Republicans Eating Their Own: Update: Joe The Plumber

Joe, The Non-Licensed Plumber, has apparently become disenchanted with his former sponsor, presidential wannabe, John McCain. Politico.com reports: “Joe Wurzelbacher lashed out Tuesday at former GOP presidential nominee John McCain, the man who made Wurzelbacher famous as “Joe the Plumber.” Wurzelbacher told conservative radio host Glenn Beck that he felt “dirty” after “being on the campaign trail and seeing some …

ZAPPADAN! I Should Explain.

Watermelon In Easter Hay is certainly one of Frank’s quintessential pieces. During our celebration of Zappadan it starts to play automatically on any Zappadan article that’s at the top of the page… The voice of The Central Scrrrrrrrrrrrutinizer can be unnerving to some…

Suzy Creamcheese, What’s Got Into Ya?

Questions, Questions, Questions, flooding into the mind of the concerned young person today. Ah, but it’s a great time to be alive, ladies and gentlemen. And that’s the theme of our program for tonight. It’s so FUCKING GREAT to be alive!

And The Last Shall Be First

A house built by slaves… Well, there goes the neighborhood. Huffpo reports that: Obama Plans To Invite Artists, Scientists, Poets To White House To Inspire “National Character” It cites a Politico.com article that reads: President-elect Obama says he and Michelle Obama plan to open the White House to local pupils as a “bully pulpit” to inspire youth to reach for …

Jimmy Carl Black

Jimmy Carl Black, the original drummer for Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention, passed over to the other side November 1, 2008 at 11 p.m. in Traunstein, Germany.

Half a Dozen Provacative Squats

• Don’t kid yourself. Everybody in this room is wearing a uniform. ••••••—Frank Zappa • It was January of 1968.  I had been on the boat only three days or so when this boot from Louisiana comes on board. I’m mostly listening to The Doors and The Byrds. He turns me on to Cream, and Frank Zappa and the Mothers …

DIVIDING THE INHERITANCE

When the crowds who came to hear Jesus teach began to include many of his bitter enemies, he explained his decision to teach in parables this way: “I will present my teaching in a parable, so that you may each take for yourself that which finds a reception in your heart.”