Archive for March, 2008

Gay Lib

Friday, March 28th, 2008

I was listening to some old George Carlin the other day. He has a routine called “Gay Lib.” Now this is from 1974, so while it’s very enlightened for its time, it’s probably a little uninformed by today’s standards. Now, in this routine he puts forth the notion that being gay is […]

It’s a Dead Man’s Party

Friday, March 21st, 2008

Here it is, Good Friday. The day that Christians commemorate the killing of Jesus Christ, celebrating the forgiveness of Original Sin that his selfless death enabled.
So the rough timeline is that Jesus is killed on Good Friday, rises from the dead on Easter Sunday, and then wanders around for forty days before ascending to […]

The Drinking of the Green

Friday, March 14th, 2008

Monday is St. Patrick’s Day. It’s a little unusual in that it’s a Christian Holy Day that doesn’t appear to have been stolen from any sort of Pagan celebration. That hasn’t stopped it, though, from devolving into something rather un-church-like.
It’s a day, in the United States at least, where vast numbers of people […]

Onan, Not Again

Friday, March 7th, 2008

God and I were having one of those rambling conversations and somewhere in it I got a new insight. Somehow we got around to the subject of onanism, which is an old obscurant term for masturbation, and to the biblical story from which the term comes. Just in case you’re not all up […]