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B. 1952, GA, USA. D. To Be Determined. Beloved husband, father, grandfather, lover, confidant and friend of many from bikers to Zen masters; American writer and speaker, known for his criticism of Mammon's unholy trinity of big business, big government and big religion; served the least of them professionally as psychologist and voluntarily as activist for decades; loved to shoot basketball, billiards and the bull; lived free, died game. (memorial sketch by davidhewsonart.com)

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Friday, November 20, 2009
Rogue en Vogue
Has Sarah Palin gone rogue with the meaning of rogue?

Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Better Dead Than Red : Burn Your Medicare Card in Protest
(4 comments) Don't die socialist. Burn your Medicare enrollment card before it's too late.

Thursday, January 22, 2009
Limbaugh: I Hope Obama Fails
(18 comments) The spokesman for angry white males who thinks James Earl Ray should be given a Medal of Honor wants Obama to fail.

Thursday, January 8, 2009
Serve this, Laura Bush
(3 comments) With the purchase of new china, maybe George and Laura Bush should compare themselves with Louis the Last and Marie Antoinette.

Thursday, October 9, 2008
A Song for Sarah
McCain/Palin are having a hard time finding a campaign song. May I suggest one?

Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Cartoon: Bailing out the Greedy
is like Saving the Needy

Friday, September 5, 2008
Palin: conservative Christian or women's libber(al)
Conservative Christians have come a long way, baby.

Monday, July 7, 2008
Whistling Dixie with Jesse Helms
What will Senator No reap in the after life?

Monday, March 31, 2008
What if Rev. Wright had said . . . ?
(5 comments) As polemical as remarks made were by Barack Obama's minister, they pale in comparison to comments from prominent American conservatives.

Tuesday, March 25, 2008
So? In Dick's Head
(1 comments) So: one two-lettered word sums up the imperial Republican presidency.

Monday, March 10, 2008
Run, Dick, Run
(4 comments) Why is Dick Cheney breaking tradition by not running for President?

Monday, January 21, 2008
How Goes the Dream?
(7 comments) Judge yourself where we stand today on fulfilling Dr. King's words.

Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Be the Change in '08
Had enough of making and breaking trivial New Year resolutions?

Wednesday, December 12, 2007
What are Conservatives Conserving?
(4 comments) Just whose traditional values are conservatives preserving?

Thursday, November 29, 2007
Fight, Republicans, Fight
(4 comments) How stimulating was last night's Republican presidential debacle.

Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Media for the Masses, not amassed media monopolization
(1 comments) Help stop the Clobber Barons from monopolizing media outlets

Monday, November 26, 2007
If America is a Christian nation then why isn't America more Christlike?
(14 comments) Does the religious right really want America to be Christlike?

Thursday, September 27, 2007
Help Stop A Potential Massacre in Myanmar
(2 comments) Sign a petition. Send an email to Myanmar's dictator. Do something now before it's too late..

Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Hey, Senator Kerry, Answer the Nagging Questions
(1 comments) Ready to email and ask John Kerry to answer Andrew Meyer's questions?

Saturday, September 8, 2007
Watch bumbling Bush bungle and fumble down below
WARNING: This video contains raw and graphic stupidity inflicted upon non-consenting adults.

Thursday, September 6, 2007
To Flee or Not to Flee: Larry Craig's Question
Something is rotten in the head of the dumb mark and it sure does sell.

Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Whoopi Goldberg defends Michael Vick: he's from the south
(5 comments) Stop already with the southern stereotypes!

Friday, August 31, 2007
Tony Snow gotta go for the dough
Tony Slow becomes the third to exit the White house this month.

Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Yet another gay-bashing Republican goes down
(14 comments) Does GOP stand for Gay Ol' Pharisees?

Monday, August 20, 2007
Dick Cheney: America shouldn't invade Iraq
(1 comments) Watch Cheney explain why it would be a disaster to topple Saddam.

Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Turd Blossom Rove Poops Out: Bush's chronic cognitive dissonance continues constipating
(3 comments) Who will shield Bush now that his chief strategist and enabler Karl Rove is sashaying off into the sunset?

Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Hey, Bill O'Reilly: Put up or shut up
(7 comments) Bill O'Reilly is to cleaning-up hate speech what infection is to pus.

Saturday, July 21, 2007
Bush's bottom breached: Cheney takes top position
(1 comments) President Bush underwent a routine colonoscopy today and transferred power to Dick Cheney. Comedians are going to have a field day.

