, Abbotsford police are sending Christmas cards to gangsters and drug dealers featuring the police chief dressed as Santa in tactical gear.A message in the card says: “We believe it is never too late to make a better choice for
Continue readingthe woodshed: A statement from the police or his plans for the weekend?
Quote of the day from the Associated Press: In dealing with marijuana, the Seattle Police Department told its 1,300 officers on Wednesday, just before legalization took hold, that until further notice they shall not issue citations for public marijuana use. Officers will be advising people not to smoke in public,
Continue readingthe woodshed: Better living through chemistry
Every once in a while I am reminded of Arthur C. Clarke’s maxim that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Also, I am reminded that every once in a while a gigantic corporation does something really good for the world an…
Continue readingthe woodshed: Stopping the gravy train
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Continue readingthe woodshed: The Democrats should be so lucky
This is a real column in a real newspaper, not an article from the Onion or some piece of snark from the Daily Show. And the scary part is that about 15 to 20 percent of the voting public in the United States would think it was wise, incisive political…
Continue readingthe woodshed: Res Ipsa Loquitor
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Continue readingthe woodshed: Where’s the money, Karl?
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Continue readingthe woodshed: I think we have reached peak stupid
Via Tbogg THOMAS JEFFERSON, a denunciation of slavery, 1785 The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it The parent storms,
Continue readingthe woodshed: While I was away from the blog…
I bought a house! The East Coast got slammed with a hurricane The Excited States got ready to elect a president. Somehow, it is considered to be a close race. Damned if I can understand how it could be close, but then George W. Bush beat John Kerry so clearly
Continue readingthe woodshed: Catching up on my reading
I bet you thought I’d forgotten about this little project of mine to read 50 books this year. Admittedly, I seem to have fallen behind, what with switching jobs and house hunting and general laziness, but in fact I have not fallen behind on the reading part (at least not
Continue readingthe woodshed: I almost feel sorry for Mittens…almost
Jon Stewart at his absolute finest, he practically has steam coming out of his ears. The Democrats should be airing this morning noon and night until the election on any channel that will sell them time. Anyone who can watch this and still believe a word uttered on Fox News
Continue readingthe woodshed: Wink at the moon
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Continue readingthe woodshed: books are stored wisdom, read some!
Think of them as analog Kindles, Nooks, or Kobos, or like really long blogs posts that you have printed off to read later. Tweet The Rev. Paperboy Feed
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