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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)
(18 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 22, 2009 Limbaugh: I Hope Obama Fails
The spokesman for angry white males who thinks James Earl Ray should be given a Medal of Honor wants Obama to fail.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 4, 2006 Limbaugh rushes firmly behind Foley
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.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 21, 2006 O brother Billy Graham, where art thou?
A public appeal to the Rev. Billy Graham to speak up again on the dangers of the religious right.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, November 4, 2006 Hey W., Rumsfeld has got to go
Bubba gives Dubya the low-down poop on Donald Rumsfeld and Bob Woodward's "State of Denial"
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 7, 2007 Pity Ann Coulter
Hell for Ann Coulter is a place without mirrors or anyone to notice her.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, June 30, 2006 The Devil's Diary: Rape the Earth for God
Ann Coulter must think God is a sadistic voyeur because she once said that God wants us to rape the earth.
SHARE Friday, April 14, 2006 Stop Using the Bible to Hate Gays
If the Christian Right wants to claim the Bible then they need to start practing love and tolerance instead of hate and bigotry.
(5 comments) SHARE Friday, December 22, 2006 America goes to Pot and Prisons
Marijuana is now America's number one cash crop despite the decades-old war on drugs.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, May 5, 2006 Beat those Kids for Jesus
Child abusers love to use religion and the Bible to execuse their actions but how do they excuse their actions?
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 8, 2009 Serve this, Laura Bush
With the purchase of new china, maybe George and Laura Bush should compare themselves with Louis the Last and Marie Antoinette.
(12 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 27, 2007 Watch Ann Coulter Squirm
Ann Coulter squirms and hisses like a cornered snake when confronted by Elizabeth Edwards on Chris Matthews' Hardball.
SHARE 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.
SHARE Friday, November 20, 2009 Rogue en Vogue
Has Sarah Palin gone rogue with the meaning of rogue?
SHARE Thursday, October 9, 2008 A Song for Sarah
McCain/Palin are having a hard time finding a campaign song. May I suggest one?
SHARE Wednesday, June 21, 2006 Did Puck zap you, Bill O'Reilly
Did Bill OReilly 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 Bills ears are starting to grow very long?
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, March 31, 2008 What if Rev. Wright had said . . . ?
As polemical as remarks made were by Barack Obama's minister, they pale in comparison to comments from prominent American conservatives.
SHARE 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"
SHARE Saturday, June 17, 2006 Thirty Clues about Guess Who?
Histrionic sociopathic Narcissists are now commonplace among pundits, politicians and preachers.
SHARE 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.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, October 6, 2006 Pop a mint, Newt
Newt Gingrich says something stinks about Democrats questioning the Foley scandal. What Newt is actually smelling is right under his nose.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 11, 2006 Prayer in Public and Schools
Right wing Christians slander Jesus when they use his name to promote public and school prayer. My father was a Holiness Baptist preacher. Son, he said, dont ever let anybody ever make you pray. Especially dont let the government. They havent got a bit of business in trying to teach you how to pray. God knows we dont need the government messing up prayer like it has everything else.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, June 26, 2006 The Devil's Diary
Imagine how the devil could delight if only he kept a journal.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 20, 2006 Pat Buchanan asks "Where are the Christians?"
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
SHARE 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.
SHARE 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.
SHARE Saturday, May 13, 2006 Kierkegaard the Keen
A selection of choice quotes from Kierkegaard on real Christianity versus Christendom.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, October 1, 2006 Segregationists begat the Religious Right
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.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 26, 2006 The Founding Fathers vs. the Confounding Bothers
What the founding fathers had to say about separation of church and state is very different than what is claimed by the religious right.
SHARE Sunday, May 7, 2006 Kill those Sinners for Jesus
The "Left Behind" fundamentalist series of doomsday novels will soon add a graphically violent video game to its arsenal.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 29, 2007 Fight, Republicans, Fight
How stimulating was last night's Republican presidential debacle.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 13, 2006 Holiness 101: A Primer for Ann Coulter
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.
(7 comments) SHARE Monday, January 21, 2008 How Goes the Dream?
Judge yourself where we stand today on fulfilling Dr. King's words.
SHARE Thursday, April 13, 2006 Jesus' Family Values
Jesus is more a role model for alternative family values than "traditional" values.
SHARE Sunday, April 23, 2006 The Profanity of the "Religious Wrong"
The religious right often violates the 4th commandment of taking God's name in vain for everything from selling used tires to politics.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 5, 2006 Republicans blame everybody but Foley
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.
SHARE Sunday, April 30, 2006 "Jesus would be just another Hippie"
If they didn't think that Jesus could kick ass, Christian zealots wouldn't have a thing to do with Jesus other than to persecute him.
SHARE Monday, January 15, 2007 Rev. King the Peacemaker
It's an eternal dream that had the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 25, 2008 So? In Dick's Head
So: one two-lettered word sums up the imperial Republican presidency.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, April 10, 2006 Is America a Christian Nation?
Does the religious right really want a Christian nation? After all, Jesus was a liberal who is far better a role model for the left than the right.
SHARE Thursday, May 11, 2006 The Faces of Heaven and Hell
"thank you for hiding the truth from those who think themselves so wise, and for revealing it to little children."
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 23, 2006 The Religious Right to fight tolerance programs for Gays and Lesbians
"If the religious right wants to argue that their religion requires them to condemn and discriminate, thats perfectly suitable in accordance with the freedom of speech that we liberals were thoughtful enough to incorporate in the constitution that we wrote."
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 21, 2007 Bush's bottom breached: Cheney takes top position
President Bush underwent a routine colonoscopy today and transferred power to Dick Cheney. Comedians are going to have a field day.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 3, 2007 Mission Accomplished for bin Laden?
Osama bin Laden's mission is being accomplished in large part due to Bush's incompetence.
SHARE Sunday, May 14, 2006 Angels' Day
Show love, don't tell. Don't all our notions of divine love come from the intimacy of love we experienced as children?
SHARE Thursday, April 27, 2006 How Come They Don't Fight Holy Wars with Prayers?
Zealots believe that they need to go ahead and do what God would do if only God knew the facts as the fanatics did and God had as much time on his hands as they do.
SHARE 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.
SHARE Tuesday, January 1, 2008 Be the Change in '08
Had enough of making and breaking trivial New Year resolutions?
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, June 10, 2006 Jezebel calls Coulter Classless and Shameless
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.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 16, 2006 Jesus as role model for Liberals
Make the best of what you have got and Jesus is certainly the best of what we Americans have got to work with in appealing to the values of the average American.
SHARE Wednesday, April 19, 2006 Thou Shall Covet
While the right puts on a grand show of wanting to display the Ten Commandments, do they really want Americans not to be greedy, indulgent consumers"?
SHARE Thursday, May 25, 2006 Jesus was a Liberal. Are You?
If you look at the definition of a liberal then Jesus better fits that description than he does that of conservative.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, April 24, 2006 What if a Liberal said . . .?
The religious right get away with saying things that would get liberals tarnished and denigrated.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 14, 2006 It's about Time
The real scandal is not Ann Coulter's but the mainstream media that has nurtured her hate.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, May 29, 2006 Exposing Mammon's Watchdogs
The Mainstream Media has acted more like a lapdog to the Republicans than as a watchdog for democracy.