ANCIENT RITES AND RANTS (AND IMMORTAL BULLSHIT)

I've been wanting to do a post about the Red River Gorge for some time. It's one of the most worthwhile environmentalist success sto...

A new museum opening in Athens is designed expressly for the purpose of hastening the return to Greece of the Elgin Marbles, taken from Gre...

I'm not about to get all mushy and romanticize recent events in Iran, because frankly, I don't know what to think. Was it in reality...

From the website All Recipes comes this recipe for Granny's Gingersnap Cookies. Yes, I know this might be a better recipe for Yule, but...

Well, in a manner of speaking, since the magnificent sunset you might soon see, depending on where you live, might well be due to the recent...

This is an Alaska crime story , but the true culprits are the Supreme Court, and in what is a departure from the norm for me, I find myself ...

He walked straight into the Washington DC Holocaust Museum and proceeded to shoot to death a black security guard, whereupon he was himself ...

Probably the most anticipated movie of this summer (at least the most anticipated that's really worth seeing) features Sasha Baron Cohen...

Evidently there was a great deal of dissatisfaction with the revamped movie version starring Nicholas Cage from a few years ago, so some har...

Heather Graham claims to be a witch, or goddess worshiper, or something. In what would seem to mark her as something of a newbie (i.e., extr...

A "friend" decided to turn to Yahoo Answers for some advice, and hopefully at least one solution to a pressing problem "he&qu...

I would rather take a beating than sit through a whole night of David Letterman, or any late night comedian, and I suspect most regular peop...

According to a Venezuelan writer, oil is the devil's excrement. The Devil's Excrement is also the name of a blog, by a Venezuelan bl...

Al Gore should be like Ike. He should go to Korea . After all, as the founder and presumably the CEO of Current TV, he was the one responsib...

That's just one of the examples of the Worst And Saddest Questions sent to Yahoo Answers. From girls with ping pongs stuck up their pus...

Now I'm about as avid a gun-owner's advocate as anyone, and I am and always have been a steadfast supporter of the Second Amendment,...

How in the hell did anybody ever discover that you could achieve orgasm through suffocation? I have an idea this came about years before any...

I guess I haven't made myself clear. Although I am not about to lose one fucking second of sleep over it, I do not condone the murder of...

What did the late-term fetus say when he heard the news of the murder of abortion provider Doctor George Tiller? "Well, I can't say...

That's pretty much how I feel about the execution of late-term abortion provider Doctor Tiller, who was gunned down early today inside ...

Many of you are familiar with the insane radical Islamic cleric Omar Bhakri, whose rantings are to me akin to a bizarre comedy routine. If s...

A story making the rounds lately is flying pretty much under the radar outside the purview of the blogosphere. The network news seems strang...

I'm staying the hell away from political blogs for a while, maybe permanently. They seem filled with the moronic type of people that thi...

As I expected, there is a great deal of controversy over the upset victory of Christian Arkansas native Kris Allen over Goth rocker Adam La...

I posted this originally as a comment on the blog of Trotskyist Renegade Eye, but realized it would make a good blog post in its own right....

Adam Lambert deserves to win American Idol based on his talent, but he will either win it, or lose it, because he is gay. After all, if tal...

When Chrysler is finally restructured according to the Obama Administrations directives, the workers will control the means of production . ...

Now that Justice David Souter has announced his imminent retirement from the Supreme Court, it looks like President Obama will get a chance...

Not much to blog about lately, and I've been too busy to do much anyway, but in the meantime, I thought I might let my readers in on a f...

There has been a lot of talk lately about secession, but the most surprising example of this came during a tea party rally in Texas not too ...

Hope everyone had a good Beltane, and hope you have a good May Day. Beltane is the symbolic marriage of the goddess and the god in some path...

Wow, there sure was a dearth of astrological aspects in line for this year's Beltane. The only one of any real significance was around m...

Who better to represent the more positive aspects of the marriage of the goddess and the god at Beltane than two drug-addled and addicted mu...

Archaeologists may have discovered the burial site of Cleopatra and Marcus Antonius , living would-be deities of their time, somewhere near ...

I drew the Eight of Pentacles reversed for this Beltane Sabbat reading, which is somewhat disconcerting, though not necessarily bad. It sugg...

If I ever get rich I'm going to buy a condo in Louisville just so I'll have a place to stay during the Kentucky Derby. Hell, I'l...

Good news on the polar bear front. There are more of them than ever before, something like twenty thousand of them, and even better news for...