“Dude, you have no Koran”

So said a skateboarder who scuttled an Amarillo, Texas preacher’s plan to burn a Koran by boosting said Koran just before the match was struck and giving it to the local Muslim contingent. Not sure what’s more tawdry–that this guy wanted to burn a...

Instant coffee explained at last!

Yep, the Grand Band Slam issue is out the door, so now things like blogs can be examined. And speaking of, my friend Ron Egatz just posted at his blog the only thing I’ve seen yet that made me consider that I might eventually want an iPad–he dubs it the...

Fundies, no Undies

A whole new kind of fundamentalist terrorist emerges in “Naked City,” France: A long-simmering war between two tribes of the unclothed – “traditional” nudists and so-called “libertines” or exponents of free sex –...

Sometimes proud to be an American?

Some conservatives enjoy branding the leftward the “blame America first” crowd. Of course, there’s kneejerk nationalism, then there’s a mature love of country that requires looking at faults and remedying them–in short, taking...