"Sixty-two percent of New Hampshire adults identified themselves as Christians last year, the American Religious Identification Survey for 2008 reported. This is a 23 percent decline from 1990, when 85 percent of adults called themselves Roman Catholics, mainline Protestants and other Christians...N...

Black 47 (Last One To Die) Bloody, fucking Ulster . Fucking, bloody Baghdad. Where next? One isn't really our problem, yet; one is still our problem. But, there is a relation between violence, sectarian hatred and money. Last night, the entrance to the Massereene army base in Antrim, 16 miles n...

Paul Krugman, Martin Wolff and even Ben Freaking Stein (Half-time brilliant, half-time Bozo) have all weighed in on the stimulus package as not being audacious enough. Well, this is why they are probably right ... The nation is losing jobs so quickly that the government, racing to deal with the cris...

"At this point, things come to a shattering orgasm that nothing short of slamming the book shut will end this...madness" 444400009999 The reader will feel drained... "And, the way of stopping the slippage of the top of socks......

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Jaysus, Mary and Joseph, don't they look like prison guards, or cops? Funky Céilí One of my O'Blogo brothers sent me this plug and bit of insight from Helen Rittlemeyer of The Cigarette Smoking Blog and  thought my response needed to be posted. I'm interested in the book, since I remembe...

returning to a little bit of form here, I stumbled into a little bit of defeatism in a conversation today with a friend.  my friend has just started a new job in the city and commutes in from the far suburbs.  the suburbs of another town, and if you were to look at a Gazateer, you&...

So, Europe's warboiler is on again, and the liberals are eager to spill more blood in the hopes of transformative democracy or whatever...I hate liberals. I am one in a lot of respects, but I am not a Hobbit. Our first Bosnian adventure wasn't terrible, as in fact, our first Iraqi adventure ...

"Do we need to actually clarify that there's nothing like a psychic; what are we, fucking two?" "Oh, that's a good point. Let me think for a bit...oh, yeah, it's not, it's fucking shit!" Thanks, Ed... Thanks, BBC... Delectable, inflatable you...Inflatable You - Tim Minchin...

I dislike Rap. Hell, I hate it. I don't get it, and my Paddyass white brain doesn't find it musically or intellectually interesting. In this, I am sure I resemble my father trying to get his head around Bob Dylan and not getting it. That said, I accept that I am an old white guy and I don't like con...