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Them Librul’s Gonna Take Away My Guns…

There’s a lot of symptomatic nuttiness in this tale of yet another gun-nut nearly run amok.
MIAMI (AP) - A 20-year-old with a weapons cache that included four AK-47s was arrested after threatening over the Internet to undertake a Virginia Tech-style massacre, authorities said Thursday.
Oregon authorities learned of a March 25 Internet message allegedly posted by [...]

Help is needed in Lewis County

From Susan Sheary through the PDCW listserve:
The recent storms and flooding have devastated Lewis County. The residents are in dire need of basic supplies — water, food, clothing, holiday gifts — all matter of donations are needed. Please visit the United Way link to learn how you may help,
http://www.lewiscountyuw.com/
Please consider [...]

what are you thankful for?

This year, I’m most grateful for the successful treatment of my father-in-law’s prostate cancer, which caught us all by surprise back in February when an x-ray to diagnose L.’s hip pain revealed what his annual PSA tests had not. (Some of the rarer and more aggressive forms of prostate cancer do not raise the PSA [...]

Some tips on viewing video on the web

Some people don’t know this, so it might be worth sharing…
If you want to watch a rather longish video on Google Video, YouTube (some people manage to squeak in a half-hour or longer video, despite YouTube’s limit of 10 minutes, believe it or not.) etc.,  the trick is to let it load up for a [...]

Crazy Rulers of the World

So, what does David Koresh, Barney the Dinosaur, Lindy England, Matchbox 20, hamsters and New Age music have in common?Lots, according to British journalist Jon Ronson.
Ronson, whose book The Men Who Stare at Goats was one of my favorite reads this busy summer, did a companion piece TV series entitled Crazy Rulers of the World.It’s [...]

Some good news here about youth

This would be really interesting if there was another column for “Youth” ten years ago. But the numbers are very encouraging for the future.

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Absurd Image of the Week: Harry Potter and the Russian Orthodox Hobgoblins

Some sinisterly attired Russian Orthodox Church members hold a rally and burn Harry Potter books. One of them looks like Santa Claus in Laibach drag.

Found at English Russia

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Art Prank Co-Opts Right Wing Crank Event

Hilarious, yet potentially offensive prank that fingers a right wing War on Terror propaganda event and in the process, tells it like it is; not against Muslims, as this article attempts to make the case, but against the organizers of the event entitled Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week.
University officials are investigating several hundred posters hung around campus [...]

KATU Doesn’t Dig on Weird Portland

KATU - usually our less shrill and moronic major media affiliate, perhaps either frustrated with no response to an open request, finally posted their story on the meme of What’s Weird About Portland.
Predictably, they disdainfully lump the ‘weird’ into one big gooey pile of racist skinheads, pedophiles, and anti-war protesters, along with the idea [...]

Lowe’s Tells O’Reilly to Pack Sand

I’m dealing with a home plumbing nightmare. I almost always loathe going to DIY stores. It’s almost always when I’m struggling with a major maintenance event, so it’s rarely a happy shopping moment. When I heard that Home Depot gave lots of money and PR effort to Bush, I naturally started going to smaller, local [...]

Dr. Laura’s Little Monster

I used to work next to someone who insisted on listening to Dr. Laura every day for a couple of years. I even had to endure her show moving more and more into Judeo-Xtian fundamentalism (she used to do more counseling than self-righteous condemnation back in the day, believe it or not). Is it any [...]

The Terrorist Hoax Improvements Act of 2007: Badly named, ill-advised legislation

The government will soon be able to sue parties involved in “hoaxes” that are mistaken for terrorism if a new bill is passed by Congress. The bill, entitled “The Terrorist Hoax Improvements Act of 2007,” was introduced by the Senate and will amend the federal criminal code to include a number of new clauses meant [...]