Untouchable
We’re talking about a truly atrocious headline. But while we’re on the subject, should I be offended because I was never groped by a priest when I was a kid? Maybe I was an ugly child. Maybe I didn’t put out the right vibes. Maybe it’s this big, honking nose. I feel so overlooked. As far as I can remember, I never even had a teacher who touched me inappropriately. You can be honest with me, people. Is it because I looked like Blossom?
I don’t have enough information to attack the Catholic faith and the hidden tradition of child abuse. Most of you know I have no real stance on religion or athiesm at all. I just dig this headline. And I still wonder why I was never touched.
Church to probe priest who fondled Foley
ROME — A Roman Catholic diocese has opened an investigation into a priest who said he fondled Mark Foley and shared saunas while naked when the former U.S. congressman was a boy in Florida.
In interviews in the past two days, Rev. Anthony Mercieca, 69, who is now with a diocese on an island off Malta, has given different details about his encounters with Foley four decades ago.
On Wednesday, he told the Sarasota Herald-Tribune by telephone that he massaged the boy in the nude, was naked in the same room on overnight trips with him and had gone skinny dipping with him. On Thursday, he told The Associated Press that he was naked in a sauna with Foley. Also Thursday, he told WPTV of West Palm Beach, Fla., that he touched Foley “once, maybe.”
Herb said,
October 23, 2006 at 6:47 am
Come here Mark, old boy. I’ll put you in a dress and have my way with you.
Linda said,
October 23, 2006 at 6:50 am
I think that priest is living in a fantasy. He WISHES he was naked in a sauna with Foley. Kind of like a mannequin fetish — obsess about it long enough and you might forget it’s not real.
What a jerk, either way.
brenda said,
October 23, 2006 at 10:18 am
“I just dig this headline:
Church to probe priest who fondled Foley”
oh! I get it! ha!
Mandy, the obit writer said,
October 23, 2006 at 10:46 am
I know this is slightly off topic, but while the paper I work for has not had a headline that atrocious, sexual innuendo has crept in from time to time. Just recently, a poor cropping job on a map graphic led to the creation of the “Anal Walk” on a Richmond area trail, and several years ago our sports section had this classic headline: “Captains’ Wood coming up big.”
Linda said,
October 23, 2006 at 11:02 am
Mandy that’s not off topic at all! I think it’s our favorite topic. Tell us more!
brenda said,
October 23, 2006 at 11:37 am
” And I still wonder why I was never touched” ?????
maybe, maybe, maybe
you were fortunate to not be left alone with mentally/ chemically unbalanced adults,
and maybe also,
maybe you didn’t appeal to those mentally unbalanced people because
maybe, you didn’t have the type of personality that they look for in a victim?
maybe?
I was thinking this weekend about my uncle kent. (May he rest in peace) He was paranoid- schizophrenic, and when I was very young, in the bathroom of Grampa’s & Grammy’s house, he taught me to keep my teeth covered by my lips, you know what I mean.
well, my mother & my aunt don’t like me to speak of this.
I was remembering the time, when I was 19, I was at my aunt’s house, and my uncle kent had escaped/ run away from the place where he lived, and had been drinking some beer, which is really not good for a schizophrenic person to do. When he was done with his drinking weekender, he managed to find his way to his sister’s house & wait for the police to come & return him to his boarding home or group home where he was supposed to be. I went in the kitchen and talked to him, I wanted to get a feeling of what a schizophrenic person is like.
He acknowledged what he had done to me, without denial or excuses, and he did seem to be aware that he was looking at a grown person whom he had done wrong to as a child, and he acknowledged that it did happen & that he knew it was wrong. He said he does things that are wrong, sometimes he cannot stop himself, when he hears the voices. I asked about the voices, what do they say? He said the voices say bad things, when I asked what kind of bad things, he said, they say things about sex & violence. I remember looking into his face, and feeling very uncomfortable, and wondering why would sex & violence be linked? How could sex & violence have anything to do with one another?
