Month April 2005

Calls for sainthood as Pope laid to rest THE LA Times this morning had about twenty pages this morning on the funeral, complete huge photos and in-depth articles on anything even tangentially related. Um, aren’t the calls for sainthood just a…

A raging Maoist insurgency. A wobbling, increasingly dictatorial government. For now, the cities are relatively calm, the countryside less so. Getting news is difficult. Here’s two good sites for Nepal news

I just rediscovered this song by Motorhead. It’s one of the truly great rants in rock and roll, plus the music is the band at their most ferocious, and that’s saying something. Orgasmatron I am the one, Orgasmatron, the outstretched…

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger retreated Thursday from his ambitious plan to convert the state pension system to private accounts, part of his sweeping agenda for change in state government. The initiative would have stripped public employees of death and disability benefits,…

How could I make up a story like this? Written April 22, 2003 Bush’s blood lust, his repeated commitment to Christian beliefs, and his constant references to “evil doers,” in the eyes of many devout Catholic leaders, bear all the…