Unlike Christmas, which, being intended by the early Roman church to serve as a substitute for the Feast of Mithra, is always celebrated on December 25, the date of Easter moves around. That’s because, in order to maintain the necessary verisimilitude and congruence with the story found in the Gospels, Easter is supposed to occur… Continue reading Blood Moon Causes Widespread Lunacy
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Duck, Duck, Duck, Duck… Homophobic Racist!
I’m not generally a morning person, but when one of my clients wants a consultation in my downtown office at 6:00 AM, it’s my professional duty to be there, and this morning, I was. Very few of my clients are like that, however, so after completing a ninety minute meeting with a ramrod stiff colonel… Continue reading Duck, Duck, Duck, Duck… Homophobic Racist!
When Boy Scouts Go Gay, God’s Scouts Go High Tech
Tomorrow being Memorial Day, Cerise and I were busy at my home in Great Falls, Virginia, preparing for the cook out – as frequent readers of this Web log know, it’s a fairly big deal. That’s because when the family rotation of venues for holiday feasts falls to my place, all my relatives in the Washington… Continue reading When Boy Scouts Go Gay, God’s Scouts Go High Tech
We the Pinheads – White House Petition Site Overloads
Inauguration Day is this coming Monday, and Friday night, the roads around Washington DC were snarled with an extra couple of hundred thousand motorists, arriving here for the festivities. As someone who works in downtown DC and lives in Great Falls, Virginia, just west of the Capitol Beltway, I recognize the right of every American… Continue reading We the Pinheads – White House Petition Site Overloads
Zionist Leaders Contemplate Unholy Alliance to Defeat Hagel
My very first appointment last Friday morning (at a mind-numbing 6:30 a.m., I might add) was with Rabbi Mordechi Slivovitz, an august, erudite and truly imposing personage who also happens to be, among many, many other things, the current President of the Chosen Peoples’ Order of the Masada Machabee Martyrs, headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland. … Continue reading Zionist Leaders Contemplate Unholy Alliance to Defeat Hagel