(As far as having “victim” issues, I let go of it then & there, because I saw that he was crazy and I didn’t hold it against him. I should have not been left alone with him, but I am not angry about that either, it was a mistake, bad judgement, it’s forgiven…..nobody else really knew what happened except me & the 2 of my uncles who were involved)
Anyway, as the decades have passed, I have seen more & more of our society using the combination of violence & sex as “entertainment” – and noticed with dismay that you can take a kid to an R-rated movie where someone is raped, where sex is often used in violent contexts, but a movie about sex itself, without the violence, is considered inappropriate for kids to see.
I recently received another forward of a religious email that keeps coming around, but I noticed someone added a quote- from the Marquis de Sade!
And you know, sometimes religion allows the very mentality that is this mental & social sickness.
I’m sure you all know who Marquis de Sade was? The father of S&M /B&D. There is a mentality, a world view, that I find overlaps between some religious thinking & the sado-masochistic, dominance/submission world view, and that email brought it right out.
I told a person close to me, and she said, yeah, I know, that can happen- Sex can lead to violence. (I said it doesn’t have to be that way) Well, she’s a person who is very much more affiliative than I am, and every interaction seems to be a struggle of power & manipulation. I’ve watched her complain of being victimised in a relationship that she had been the aggressor until she got what she was going after- and became a victim of it- and I don’t know all the details but always suspected that she’d created her own problems ovewr & over. I didn’t mean to be unsympathetic, but it occurred to me that it was HER script…….
Isn’t there a point where we take responsibility for our own script? Well, it came through past experiences, and yeah, maybe that person who has internalised the S/M/ dominance – submission script, the only alternative they know is to become balanced between dominating & submitting, to atone for abuse by being abused, and to revenge victimisation by victimising.
This is compatible with embracing another’s suffering as redemptive. Submitting to God, to religious “authority” figures, a wife to the husband, etc.
To believe oneself as inherently bad & needing to be dead to self & reborn.
And I’ve seen that psychosis is the loss of the center, the loss of one’s own core self & inability to trust of one’s perceptions, thoughts & feelings -at the basis of mental illness, such as schizophrenia……
There are different sets of vocabulary for the same dynamics.
But what if one rejects the whole paradigm?
Ironically, my schizophrenic uncle, in that moment of acknowledging his past actions, was more real than other nice people I know (who seem to me to be) creating false realities & working so hard to protect their good self images that they can barely stand still without shaking or squirming, aching or drooping….
You can’t hold up a false face in the presence of Truth.
Alone, I stand upon the Earth on my own feet, face uncovered to the Sky, Spirit of Truth knows who I am. I don’t need anybody’s permission to pray, to believe in what is real, to tell the truth, I know who I am.
May all our masks be halloween costumes!!!!
;~}
newsflasher said,
October 23, 2006 at 12:02 pm
TACOMA, Wash. – A man accused of having sex with the family dog has been charged under the state’s new animal cruelty law, which makes bestiality a felony, a prosecutor said.
Michael Patrick McPhail, 26, of nearby Spanaway, pleaded not guilty Thursday to one count of first-degree animal cruelty in Pierce County Superior Court.
Assistant Pierce County Prosecutor Karen Watson said McPhail was the first person in Pierce County to be charged with the new bestiality offense.
She said the dog was taken by animal control.
McPhail posted $20,000 bail on Friday.
Judge Katherine Stolz has set a trial date of Dec. 11.
McPhail’s wife told investigators that she found her husband on their back porch Wednesday night having intercourse with their 4-year-old female pit bull terrier, the Pierce County sheriff’s office report said. The dog was squealing and crying, according to charging papers.
The woman took photos with her cell phone and called the sheriff’s office.
Calls to McPhail’s public defender, David Katayama, were not immediately returned Friday.
The bestiality law, which took effect in June, was prompted by a case near Enumclaw in which a Seattle man died after having sex with a horse. Before the law was enacted, Washington was one of 14 states where bestiality had not been explicitly prohibited.
flasher-news said,
October 23, 2006 at 12:18 pm
RIVERSIDE, Calif. – A judge dismissed an indecent exposure charge against a woman accused of disrobing in front of a 14-year-old boy, saying the law only applies to men. Superior Court Judge Robert W. Armstrong said earlier in the week that the law only mentions someone who “exposes his person.”