Friday, July 13, 2007
The United Sicko State of Mammon
Greed is good and altruism is evil in the land of Mammon.

Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Watch Ann Coulter Squirm
(12 comments) Ann Coulter squirms and hisses like a cornered snake when confronted by Elizabeth Edwards on Chris Matthews' Hardball.

Wednesday, June 6, 2007
War is Peace
Howard Zinn's "A Power governments cannot suppress" is an impassioned compassionate appeal to we the people to become we the government so that we might finally have liberty and justice for all.

Friday, June 1, 2007
Left Out
(6 comments) What will it take for Jesus' radical anti-greed and social justice message to be heard today?

Thursday, May 3, 2007
Mission Accomplished for bin Laden?
(1 comments) Osama bin Laden's mission is being accomplished in large part due to Bush's incompetence.

Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Pat Buchanan blames too much tolerance for Cho's killing rampage
Add tolerance to the latest simplistic conservative explanations for Cho's behavior.

Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Are Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh to blame for Cho's massacre at Virginia Tech?
(3 comments) Imagine the reaction if liberal politicians and pundits were blaming conservatives like Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh and other conservatives are blaming liberals for Cho's massacre at Virginia Tech.

Sunday, April 22, 2007
Cho's Show & the Sorry State of Homeland Security
(5 comments) Who's responsible for mass targeted violence in the United States?

Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Pity Ann Coulter
(3 comments) Hell for Ann Coulter is a place without mirrors or anyone to notice her.

Monday, January 15, 2007
Rev. King the Peacemaker
It's an eternal dream that had the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Monday, January 1, 2007
Peace and the pursuit of happiness
(1 comments) World peace begins at home.

Friday, December 22, 2006
America goes to Pot and Prisons
(5 comments) Marijuana is now America's number one cash crop despite the decades-old war on drugs.

Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Does Mel Gibson's Apocalypto aid and abet al-Qaeda?
(2 comments) Just what the devil is the point of Gibson's galore of gore?

Sunday, December 3, 2006
What violent video game would Jesus play today?
None, thank you.

Sunday, November 19, 2006
Will gay unfriendly Southern Baptists expel King James?
(8 comments) Would Queen James be allowed to attend a Southern Baptist Church?

Friday, November 17, 2006
Michael Moore or Southern Baptists: who acts more Christian?
(5 comments) Love or condemn thy enemies: which is the Christian thing to do?

Tuesday, November 14, 2006
A Liberal American Agenda
(8 comments) Meet the new vision, same as the original

Friday, November 10, 2006
Bush plays the press to perfection
Mammon's Syndicated Media loves to shine a most favorable light on George W. Bush

Saturday, November 4, 2006
Hey W., Rumsfeld has got to go
(2 comments) Bubba gives Dubya the low-down poop on Donald Rumsfeld and Bob Woodward's "State of Denial"

Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Flush Rush's Gushes
Rush Limbaugh accusing Michael J. Fox of malingering is but his latest outburst of acute acrimonious verbal diarrhea.

Sunday, October 22, 2006
Hannity to Democrats: Stay home because your vote doesn't matter anyway
(5 comments) Fair and balanced Fox News' Sean Hannity says Democrats should not vote "for the sake of the nation."

Thursday, October 19, 2006
Hey Bill, are you scared to let Jeff Cohen back on the O'Reilly Factor?
(4 comments) Damn if my knees wouldn't be knocking after reading Cohen's new expose, Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media

Monday, October 16, 2006
Time to stop beating around the Bush
"Keep the course" is Bush-speak for "I'll get my way, no matter what it takes." No, George, for once in your life, you are going to be restrained and held accountable.

Wednesday, October 11, 2006
If Foley was only a Democrat named Clinton
(4 comments) Mark Foley better be glad he wasn't a Democrat caught having sex with a consenting adult female.

Monday, October 9, 2006
If God talks to Bush then why is Karl Rove an agnostic?
(1 comments) Republican inconsistencies are confounding.

Friday, October 6, 2006
Pop a mint, Newt
(1 comments) Newt Gingrich says something stinks about Democrats questioning the Foley scandal. What Newt is actually smelling is right under his nose.

Thursday, October 5, 2006
Republicans blame everybody but Foley
(3 comments) Poor, helpless Republicans can't do a thing wrong without it being mean old liberals' fault for either causing them to do it or for otherwise pointing it out as wrong.

