I love Toast! cd A Toast! The humble, reliable toaster celebrates its 100th anniversary By E. Shan Correa Special to the Star-Bulletin THE ELECTRIC TOASTER is celebrating its 100th anniversary. Although my own toaster seems unaware of this milestone, a piece saluting such a significant accomplishment deserves to begin with an epigraph, so here it…
Month: February 2006
Chosen By God…Uganda
It doesn’t just happen in the third world……. This quote from the article struck me “Most of the world’s great despots at some stage claimed that God chose them,” Ugandan commentator Alan Tacca wrote. cd KAMPALA (Reuters) – Hundreds of born-again Christians drop their Bibles and begin singing songs hailing Uganda’s long-serving President Yoweri Museveni….
Death by Air Guitar Misadventure
This would be tragic if I could just stop laughing! The big question is who was he mimicking? Also, is ‘misadventure’ an acceptable cause of death? cd SINGAPORE (Reuters) – A teenage guitarist got so carried away while bouncing up and down on his bed mimicking a rock star that he flew out of a…
Columnist Nicholas Kristof Has Raised $727,568 To Send Bill O'Reilly To Darfur
The world is a better place with Nicholas Kristof in it. In a postscript to his regular New York Times column on Tusday, Nicholas Kristof reveals that he has raised almost three-quarters of a million dollars from readers to send Fox News host Bill O’Reilly to troubled Darfur. Kristof, embroiled in a public feud with…
Lap Dances for Jesus- A Porn Again Christian
I wonder whether Judge Punch would let her keep her kids? cd Former stripper not typical evangelical Associated Press RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Heather Veitch is not your typical evangelical Christian. The 31-year-old married mother of two visits one strip club a month, paying for lap dances so she can talk to the strippers about God….
Slack under Attack by Right Wing Judge
Well Friends, as a devotee of all things Slack and a long time friend of Bob, I am completely outraged to see that the only religion that makes any sense The Church of the Subgenius is being persecuted by an anal retentive pink boy of a judge. Bob has always led his followers to the…
Doctors halt 'painless' execution
Two anesthesiologists appointed by a California court to attend the execution of Michael Morales refused to participate. Normally doctors are not involved in executions – this situation came about because Morales’ lawyers argued that the drugs used for execution were likely to cause pain to their client. This follows the recent CA execution of Tookie…
Big Bowl of Bad-Cheney
Gidge just sent me this…Perfect. cd Letterman: Cheney is a Big Bowl of Bad- Video
Remembering Malcolm X
On Feb. 21, 1965, former Black Muslim leader Malcolm X was shot and killed by assassins identified as Black Muslims as he was about to address a rally in New York City; he was 39. Whether you liked him, hated him, or don’t know who he was, the truth of the matter is he was…
Unclaimed Baggage Center
Every once in a while I come across a commercial something or other that I think is pretty cool. I wish this place were closer to Hawaii. I’d like to check it out…If anyone lives nearby, take a trip and let me know what you find. Turns out they’ve found diamonds, a full suit of…