The Sardonic Sideshow

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The new FCC chairman Kevin J. Martin is ‘boning up’ for a war on obscenity. Here’s something to be freaked out by - a government agency just hired an ACTIVIST to advise them on policy issues.
This summer, Martin hired one of the activists, Penny Nance, to work in the FCC’s Office of Strategic Planning […]

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May the maudlin coverage not dampen your morale.
May you be able to laugh in the face of tragedy.
May you not get gouged by opportunists.
May all the emergency rations come with a cold beer!

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Nothing is ever as BAD or as GOOD as you find on Fox News.
According to Fox News - 25,000 people were/could/perhaps going to die because of Hurricane Katrina. New Orleans could be completely wiped off the map. ‘Catastrophic’ was used before the first drop of rain hit. If you watched Fox News - […]

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Workers at Beauvoir, the Biloxi historical home where Jefferson Davis spent the last years of his life, prepare for Hurricane Katrina to make landfall in Biloxi, Mississippi. A massive evacuation of New Orleans was underway amid fears of a catastrophic hit by Hurricane Katrina, which barreled toward the low-lying southern US city with winds […]

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Academics in the UK claim their research shows that men are more intelligent than women.

So a bunch of men got together, spent months and months of their lives - tons of money involving 80,000 people to prove how smart men are?
That’s fucking brilliant!

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So I was going through my old posts - reading stuff - organizing stuff - when it hit me - I write a lot about gay issues.
I consider myself to be a humanist. I think all people should be treating well. Even the assholes of the species (you know who you are!).
I still couldn’t figure […]

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Cindy Sheehan is standing up for something she believes in. She wants the US out of Iraq. That takes courage. Humans don’t like people that talk about peace. We hate it. There is a tendency to kill the messenger…

What is it about human beings? As soon as someone says they are a pacifist - suddenly […]

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Cheers.
I have new headshots. My mother is a talented photographer. She took 2 billion photos of me. One billion of which I was making a grimace or rolling my eyes. Now I’m forced to go through all of them…that’s what I get for being a snot.
Speaking of which…I got an email:

Alright, maybe you are so […]

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My grandfather called me and told me he was angry with me over this picture. The following is my letter to him.
Dear Grampa,
I’m sorry you were upset by the picture you saw on my blog. You thought I was desecrating the flag. Let me make it clear - that is not what I was doing […]

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It’s COLD. It’s cloudy - foggy - whatever - in the 50’s with some drizzle and it’s COLD.
Thank goodness for the people of Berkeley its now called ‘climate change’ because showing up to an August global warming rally in a sweater and mittens would have seemed ridiculous.
Anyway, Rick Overton is playing at Cobbs this […]

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Indian casino. No internet access. No cell phone reception…and the little machines with the bright lights sang to me all night. “Tina, you could double your pay. You’re not like those other slot zombies - you’ll actually win. Just five dollars…”
It’s never one time - for anything. If there is a bad habit out there […]

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I was wondering why the air was making my lungs ache and my eyes burn. “Fresh air is creepy like that,” I told myself. Then I heard about all the fires in Washington and Oregon. See, because I live in Los Angeles, the gray haze in the sky is totally normal. I didn’t even notice. […]

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