“It’s gender specific,” Armstrong said.
He dismissed a misdemeanor charge against Alexis Luz Garcia, 40, of Corona, who was cited in May after parents of a neighbor boy said she showed him full-frontal nudity as he played basketball.
Prosecutor Alison N. Norton said the decision to throw out the case will be appealed because another section of state law says that “words used in the masculine gender include the feminine and neuter.”
Norton said Garcia had complained that the 14-year-old was making too much noise while playing basketball. She went out on her sundeck.
“He looked up at her, she looked down at him, and she disrobed,” Norton contended.
The boy ran inside and told his parents, who complained to Garcia.
“She threatened to do it every time he played basketball,” and the parents called police, Norton said.
Linda said,
October 23, 2006 at 12:32 pm
I see a great NBA future for that kid.
nuke-flasher said,
October 23, 2006 at 1:03 pm
Andy Borowitz Thu Oct 19, 6:25 AM ET
The elite club of nuclear powers gained a new member today as actor
Mel Gibson conducted what he called a successful nuclear test in Malibu, Calif.
With all eyes on North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il and his nuclear ambitions in recent days, the international community was stunned to learn that the controversial Australian actor had been quietly developing a nuclear weapon of his own.
But after digging a massive hole in the beach at Malibu and then detonating the nuclear device underground, Mr. Gibson held a press conference to say that he had initiated a nuclear program to guarantee his own security.
“There are a lot of people out to get me, and I think you know who they are,” Mr. Gibson said.
Moments after the actor’s announcement, the Malibu nuclear blast became the topic of heated debate in the
United Nations, drawing strong words of condemnation from Danny Gillerman,
Israel’s ambassador to the U.N.
“Iran getting a nuclear weapon was one thing, but this Mel Gibson business will not be tolerated,” he said.
Davis Logsdon, director of the Nuclear Proliferation Institute at the University of Minnesota, said that Mr. Gibson’s acquisition of a nuclear weapon casts “an ominous cloud” over the prospects for world peace.
“The fact that Mel Gibson now has a nuke is going to inspire other angry celebrities to acquire nukes of their own,” Mr. Logsdon said. “Is the world really prepared to see nuclear weapons in the hands of Starr Jones, or
Liza Minnelli?”
newsflasher said,
October 23, 2006 at 1:07 pm
President George W. Bush said today that the Foley matter “only reaffirms my belief that we must crack down on illegal immigration.”
Mr. Bush’s decision to link the Foley scandal with the issue of illegal immigration struck some in Washington as unorthodox, but the president remained resolute that America’s immigration crisis, and not the behavior of Mr. Foley, was the true root cause of the scandal.
“The question we need to be asking ourselves is not if Mark Foley behaved improperly,” Mr. Bush said. “The question we need to ask is, were these congressional pages in our country legally?”
Mr. Bush said he would ask Congress to appropriate $84 million to investigate the legal status of all congressional pages at once: “What we may be seeing is an orchestrated attempt by 16-year-old boys with hot bodies to swarm into our country and tempt our lawmakers.”
Minutes after the president’s remarks, which Mr. Bush made at a Boys Club of America luncheon in Washington, Speaker of the House
Dennis Hastert praised the president for “pointing the finger at the true culprits in this case.”
“It’s not hard for a bunch of scheming young men with hot bodies to corrupt an older man through no fault of his own,” Mr. Hastert says. “As a former high school wrestling coach, I speak from experience.”
Mainetarr said,
October 23, 2006 at 1:30 pm
Jaysus, I step away for a couple of hours and Herb the Perv comes back, Brenda posts are longer than the blog and the newsflasher gives us breaking news. What next? No free beer tomorrow??
