Quotations: Blasts From the Past

A few words of wisdom from those who made this country great:

“You hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, ‘That man is a Red, that man is a communist!’ You never hear a real American talk like that.”–Mayor Frank Hague, Jersey [...]

Are You Embarassed by Your President?

Add outraged and fearful and sickened and appalled, and you have my feelings about George W. Bush in a nutshell. It goes beyond simply disagreeing with the man; the only way that he knows how to express himself is through cheap, arrogant bullying that represents the worst in the American character. He [...]

93 Years After the Triangle Fire

Today I attended the 93rd Annual Commemoration of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, just east of Washington Square Park.
Although the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire isn’t commonly known today except by historians and labor activists, we live with the results everyday. In 18 minutes on March 25, 1911, a fire rushing through the Triangle Shirtwaist factory killed [...]

The Lesser of Two Evils?

Okay, I’ve just about had it with the dilemma of making voting choices between stances like Kerry’s carefully rationalized cowardice and Bush’s incompetent fascism. This year, I’m going whole hog. Cthulhu for President! When you’re tired of voting for the lesser of two evils.

Mighty Cthulhu’s platform for Evil.

The tentacled one’s biography.

A new kink in the marriage debate…

Sandy Clarissa Gast, a 48-year-old transsexual, has been busted by the authorities of Leavenworth County, Kansas, for the horrific crime of filing for a marriage license. The official charges are described as “providing false information on an official document” — i.e., describing her gender as “female,” because despite the fact that she’s legally changed [...]

Ask Mullah

The April, 2004 issue of Harper’s has an item titled “Mullah, May I?” which reprints several questions submitted to a South African site which gives advice to Muslims the world over about the propriety of issues that include money, politics, sex, prayer, and marriage. The questions excerpted by Harper’s are specifically drawn from the [...]

Kissing and Pissing

Okay, now I have to admit that this is weird and screwed-up even to my sensibilities:
According to Yahoo, the men’s room in the Virgin Airways clubhouse at JFK Airport now boasts urinals in the shape displayed above: a woman’s open lips, decorated with bright-red, fuck-me lipstick. The urinals were designed by the Netherlands [...]

A New Definition of “Death Wish.”

As if the Southern Baptists hadn’t laid enough devastation on their own country, and the Middle East didn’t have enough fundamentalist fanatics of their own, Iraq’s post-Saddam legacy now includes this:
The first Baptist church ever established in Iraq was dedicated with more than 700 people in attendance. Leaders say the church, called the National Evangelical [...]