Archive for the 'death' Category
Call Me Classless…
… but after returning from a bluegrass festival and seeing the outpouring of grief over Tim “Pumpkinhead” Russert and calls for civility, I’m wondering what the big deal is.
The guy was a classic example of the banality of evil, a fat backslapping bloviator who was probably a nice guy, but who was also Dick Cheney’s […]
CIGNA: The Heartless Company, the Shame of Philadelphia
Heartless:
CIGNA’s decision to deny teen a liver transplant until it was too late highlights flaws in health care system.
When insurance company officials arbitrarily denied a California patient life-preserving care recommended by her doctor, the case provoked outrage and inspired the hope that medical coverage for all citizens can eventually become law.
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Sarkisyan had battled leukemia for […]
On Nothing
I think I really shocked my friend Alex last night when I conceded that I don’t believe in anything, and I am utterly faithless in both God (which doesn’t exist) and humanity (which doesn’t deserve to exist). You’re born, you live about 80 years, you die. End of story. No afterlife.
“You mean you […]
Kurt Waldheim the Nazi is Dead
Kurt Waldheim is dead.
The lying Nazi pig and former President of Hitler’s Homeland (Austria, not Germany as many believe) is dead.
Burn, motherfucker, burn.
Read More..>>Steve Gilliard, RIP
Steve Gilliard’s gone.
It’s a sad day: I’ll always value his analyses of the war in Iraq, especially his deep knowledge of military history.
I have yet to see one of his predictions not come to pass.
Fooling Themselves
I am not now, and have never been, a Christian. It’s not out of some sort of antipathy toward the faith, at least not initially: I wasn’t raised in a religious family, and as my father’s atheism was often a topic on long car trips, I became a skeptic quite early in life.
However, recent […]
Oil for Blood! Oil for Blood!
Remember back in 2003 when everyone marched through DC and NYC chanting “No Blood for Oil”, only to be roundly ignored by just about everyone in power?
“No Blood for Oil” accurately expressed our resistance to the war: it was clear that one of the main reasons for going to Iraq was to steal secure the […]
An Early Jerry Falwell Memory
Back in 1984-1985, I was in my first hardcore band. We went through a number of name changes before we decided on Nerve (our guitar player Chris Shea came up with that one).
One of my best friends at the time, Kelly Bray, was our singer, though the two of us wrote songs […]
Ding Dong, the Dick is Dead.
Jerry Falwell, one of the most senior of the American Taliban and leader of the so-called “Moral Majority”, has gone to meet his make, Satan, effective 1:37 today.
Far be it from me to rejoice at the untimely death of someone I despise… oh, who am I kidding. Jerry Falwell kicked the bucket […]
Sad Today
One of my friends gave birth to an extremely premature baby last October: he was only 24.5 weeks or so. As you may imagine the little guy has struggled ever since. I don’t believe he’s ever been out of the hospital, and his short life has been nothing but heart problems, pulmonary problems, […]
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