The Boss Backs Obama

Dear Friends and Fans: Like most of you, I’ve been following the campaign and I have now seen and heard enough to know where I stand. Senator Obama, in my view, is head and shoulders above the rest. He has the depth, the reflectiveness, and the resilience to be our next President. He speaks to the America I’ve envisioned in …

WHO ARE YOU, REALLY?

There’s a fascinating article by Amanda Marcotte at PANDAGON, “My hands are mine, but my feet are my sister,” which recounts a most unusual anomaly among the naturally occurring vagaries of human gene blending. In the process of unfolding that amazing story, she somewhat tangentially observes: I don’t truck with the more superstitious need to have individuality strongly defined in …

TRUTH TO POWER

. . . And from someone who can be president. But no wonder most Americans don’t recognize Truth spoken to power when they hear it. They’ve never heard it from chimpy.  

JESUS. IS. NOT. DEAD.

EDITOR’S NOTE: The fourth installment from the Daily Matzo, a rare extant parchment throw-away rag of 30 A.D. Jerusalem coffee shops, chronicles the unprecedented events surrounding the crucifixion and resurrection of one Joshua Ben Joseph, the Galilean boat builder, and coincidentally, the “Son of God.” [Daily Matzo] Editor’s Preface of April 9, 30 A.D. : All Jerusalem is astir this …

General Petraeus Takes The Hill

So, there were a couple of hearings on Iraq yesterday in the Senate. There was the predictable charts and graphs showing a reduction in violence in Baghdad, the main target of the “surge.” (Surprising just how much ethnic cleansing a few well-motivated death squads can accomplish when they really put their minds to it.) And in Western Iraq, where the …

JUDAS IS DEAD

Early this Saturday morning, Temple guards, on orders from the high priest, acting on a tip from an anonymous source, discovered the torn and shattered remains of one Judas Iscariot, in the near vicinity of the deep and narrow ravine west of the city known to all as the Valley of Hinnom; the dump of all Jerusalem.

JESUS. IS. DEAD.

He trusted in God to deliver him. He even claimed to be the Son of God— look at him now— crucified between two thieves.