unrepentant old hippie: Only 24 years too late

This is what’s called “a little late off the mark”, but I guess it’s a start:
Pope Benedict XVI’s former diocese says it has suspended a priest convicted in 1986 of sexually abusing minors and accepted the resignation of his superior.
The Archdiocese of Munich and Freising said Monday it had suspended a priest [...]

unrepentant old hippie: Happy Pi Day

Pie for everyone!  It’s Pi Day:
Pi, Greek letter (), is the symbol for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Pi Day is celebrated by math enthusiasts around the world on March 14th. Pi = 3.1415926535…
With the use of computers, Pi has been calculated to over 1 trillion [...]

unrepentant old hippie: Can anyone even doubt it?

It’s like the Great George Carlin said:  Pre-born you’re fine;  pre-school, you’re fucked:
Two Republican members of Kentucky’s House are attaching antiabortion-rights amendments to several unrelated bills that are awaiting a chamber vote, a move that is threatening to derail changes related to children’s Medicaid coverage, among other things, the Lexington Herald-Leader [...]

unrepentant old hippie: Don’t forget

Yahoo yahoo yahoo woohoo woot!  My favourite day of the year.

unrepentant old hippie: One step forward

…two steps back, you’re doing the Ratzi Rhumba!
Just when it looked like they might finally be getting into that “consenting adults” thing, along comes one more in a gathering dung heap of Catholic church child sex abuse scandals — and this one travels a long and perverse road that ends on the doorstep of Pope [...]

unrepentant old hippie: Fun with Harper’s YouTube channel

Someone’s about ready to spring a leak:
Oh yeah?
I’m always amazed to encounter people who have drunk so deeply of the Authoritarian Koolaid that they think the “will of the public” should have any bearing whatsoever on personal decisions and rights.  Does the phrase “tyranny of the majority” mean anything to these halfwits?  But I digress.  [...]

unrepentant old hippie: Jason Kenney exposed

Frock of ages, cleft for me…

unrepentant old hippie: We’re waiting

Time’s almost up, Gibbs.  Where’s the jersey?:
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs again disappointed the press corps Thursday by showing up for the daily briefing in a suit and tie instead of the Canadian jersey he promised he would wear if Canada bested the U.S. in the Olympic gold medal men’s hockey game.
Gibbs defended [...]

unrepentant old hippie: We’re waiting

Time’s almost up, Gibbs.  Where’s the jersey?:
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs again disappointed the press corps Thursday by showing up for the daily briefing in a suit and tie instead of the Canadian jersey he promised he would wear if Canada bested the U.S. in the Olympic gold medal men’s hockey game.
Gibbs defended [...]

unrepentant old hippie: “Help Wanted” fail

I think everybody’s worked at this place or someplace similar at some point.  I know I have.
(More at HuffPo)

unrepentant old hippie: Liberty: ur doin it wrong

I thought it was supposed to be “Innocent til proven Guilty”, not the other way around.
How do you like that post-9/11 new normal security blanket now, kids?

unrepentant old hippie: Two comments that say it all

Following the legalization of equal marriage in Washington DC last week, the Washington Post ran an article on the first weddings, accompanied by a joyous little photo of the very first couple to tie the knot under the “new rules”:

…and some were anything but pleased:
But wait — what’s this?:
Out with the old, in with the [...]

unrepentant old hippie: A successful procedure

If US health care reform is passed, as it looks like it probably will be, its first surgical procedure will be the excision of a persistently putrescent hemorrhoid that’s been lodged immovably in the sphincter of America:
Hate radio host Rush Limbaugh has been one of health care reform’s most vociferous opponents, warning that “[h]uman beings [...]

unrepentant old hippie: Dogs in slow motion

Catching treats.  Cool ad for Pedigree:

unrepentant old hippie: Seeds of fear!!!

We cover the waterfront today, folks.  From the government-mandated spreading of seed for survival to… Survival Seeds!
YES: There is something you can do to prepare for the coming Apocalypse when Obama’s Secret Gestapo gets a lock on the food supply and redirects it to all the Elites and Insiders.  Plant a Crisis Garden for the [...]

unrepentant old hippie: Nanny state conservative alert

Oh god.  DJ caught one of our favourite soconuts getting weird again with a new plan to punish anyone who gets laid on even a semi-regular basis.
An incessant advocate of Strong Government Presence in the bedroom, this time he’s proposing a “Sterility Tax” (500%!) on contraceptives.  The logic apparently goes that imposing punitive taxation on [...]

unrepentant old hippie: More weird things to do with trees

Yes, hmm, well after this, why not?
Not bad, but I think I would have made the hat a little more Devo-like.  Ha!

unrepentant old hippie: Spinning wingnuts

It’s always a bummer to discover that a sparkly golden idol is made of crude and common brass (or in this case, tinfoil), but wingnuts are spinning themselves stupid over the Palin/Yukon health care story.
They quickly went into astonished damage control mode and claimed that it was a non-story because the Yukon didn’t have “socialized [...]

unrepentant old hippie: Palinocrisy

The Sarah Palin Rolling Roadshow was in Calgary on Saturday night:
Sarah Palin drew a straight line from Alaska to Alberta as she told a sold-out, largely adoring crowd in Calgary that the province gets her message of less government, lower taxes and development of natural resources.
“Largely” might be an overstatement, since…
About half of the [...]

unrepentant old hippie: WWPD?

(via pharyngula)

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