Citizens of Upright Moral Character

Goodbye Cruel World

This blog started in March 2003 - more than 4 years ago, with a post entirely lifted from another source - an interview with Kurt Vonnegut called "Kurt Vonnegut vs. the !*!@". I didn't know that wholesale lifting of entire articles was not entirely polite. I just wanted a spot to put news articles that I wanted my friends to see, so I wouldn't have to be a pest forwarding emails. In the...

GOP: Arrest Citizens with no review, Maybeeeee..

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/04/01/romney_giuliani/index.html

This is how administrations implode (Har Har Har):

Bush Clashes With Congress on Prosecutors By Sheryl Gay Stolberg The New York Times Wednesday 21 March 2007 Washington - President Bush and Congress clashed Tuesday over an inquiry into the firing of federal prosecutors and appeared headed toward a constitutional showdown over demands from Capitol Hill for internal White House documents and testimony from top advisers to the president.

wow

http://www.korea-dpr.com/media/kfahymn.swf I stumbled upon this website, and have looked at every single page of the glorious motherland. I am in awe. And you will be too. The Korean Friendship Association http://www.korea-dpr.com

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sly returns

a personal account of Sly Stone's appearance at the House of Blues in Anaheim on January 13, 2007 http://estnyboer.com/sly.htm

tee hee

http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i20/20c00201.htm

coq au basque

Coq au Basque A hybrid coq au vin and basque-style chicken. 1 whole chicken - the butcher will probably cut it up for you! 8 or so pearl onions, quartered 3-4 cloves garlic, pressed or finely chopped 6 or so sweet italian peppers (or red pepper/bell pepper mix) 8-10 mushrooms (brown are best) chopped fresh parsley bottle of cheep white wine 1/4-1/2 lb of ham, cut into strips (1/4" thick or so) tabasco sauce bacon fat or a couple slices of bacon flour mixed with salt,...

Repealing the MCA would be a nice way to start the year.

"Like the two entwining strands of the double helix, law and power form the genetic structure of government. Law is nothing but empty verbiage without power to back it up, enforce it, embody it. And power without law is nothing but a mad ape, baring its teeth, thumping its chest, raping and beating where it pleases, taking what it wants: a bestial thing, born in the muddy swamp of our lowest, blindest, rawest biochemical impulses. Disconnect these strands and things fall apart, as...

Father Michael Lapsley Sermon, SSM on Guy Fawkes Day Nov. 5

Evensong � Westminster Abbey,London, UK November 5 2006