Monday, January 09, 2006
Good health to him
I've been too busy to update lately, but let me just say one thing about the situation with Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon. Although I strongly disagreed with some of his policies - most particulalrly, the decades of settlement building - I hope he will recover and allow the democratic process to move forward.
Monday, December 26, 2005
A Note On Christmas From A Grinch
I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas . . . . It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a wasteful, disastrous subject; a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blasphemous and demoralizing subject. Christmas is forced on a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press: on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred; and anyone who looked back to it would be turned into a pillar of greasy sausages."Happy/Merry/Joyous Christmas/Hanukah/Kwanzaa/Festivus to everyone!
- George Bernard Shaw
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Class of 2008 president arrested in bank robberyIs that perfectly clear? The son-of-a-minister student body president of Lehigh U. robbed a bank! And one of the student senators drove the getaway car (albeit uniwttingly).
Class of 2008 president Greg Hogan was arrested Friday on charges of robbery, police said.
The robbery occurred at the Wachovia Bank at 943 Union Blvd. at 3:02 p.m. Hogan handed the teller a note that demanded money and said he had a weapon. Police haven’t confirmed if he had a weapon.
According to police, Hogan – the son of a Baptist minister – then left the bank with $2,871 and entered a black Ford Explorer owned and driven by Student Senate President Kip Wallen. Hogan was arrested Friday at 8:30 p.m. at Sigma Phi Epsilon -- both are brothers there.
Police said Hogan confessed that he robbed the bank. Wallen was questioned and released. He has maintained he was an unknowing accomplice.
Just look at this guy!
Oh, what nefarious intent lurked under that bow tie...
P.S. It appears a coca farmer has been elected president of Bolivia. Fancy that.
Sunday, December 18, 2005
When You Waste Paper, You're Writing a Love Note to Hitler
I've recently stumbled across a valuable site replete with priceless old propaganda posters (mostly from WWII). As for the posters themselves, some are straightforward:
Some are creepy:
And some are just damn funny:
I wish they still did propaganda like that. Nowadays, you won't hear exhortations from the government to conserve food or fuel. But it all reminds of an old story by James Thurber, which went like this:
The Very Proper Gander
Not so very long ago there was a very fine gander. He was strong and smooth and beautiful and he spent most of his time singing to his wife and children. One day somebody who saw him strutting up and down in his yard and singing remarked, "There is a very proper gander." An old hen overheard this and told her husband about it that night in the roost. "They said something about propaganda," she said. "I have always suspected that," said the rooster, and he went around the barnyard next day telling everybody that the very fine gander was a dangerous bird, more than likely a hawk in gander's clothing. A small brown hen remembered a time when at a great distance she had seen the gander talking with some hawks in the forest. "They were up to no good," she said. A duck remembered that the gander had once told him he did not believe in anything. "He said to hell with the flag, too," said the duck. A guinea hen recalled that she had once seen somebody who looked very much like the gander throw something that looked a great deal like a bomb. Finally everybody snatched up sticks and stones and descended on the gander's house. He was strutting in his front yard, singing to his children and his wife. "There he is!" everybody cried. "Hawk-lover! Unbeliever! Flag-hater! Bomb-thrower!" So they set upon him and drove him out of the country.
Moral: Anybody who you or your wife thinks is going to overthrow the government by violence must be driven out of the country.
Some are creepy:
And some are just damn funny:
I wish they still did propaganda like that. Nowadays, you won't hear exhortations from the government to conserve food or fuel. But it all reminds of an old story by James Thurber, which went like this:
The Very Proper Gander
Not so very long ago there was a very fine gander. He was strong and smooth and beautiful and he spent most of his time singing to his wife and children. One day somebody who saw him strutting up and down in his yard and singing remarked, "There is a very proper gander." An old hen overheard this and told her husband about it that night in the roost. "They said something about propaganda," she said. "I have always suspected that," said the rooster, and he went around the barnyard next day telling everybody that the very fine gander was a dangerous bird, more than likely a hawk in gander's clothing. A small brown hen remembered a time when at a great distance she had seen the gander talking with some hawks in the forest. "They were up to no good," she said. A duck remembered that the gander had once told him he did not believe in anything. "He said to hell with the flag, too," said the duck. A guinea hen recalled that she had once seen somebody who looked very much like the gander throw something that looked a great deal like a bomb. Finally everybody snatched up sticks and stones and descended on the gander's house. He was strutting in his front yard, singing to his children and his wife. "There he is!" everybody cried. "Hawk-lover! Unbeliever! Flag-hater! Bomb-thrower!" So they set upon him and drove him out of the country.
Moral: Anybody who you or your wife thinks is going to overthrow the government by violence must be driven out of the country.
Friday, December 09, 2005
Outfoxed Again
If that's illegible, it reads: "Economic Disaster if Liberals Win the 'War on Christmas'?"
Damn, they found us out...
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