Monthly Archives: May 2009

Home Grown Ideological Terrorism Makes a Martyr Out Of Dr. George Tiller

Dr. George Tiller was Shot to Death today. Tiller, a Kan­sas phy­si­cian, per­for­med late term abor­tions, one of the few phy­si­cian in the country to do so. He was found not guilty in March in a poli­ti­cally moti­va­ted trial where he was char­ged with 19 mis­de­mea­nors stem­ming from pro­ce­du­res he per­for­med, and in another

Henry VIII 1, Roman Catholic Church and Scientology 0, Pietasters 20.

Henry, or at least Liz, must be smi­ling with satis­fac­tion from the grave over the con­ti­nued rec­rui­ting suc­cess of the Angli­can Church, even their bas­tard branch. In this case, Epis­co­pa­lians get them­sel­ves a hot Latino cha­ris­ma­tic priest with a large tele­vi­sion fan base in Miami. Bet­ter to have a fiancée than a 10 year

Wednesday Wonderings, WTF’s and Sound Bites.

The Church of Scien­to­logy is on trial in France, accu­sed of “tar­ge­ting vul­ne­ra­ble peo­ple for com­mer­cial gain”. I’m not an expert on Scien­to­logy, know little of it except that Greta Van Sus­te­ren  —  FOX news semi talking-head for­merly of CNN  —  is one, as is her hus­band John Coale, a high ran­king Scien­tio­lo­gist and trial law­yer, was appoin­ted by

Everybody Knows It’s Old School Friday

The Old School Fri­day theme this week is “This One Is Dedi­ca­ted To”…
It’s almost impos­si­ble for me to think of anything for this. Not that I couldn’t dedi­cate songs to a num­ber of peo­ple but I usually don’t go there and I’m not going to this time, at least not really.
Not tech­ni­cally old school, it