Brewing UP Trouble UPDATE 2

The irony of protesting wasteful government spending by purchasing a million tea bags and throwing them in various bodies of water is lost on teh protesting Tea Baggers. Which “grass roots” group came up with those bucks? Then there’s the sheer craziness of middle class Republicans protesting the end of tax cuts for the wealthy (the way the Republican controlled Congress under Bush wrote the law in the first place) after the passage of the largest tax cut for the rest of us, in our history.

Brewing Up Trouble

They call this really clever protester’s costume “The Limpbag,” modeled by Rush Limbaugh look-alike, Margo Orange-Pico. HOLLYWOOD — I’m in the L.A. area today looking for a Hate America First teabagging party to infiltrate, and I’m pretty damned discouraged right now. These are some coffee latte espresso drinkin’ fools out here I can tell you.  I haven’t found any teabagging …

Strange Bedfellows

You can live with each other, you just can’t be married.   “And who knows which is which, and who is who” —Pink Floyd   The long evolutionary heritage of religion has always been inextricably linked with the forms and functions of the evolution of government.  Long ago, the early tribal shamans were the go-to guys for all the practices …

All Hail Satan?

Who says wingnuts don’t have a sense of humor. Seriously. Who else would play Obama’s speeches backwards to try and find messages addressed to Satan.

Jesus Whips Some Ass

To the amazement of his apostles standing near at hand, who refrained from participation in what so soon followed, Jesus stepped down from the teaching platform and, going over to the lad who was driving the cattle through the court, took from him his whip of cords and swiftly drove the animals from the temple. Oh snap. Then, he strode majestically before the wondering gaze of the thousands assembled in the temple court to the farthest cattle pen and proceeded to open the gates of every stall and to drive out the imprisoned animals. (Shift happens.) By this time the assembled pilgrims were electrified, and with uproarious shouting they moved toward the bazaars and began to overturn the tables of the money-changers. In less than five minutes, all commerce had been swept from the temple.

Saturday Serenata

Here’s to bloodshot moons and burgundy skies. . . [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOUE_fmOfV4[/youtube]

The Party Of Zero

The infamous “Boner Memorial,” a controversial sculpture eulogizing the demise of the Republican Party of the late twentieth century, will be moved next week to a private museum dedicated to significant political anachronisms. Carved in 2020, the sculpture depicts the de facto leader of the Republican party in it’s death throes, Congressman John Boehner of Ohio.