Richie said,
October 23, 2006 at 1:44 pm
What !? Free beer ? And no one told me ? Geez, WTF peeps ?
jarheaddoc said,
October 23, 2006 at 1:52 pm
So, what did this neighbor look like? Is the kid queer and this is how he’s trying to tell his parents or does she look like a Gooney-GooHoo?
Mainetarr said,
October 23, 2006 at 2:00 pm
I heard the neighbor kid was about 5′10″, salt and pepper short hair, glasses, grouchy, oh-wait a minute, that’s you, not the neighbor JD. My mistake.
Richie, there’s always free beer…tomorrow!
Linda said,
October 23, 2006 at 2:49 pm
jarheaddoc’s grouchy? When? I never noticed that.
BTW is there free wine? (yes, I know — tomorrow!!)
Mainetarr said,
October 23, 2006 at 2:56 pm
Of course Linda, the wine is always free tomorrow-and you get a complimentary bottle to go, tomorrow. We have shiraz, pinot grigio, chard, merlot, you name it, it’s free. Help yourself.
Wimpy said,
October 23, 2006 at 3:18 pm
I will gladly pay you tomorrow for a cheeseburger today
LaFlamme said,
October 23, 2006 at 4:49 pm
Blast! I was going to post that pooch poking story tomorrow. But ah, we’ve covered that topic a time or ten.
AO said,
October 23, 2006 at 4:53 pm
Ah. Nothing like a heartwarming story about a man and his dog. Kind of gives a whole new meaning to “Man’s best friend.”
K2 said,
October 23, 2006 at 5:09 pm
Kibbles and Tits?
Mark, just dress up as an altar boy and you’ll be fondled in no time.
Linda said,
October 23, 2006 at 5:20 pm
Or .. as a dog maybe?
AO said,
October 23, 2006 at 5:20 pm
How are you feeling, K2? Did you take the advice I gave you in “Stiffy”?
Linda said,
October 23, 2006 at 5:22 pm
Hes making jokes again that has to be a good sign
AO said,
October 23, 2006 at 5:38 pm
I’ll bet it was all those flies in the beer that got to him. Not all the beer in the flies.
K2 said,
October 23, 2006 at 5:46 pm
Let’s just say my late-night guava yogurt paid a curdled visit at 7 am. Much tarter the second time ’round. It took me two H2 blockers to gte through the day so far. If the normal pH of a stomach is 1.0, mine was in negative territory earlier today. Worse than the Alien’s blood.
I actually have a hankering for grease. Right now I’m deciding between my killer chicken wings (toned down, of course) or a batch of utterly delicious Beignets. Are Acadian donuts for dinner legal? Cafe du Monde, how you mock me.
K2 said,
October 23, 2006 at 5:50 pm
Speaking of greasy slime:
http://money.cnn.com/2006/10/17/news/newsmakers/ken_lay/index.htm
LaFlamme said,
October 23, 2006 at 6:19 pm
Speaking further of greasy slime, what was the brown goo on Kenny Rogers hand at the start of the game last night?
K2 said,
October 23, 2006 at 6:24 pm
Hash oil, no question. D’you see the way he pitched? Obviously so high, he’s seeing the plate in the fourth dimension.
K2 said,
October 23, 2006 at 6:40 pm
And how ’bout my 4-2 Vikings destroying Seattle in their stadium, where they had won 12 straight? Oh, that’s right, you watch tennis. Me sorry.
Pats at Vikes, Monday Night. A hell of a match up.
Tonight, go Giants. I hope T.O. gets hit so hard he dies on the field. Maybe an evisceration or a decapitation.
LaFlamme said,
October 23, 2006 at 7:09 pm
Hash oil or some embarassing bathroom mishap.
Mainetarr said,
October 23, 2006 at 7:21 pm
looked like he spewed chew on his hand. That was gross. Dirt, my ass. Can you say “pine tar”????
K2 said,
October 23, 2006 at 7:23 pm
Yeah, he had a shitty fastball.
He really should get another name. I don’t care for two Kenny Rogers, thank you.
AO said,
October 23, 2006 at 7:25 pm
I think it look liked Kenny missed with the TP.
