In Hawai’i we live so close to each other that I hear my neighbors blowing their nose while I watch a movie in my house. Yet, someone can take a forklift and steal a 2000 pound piece of equipment with no one seeing them? Bullshit! This is the way Hawai’i works. A three year delay…
It begins: South Dakota passes
Well folks, this is where it starts. Now we get to see if Alito and Roberts are the fair minded men they claimed to be. Personally, I think this is the start of the fundamentalist revolution. Hold on to your rights, somebody wants to take em. Get this: The South Dakota law concludes that life…
Tom Cruise Loves Country and Katie Doesn't Love Gay Tom
Now folks, this is all rumour of course, but I have it on not so great authority that Katie Holmes dumped Tom Cruise even though she is pregnant with his baby because Renee Zellweger called her up and told her that her ex, Kenny Chesney, and Tom were doing some Brokeback Mountain bonding. The rumours…
Cheney goes ahead with Folsom Prison concert
This would be acceptably amusing under any circumstances, but having just seen Johnny Cash brought to life in “Walk the Line,” I am even more amused… Go Fuck Yourself
DARWIN'S NIGHTMARE by Hubert Sauper
I sent a story about this film to the Chairman last August. Still haven’t seen it, but was reminded this morning by a story on NPR. It is a bizarre, powerful, and depressing story. Some time in the 1960’s, in the heart of Africa, a new animal was introduced into Lake Victoria as a little…
India's feisty untouchable woman
Girija Devi is a one-woman social reform campaign for the Musahar community. I am so impressed with people who don’t listen to those little voices that tell us, “You can’t do that! Who do you think you are?” This story is a reminder of the profound impact that a single individual can have. Someone once…
Churches lambast US over Iraq, environment
Assholes come in all shapes, sizes, and religious preferences. And so do good people. Despite my profound suspicion of the machinations and intentions of the Christian church as a whole, I applaud the statement recently released by the World Council of Churches. The Council represents a large number of churches of different denominations worldwide. It…
A Toast to Toast
I love Toast! cd A Toast! The humble, reliable toaster celebrates its 100th anniversary By E. Shan Correa Special to the Star-Bulletin THE ELECTRIC TOASTER is celebrating its 100th anniversary. Although my own toaster seems unaware of this milestone, a piece saluting such a significant accomplishment deserves to begin with an epigraph, so here it…
Chosen By God…Uganda
It doesn’t just happen in the third world……. This quote from the article struck me “Most of the world’s great despots at some stage claimed that God chose them,” Ugandan commentator Alan Tacca wrote. cd KAMPALA (Reuters) – Hundreds of born-again Christians drop their Bibles and begin singing songs hailing Uganda’s long-serving President Yoweri Museveni….
Death by Air Guitar Misadventure
This would be tragic if I could just stop laughing! The big question is who was he mimicking? Also, is ‘misadventure’ an acceptable cause of death? cd SINGAPORE (Reuters) – A teenage guitarist got so carried away while bouncing up and down on his bed mimicking a rock star that he flew out of a…