Chris Matthews nails that RI bishop on the Catholic church over-stepping its authority on abortion, and he does it better than I've ever seen it done to their face, while also staying completely respectful ( Read more... )

Here's the God's honest truth. I am not a big sports person, never have been. When I was a kid I consistently sucked at every sport I tried, felt intimidated by jock-y guys, and thought people generally spent way too much energy worshipping athletes. As a budding artist, I took refuge in the one thing I could do well, and tried to protect my ( Read more... )

Howdy y'awlz. Haven't posted in a while -- nothing dramatic, just been busy. I'll do a coupla real updates soon, but 1st ( Read more... )

The day after Sen. Kennedy died, at the Cherry Grove pier, NY


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Anyone else having Gmail server outage? I started hearing about it from others a day or 2 ago, then a couple hours ago it started with me. There are emails to answer & no way to get to them. ARGHH!

So yay. Those 2 Fort Worth officers behind the June 28 gay-bar raid and their supervisor have been fired (and 2 of their higher-ups given a slap on the wrist). It's bad enough that the raid was deliberately timed as a nose-thumbing gesture on the exact night of Stonewall's 40th anniversary, to show that yes police in America can still invade gay ( Read more... )

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Dear [redacted Amazon 3rd party retailer],

Hi - I am the composer of the disc listed above. My question is, while most of the other Amazon retailers are selling this disc for between $3 and $5, why in the world do you list it as $38-39?!? You can't expect me to believe that your "new, unopened" copy of this is 8 times better than someone else's ( Read more... )

Um, the president was right. The Cambridge police did act stupidly.

Not, "the Cambridge police ARE stupid."
Not, "all police are stupid."
Not, "I'm a closet one-man jihadist sleeper cell who forged my birth certificate so I could run for president 30 years later, so of course I diss all authority figures and wish slow death on police officers and ( Read more... )

My friend Gerry is an evil genius. He's also the organist at the church I cantor at these days.

Yesterday morning at about 8:45, when we were in the organ loft preparing to start the 1st mass of the day, I saw a Godspell book laying around & said something about my long-ago experience with a kids' chorus doing that slutty flapper song Turn Back O ( Read more... )