LaFlamme said,
October 23, 2006 at 7:26 pm
Shitty fastball. Goddamit, I KNOW that’s what I was trying for. I need a vacation.
K2 said,
October 23, 2006 at 7:27 pm
No, but I can say ‘Mainetarr.’ And Jamie Farr. His nose is almost as big as LaFlamme’s, thus the lack of inappropriate touching in his youth. And the only thing that smells worse than a Lebanese camel is a Frenchman. Even the Statue of Liberty’s got smelly pits.
Linda said,
October 23, 2006 at 7:30 pm
Little bit of free association going on there K2? It sounds as if the brain cells might still have a bit of re-alignment to be achieved.
AO said,
October 23, 2006 at 7:32 pm
Frank: Klinger! I want to see you out of that dress!
Klinger: Never on a first date, sir!
Linda said,
October 23, 2006 at 7:42 pm
K2’s still thinking about that yogurt redux. “May the mother of your camel spit in your yogurt.”
K2 said,
October 23, 2006 at 8:15 pm
Poor Camel Joe. The kids loved him. Just couldn’t get over the hump.
K2 said,
October 23, 2006 at 8:20 pm
SI’s take on Rogers — pine tar.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/jon_heyman/10/23/scoop.rogers/index.html?cnn=yes
K2 said,
October 23, 2006 at 9:00 pm
For those of you with cable, ‘This Is Spinal Tap’ is on at 9 pm on the VH1 Classic Rock channel.
‘Our amplifiers go to eleven.’ -Nigel
Linda said,
October 23, 2006 at 9:08 pm
Works for me. But what about the Giants?
K2, here’s a little item for your professional commentary
http://feministing.com/archives/005917.html
AO said,
October 23, 2006 at 9:15 pm
I need scarier than Spinal Tap. It’s October. All Hallow’s Eve is upon us. I think I’ll just wait for my haunted house to start getting active or, more active than it has been.
Pine tar on Roger’s hand? Maybe. Sounds like a bunch of crap to me. He still pitched a hell of a game even after he washed his hands.
Linda said,
October 23, 2006 at 9:18 pm
I think Halloween II might be on — is that scary? probably not
AO said,
October 23, 2006 at 9:25 pm
Too gory. I only like scary.
Linda said,
October 23, 2006 at 9:29 pm
I was scared and creeped out last night by “Hide and Seek” with Robert De Niro. I had to turn it off and watch Bill Maher — i usually have a high toerance for creepy but something about that little girl was too much for me
jarheaddoc said,
October 23, 2006 at 9:29 pm
Hmm, haunted house: can’t say that I’ve ever heard that euphamism before. got anything to do with your nickname, AO?
AO said,
October 23, 2006 at 9:50 pm
Nope.
brenda said,
October 24, 2006 at 8:46 am
linda- that feministing.com blog is very interesting, thanx
joker said,
October 24, 2006 at 9:02 am
A Farmer went out one day and bought a brand new stud rooster for his chicken coop. The new rooster struts over to the old rooster and says,
“OK old timer , time for you to retire.”
The old rooster replies, “Come on, surely you cannot handle ALL of these chickens. Look what it has done to me. Can’t you just let me have the two old hens over in the corner?”
The young rooster says, “Beat it: You are washed up and I am taking over..”
The old rooster says, “I tell you what, young stud. I will race you around the farmhouse. Whoever wins gets the exclusive domain over the entire chicken coop.”
The young rooster laughs. “You know you don’t stand a chance, old man. So, just to be fair, I will give you a head start.”
The old rooster takes off running. About 15 seconds later the young rooster takes off running after him. They round the front porch of the farmhouse and the young rooster has closed the gap.
He is only about 5 feet behind the old rooster and gaining fast.
The farmer, meanwhile, is sitting in his usual spot on the front porch when he sees the roosters running by. He grabs his shotgun and – BOOM – he blows the young rooster to bits. The farmer sadly shakes his head and says, “Darn…..third gay rooster I bought this month.”
