J. D. Salinger Moves On

Salinger made us believe that it was not only our right to challenge authority and convention, but also our duty ~ zjm

A Voice That Lives On

"I think people are dazzled by Obama's rhetoric, and that people ought to begin to understand that Obama is going to be a mediocre president - which means, in our time, a dangerous president - unless there is some national movement to push him in a better direction."

Howard Zinn

Asshole of the Century

By Thom Butler

Whether he's proclaiming himself the chaplain to the Nicaraguan contras during the Reagan years, or he's yammering along with Jerry Falwell pontificating that God is judging the U.S. with Islamic Fundamentalists in airplanes because of Gays and Abortions (and then not having the guts or the honesty to admit it despite the videotape evidence), or insisting that God performed the miracle of Katrina by wiping away the sin and degradation of New Orleans, or now saying not one but TWO horrible things about Haiti... First that it is probably a "blessing in disguise" (a comment that rivals Barb Bush's comment about Katrina survivors in the AstroDome being "better off" for ugly, self-involved insensitivity) and secondly that the Haitians made a pact with the devil in order to get rid of the French and now they are suffering from God's judgement (I don't know if that's an attack on Haitians, the French, or both) it's the Pat Robertson Circus of Evil hitting the airwaves one more time!!!

If there ever was a reason to refuse to become a Christian, or to simply decide that in the present day context of the world it might be time to be a "post-Christian," this man and his unconscionable bullshit is it.

At one point in my life, many years ago, I was myself hoodwinked by this self-aggrandizing, self-satisfied, ugly excuse for a human being. I didn't know then about his familial ties to large banking interests and the personal greed he wallowed in while picking the pockets of the sick and the old, the innocent and the stupid. I was a Jesus Freak and a media fanatic and the two came together in all the cool things that were being done in "Christian MEdia" by Pat and his newly formed "Christian" Broadcasting Network.

But that was 40 years ago and I have learned much since (though certainly not enough). Pat Robertson has also proceeded further and further down the streets of evil and hate and stupidity that he has paved with other people's gold. I watch in awe and disgust at the video commentary (which I will not link to here because I will not add to his hit count) and it makes my blood boil.

If the vengeful, hateful, vindictive God that Pat Robertson believes in really does exist, then the logic of the greater universe must dictate that the real miracle reparation would be for that God to strike down (or at least mute) this evil, treacherous, deceitful and mean excuse for a human being.

To steal from Olberman (again)... Today - and always - Pat Robertson is the WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD!!!