Category Archives: Obituary
I don’t Mourn for Jesse Helms
I have to say this is one passing I will not mourn. I thoroughly disliked senator Jesse Helms. A nastier fighter for the right never existed once a Helms campaign commercial showed a white fist crumbling up a job application, … Continue reading
He Has Died
Many Years ago I was on a blog and debating a topic I have long since forgotten. However during the comment conversation, one participant noted that Arthur C Clarke was not much of a writer and was likely dead so … Continue reading
The Moral Majority Mourns
Jerry Laymon Falwell, Sr. , the evangelical minister who founded the Moral Majority, the Christian right political movement, in 1980 died Tuesday at age 73. Although I have said many hateful things about Mr Falwell over the years I have … Continue reading
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Goodbye Kilgore Trout
If I was to describe a person as a self destructive, chain smoking, deliberately bizarre social critic, religious skeptic and freethinking humanist, who would “say anything to be funny, often in the most horrible situations,” You might think I was … Continue reading
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