Moral of this story? …
Don’t mess with the OLD TIMERS – age, skill, and treachery will always overcome youth and arrogance!
Linda said,
October 24, 2006 at 9:18 am
Glad you like it, Brenda. I read it every day, it IS interesting.
newsflasher said,
October 24, 2006 at 9:24 am
BEIJING, China (Reuters) — A Chinese entrepreneur is suing a Beijing trade bureau for denying him a permit to sell bags of “World Cup air” and for scotching his plans to bottle and sell “2008 Olympic air,” a newspaper said on Thursday.
Li Jie, who describes himself as chief executive of the Lunar Embassy to China and once tried to sell land on the moon, sought a permit to sell “World Cup air” for 50 yuan ($6.30) a bag to soccer enthusiasts unable to make the trip to Germany this year.
His idea was that fans could hang the green plastic bag around their necks and breathe in the air while watching World Cup matches on television, local media reported.
But the Chaoyang Industry and Commerce Bureau had rejected his application on the grounds that “special air from special places” was not classified as “an industrial category,” the Beijing News said.
In court, Li dismissed the assertion that the concept of selling air was unclear and accused the bureau of denying him a “once every four years” sales opportunity.
“The ’special air from special places’ I am talking about includes the Olympics, Tiananmen Square, Mount Everest … the moon, a pigsty, a horse paddock, a sheep pen — even Chaoyang District No. 3 Court,” Li said.
Beijing hosts the 2008 Summer Olympics.
As evidence, Li produced “Little Fox Sells Air” — a story in a primary school text book about a cunning fox that opens an air-selling business in a polluted city and “does good business”, the paper said.
“A textbook could not possibly advocate breaking the law, could it?” Li asked the court.
The case continues.
Linda said,
October 24, 2006 at 11:13 am
http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/10/24/people.clooney.ap/index.html
I would be REALLY interested to know whether the men on this blog agree with this list, at least the top 5. Are these the men that best “represent your gender”, in your opinions? Come on guys, please tell me what you think.
And, women, who do we think should be on the list (present company excluded)? I guess AO will probably cast one big vote for Harrison Ford, am I right?
When I have time, I’m going to jump right over to AskMen dot com and see what other gems they have there.
news questioner said,
October 24, 2006 at 12:51 pm
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — The voice on the phone taunted police, “better catch me before I kill again,” and described the location where officers could find the body.
Jurors listened to the recordings in court Monday as Deputy District Attorney John Monaghan gave his opening statements in serial murder trial of Ivan Hill, who is charged with killing six women in 1993 and 1994 and dumping their bodies along the Pomona Freeway.
Hill, 45, acknowledges placing the calls, and his defense attorney acknowledges that Hill killed the women.
But defense attorney Jennifer Friedman disputes the prosecution’s claim that he killed them intentionally, which would make him eligible for the death penalty.
“Compulsive acts are not deliberate acts. … They’re not done after careful thought and weighing,” Friedman told the jury. “Look at those killings. Listen to that phone call.”
Prosecutors say one victim was strangled by hand and the other five had ligatures around their necks, which Monaghan said indicated Hill planned the killings.
In the recording of Hill’s phone call to police, he was heard telling a 911 dispatcher he “did it again” and describing the location where he dumped the body.
“I did, um, what’s this, number five or six, I forget, but she’s out there,” Hill said. In a second call, he asked why it was taking so long for officers to reach the scene. “Y’all better catch me before I kill again,” he said.
Hill was linked to the victim by DNA testing and charged in November 2003. At the time, he was in prison for robbery, attempted robbery and assault with a deadly weapon, and had been set to be released in three months.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
well, a woman can strangle & drown five defenseless kids & be declared not responsible because of insanity, so why not a serial killer? Killing’s usually a crazy thing to do, don’t you think?
unless it’s for a reason like self defense, or you’re a soldier or police, and killing for a good reason.
joker said,
October 24, 2006 at 12:52 pm
or if your roosters are gay…..