Wednesday, October 4, 2006
Limbaugh rushes firmly behind Foley
(1 comments) In "thinking out loud" and claiming that he was not offering any defense of Foley, Rush Limbaugh claimed that the Democrats set up the entire frigging Foley affair to win elections in November.

Tuesday, October 3, 2006
Have the Republicans adopted Clinton's "Don't ask, Don't tell" policy?
(3 comments) The Republicans seem to have adopted the "don't ask, don't tell" policy for their nobles in Washington but not for us commoners.

Sunday, October 1, 2006
Segregationists begat the Religious Right
(2 comments) Randall Balmer's new history shows how the religious right originated among segregationists and how the religious right has distorted the Bible and history to promote its radical agenda.

Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Hey, Don Bill Quijote O'Reilly de la Manchada, let me review your book
Don Quijote has met his replacement in "Culture Warrior," Bill O'Reilly's new fictional nonfiction book.

Monday, September 25, 2006
Are the Republicans finally ready to endorse Martin Luther King, Jr.?
(1 comments) Or would the neo-con Republicans more than ever think that Dr. King was a communist?

Thursday, September 21, 2006
O brother Billy Graham, where art thou?
(2 comments) A public appeal to the Rev. Billy Graham to speak up again on the dangers of the religious right.

Monday, September 18, 2006
If you can read this, thank a Liberal
A key feature of liberalism is the right of the individual to know.

Thursday, August 31, 2006
An Open Letter to Frances Rice and the National Black Republican Association
The chairman of the National Black Republican Association accuses me of trying to violate her civil rights as a black female veteran.

Thursday, August 24, 2006
Republicans claim Martin Luther King, Jr. as their Own
(1 comments) The Republicans have become anything but conservative when it comes to revising history to suit their opportunism.

Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Talking Right: A Guide to Neo-Con Doubletalk in Double Time
Linguist Geoffrey Nunberg tells How Conservatives Turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show.

Tuesday, August 8, 2006
Chomsky challenges America's Double Standards
Chomsky calls America on the Carpet.

Sunday, August 6, 2006
Neal Boortz wins Mammon's Distinguished Service Award
Boortz goes beyond the call-of-duty in promoting the love of money.

Thursday, August 3, 2006
The Devil relays Osama's Thanks to George W.
(1 comments) Osama is truly grateful for all that Dubya has done promoting al-Qaeda's objectives.

Monday, July 31, 2006
The Devil tells Mel Gibson: "There'll be hell to pay for this one"
(1 comments) A drunk but "in control of his senses" Mel Gibsons declares that "Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world."

Sunday, July 30, 2006
And the Devil of Media Hype for the Week of July 23 is . . .
The Mainstream Media has become hate waves.

Friday, July 28, 2006
Tom Delay declares Democrats' first instinct is to Cut and Run
(6 comments) Delay all but calls Democrats cowards.

Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Michelle Malkin alleges that Peace Activists have gone Wild
(3 comments) Michelle Malkin searches the world over to find "proof" of "unhinged" pacifists full of anger and hypocrisy.

Monday, July 24, 2006
And the Devil of Media Hype for the Week of July 16 is . . .
(2 comments) The competition has hellishly heated up this week as word of the coveted award spread like hellfire among right-wing pundits.

Thursday, July 20, 2006
Pat Buchanan asks "Where are the Christians?"
(3 comments) Some 3000 conservative Christians are wearing their best sheepskins to Washington to tell Congress that Israel and America's agendas are one and the same. "Israel is not the problem. Israel is the solution." Tom DeLay

Wednesday, July 19, 2006
John Stossel is Inducted into Mammon's Hall of Fame
(1 comments) ABC's John Stossel is recognized for years of dedicated service to Mammon and the Mammonization of America.

Tuesday, July 18, 2006
The Devil Threatens to Sue John Dean for Revealing Trade Secrets
(1 comments) Mammon claims Dean has illegally disclosed closely guarded proprietary rights of mass manipulation and political persuasion.

Friday, July 14, 2006
And the Devil of the Week for Media Hype is . . .
Which media pundit was the meanest and rashest this week?