LaFlamme said,
October 24, 2006 at 1:27 pm
I always thought Clooney was overrated. He’s not Red Green.
K2 said,
October 24, 2006 at 1:35 pm
What color does red and green make anyway? Funky purple?
I’ll never understand how movie stars matter in our culture. We can name Oscar winners, but not Nobel Prize winners. Pathetic.
LaFlamme said,
October 24, 2006 at 1:47 pm
There are still great actors out there who you seldom hear about in a personal way. De Niro comes to mind.
K2 said,
October 24, 2006 at 1:55 pm
Yeah, Jack Nicholson too.
I used to have a thing for Debra Winger. So mousy cute, with the raspy voice. But she stopped calling me years ago. Okay, she never called. But she thought about it. I think.
AO said,
October 24, 2006 at 2:02 pm
She told me she lost your number, K2. It’s been haunting her ever since. You were always on her mind.
LaFlamme said,
October 24, 2006 at 2:09 pm
I used to have that problem with Lee Remick. Now she’s dead.
AO said,
October 24, 2006 at 2:37 pm
Maybe she’ll start haunting you.
LaFlamme said,
October 24, 2006 at 2:39 pm
I’ve got enough live people doing that.
AO said,
October 24, 2006 at 2:54 pm
Me too. Damn bill collectors.
LaFlamme said,
October 24, 2006 at 7:26 pm
I got nuthin.
Linda said,
October 24, 2006 at 7:44 pm
Looks like everybody does. have nothing.
K2 said,
October 24, 2006 at 8:39 pm
I’m busy writing freelance crap. Somebody, give me a reason to live.
Linda said,
October 24, 2006 at 8:51 pm
What about this from CNN?
Nah, it’s probably way too abstract.
NEW YORK (Reuters) — Rock ‘n’ roll legend Elvis Presley ceded his crown to Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain on Forbes.com’s list as the top-earning dead celebrity.
The list, published on Tuesday, said grunge rocker Cobain earned $50 million between October 2005 and October 2006. Presley wound up in the No. 2 slot with $42 million, down from last year’s $45 million
K2 said,
October 24, 2006 at 9:29 pm
No. Jerry Garcia should be on top. Now I’m definitely slitting my wrists. . . .
brenda said,
October 24, 2006 at 9:43 pm
anyone else here into dancing with the stars? I love it. I wish they could all be declared winners right now! Nevermind eliminations.
K2 said,
October 24, 2006 at 10:08 pm
We’re ALL winners, brenda.
K2 said,
October 24, 2006 at 10:13 pm
For Gil, that pussy:
“According to estimates in a September research report by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank where almost everyone can be expected to vote Republican, federal spending has risen 45 percent during Bush’s presidency, three times as fast as it did under Bill Clinton.
Almost half of the increase is in discretionary spending (not entitlements, a whole other issue the GOP has disdained to address in any sustained fashion). And no, Osama is not to blame. As the exasperated Heritage folks note, non-military spending has gone up by 44 percent. Gross ploys like earmarks (putting pet projects into non-related appropriations bills) have ballooned. Although the economy is doing okay, with growth and productivity stable, the GOP’s grade on fiscal management is awful.”
Robert said,
October 25, 2006 at 11:30 am
Isn’t it great that the Catholic church has decided that all lay people who work with youth in the Church must now go through special training and criminal and financial background checks before they are allowed to be a part of the program. Good thing they have exempted the priests from this program.
And if you’re not a member of that particular parish there’s a whole second round of stuff you have to go through before you are approved…can you say discrimination?
Now lets talk about the 14 year old playign basketball….I’m guessing at 14 his skills have suddenly developed due to increaded practice time in the backyard. He has got to be the first 14 year old who told his parents, sounding like an urban myth already.
Tommy said,
October 18, 2009 at 1:38 pm
OK…well, how old is that piccie of you?? Let’s just say, If I was a priest, and you were a little choirboy, you’d be saying lots of ‘OH, FATHER!!’
You are a hottie. And I’m not a priest. I’m not even Catholic. But I’d still shag ya!!