Thursday, July 13, 2006
How the Religious Right Hijacked Jesus in Broad Daylight
Dan Wakefield shows how the religious right commandeered Jesus in "The Hijacking of Jesus: How the Religious Right Distorts Christianity and Promotes Prejudice and Hate"

Monday, July 10, 2006
Ann, Ann, plagiarist, Stole some lines, and a book did write?
(2 comments) Charges of plagiarism are plaguing poor little Ann Coulter as she sits eating her curds and whey.

Friday, July 7, 2006
Sweet Jesus, Bill O'Reilly, Somebody Hates You Enough to Write a Book
Bill O'Reilly really doesn't want to read "Sweet Jesus, I Hate Bill O'Reilly" by Joseph Minton Amann and Tom Breuer from Nation Books.

Thursday, July 6, 2006
The Terrible Beast in the Temple (and Marketplace and Statehouse)
A diabolic review of Kevin Phillip's "American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century"

Tuesday, July 4, 2006
The Devil's Diary: The forgotten 4th of July
It's a big white lie that Europeans brought democracy to America.

Monday, July 3, 2006
The Devil's Diary: O'Reilly and liberal "bomb-throwers"
Bill O'Reilly loves to call his liberal critics and opponents bomb-throwers. The devil advocates for the underlying realpolitik rationale.

Friday, June 30, 2006
The Devil's Diary: Rape the Earth for God
(2 comments) Ann Coulter must think God is a sadistic voyeur because she once said that God wants us to rape the earth.

Wednesday, June 28, 2006
The Devil's Diary: Memo to O'Reilly re: "Fighting Fair"
The Devil praises O'Reilly for not fighting fair and providing a rotten role model for America's youth.

Monday, June 26, 2006
The Devil's Diary
(1 comments) Imagine how the devil could delight if only he kept a journal.

Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Did Puck zap you, Bill O'Reilly
Did Bill O’Reilly really say that he would rule Iraq like Saddam Hussein? Was Bill giving a de facto endorsement of Saddam? Am I having a bad Midsummer Nightmare and Bill’s ears are starting to grow very long?

Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Does “Bully Pulpit” mean anything to you, Bill O’Reilly?
Imagine that havoc a bully could do if only allowed to have a national pulpit.

Monday, June 19, 2006
Is Godot your middle name, Bill O’Reilly?
We're still waiting to see Media Matters, Greg Palast and Helen Thomas on the O'Reilly Factor, Bill.

Saturday, June 17, 2006
Thirty Clues about Guess Who?
Histrionic sociopathic Narcissists are now commonplace among pundits, politicians and preachers.

Thursday, June 15, 2006
Why Did You Sit There Like A Dummy, George Carlin?
(2 comments) George Carlin needs to promptly challenge Ann Coulter to a real debate or consider conceding being a sell out.

Wednesday, June 14, 2006
It's about Time
(1 comments) The real scandal is not Ann Coulter's but the mainstream media that has nurtured her hate.

Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Holiness 101: A Primer for Ann Coulter
(3 comments) Ann Coulter is reported to not be known at the church she claims to attend. Maybe she needs a bit of help in learning the basics of holiness.

Sunday, June 11, 2006
Helen Thomas and the Watchdogs of the Golden Bull
(1 comments) Helen Thomas's new book shows how the mainstream media has miserably failed democracy.

Saturday, June 10, 2006
Jezebel calls Coulter “Classless and Shameless”
(2 comments) In an exclusive interview from hell with Psychic News Network, Jezebel reveals that she thinks God isn't treating her fairly when compared to Ann Coulter.

Friday, June 9, 2006
The Palast Paladins vs. Coulter's Crusaders
Imagine a fantasy baseball game between the Palast Paladins - the All Stars of the Liberal League - versus Coulter's Crusaders - the All Farts of the Bush League - for the championship of the press.

Wednesday, June 7, 2006
Saint Ann Coulter, the Vestal Virgin Defender of the Faith?
(6 comments) Ann Coulter loves to start a fight. Now she's doing it in the name of religion.

Monday, June 5, 2006
Will You Invite Helen Thomas on The O'Reilly Factor, Bill?
Helen Thomas' new book gives the low-down on how the press has better served the current administration rather than democracy.

Friday, June 2, 2006
Thanks to Bork and Scalia I'm Still Waiting on O’Reilly
It's time to reinstate the FCC's Fairness Doctrine for Mainstream Media

Thursday, June 1, 2006
Media Matters Responds; Still Waiting on O'Reilly
Media Matters has responded to a call for a live on-air sit down with Bill O'Reilly, who has yet to respond.

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