A Major Head Rush
Time magazine recently had a cover story on Rush "Talent on Loan from God" Limbaugh and Howard Stern, the two major big mouths of radio. One of the photos showed two of Rush's "dittoheads" bare to the waist, and one of them had painted on his back, "Rush is God."
If we start getting a little more right-wing blasphemy like Limbaugh's, conservative Christians can start feeling good about America again, right?
Idaho Blues
Ben Stein reports in the American Spectator about the delights of northern Idaho, and the prejudices of You Folks Out There. "`You're going back to northern Idaho?' my friend from Connecticut said to me over the phone before I left on this trip. `Don't you know it's full of Nazis?' `You're going to Idaho?' my relative in Brooklyn asked. `Don't you know about the Aryan Nations and how they murder people up there?' `You're going to Idaho? Isn't that where the Skinheads are? Aren't you afraid they'll kill you when you walk down the street?' asked my neighbor here in Hollywood."
As Stein recognizes, Idaho has far fewer fascists per square mile than most other states, and the few that are here are either the type that have difficulty spelling "fascist" or the type that lust for more New Deal goodies from D.C.
Is There a Problem?
The Moneychanger reports that Mr. Clinton's appoinment to fill the slot as Secretary of the Army, a Mr. John Shannon, has been charged with shoplifting a woman's blouse and skirt at an Army PX in Virginia.
Door Number One, No Wait . . . Door Number Two, No Wait . . .
The U.S. Supreme Court recently greatly expanded the criteria an employee can use to sue for sexual harrassment. The employee no longer has to prove that any psychological damage resulted from the harrassment. A little later, a federal appeals court ordered the Navy to graduate and commission a midshipman who had been given the old heave ho from the Naval Academy for being a homosexual. The court acknowledged that the presence of homosexuals would indeed make other members of the military uncomfortable, but that was just plain tough.
So which is it? Are we supposed to be sensitive or are we not supposed to be sensitive?
A Little Late
Population "scientist" Paul Ehrlich, who promised us massive world starvation by 1975, 1980, and so on, was recently asked after another "crisis, so we need world government" lecture on population, what he was personally doing to save the earth. He responded, "My single contribution is that I had only one kid."
Given his view of the imminent population disaster, you would expect him to think that one child is one child too many. Perhaps he should have just borrowed a child for a while.
Government Approved Messiah Complex
With the President now continuing a century long tradition of butting into Haiti, the Administration had to fight-off leaked CIA reports that ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was unfit for office due to mental problems. The CIA recently updated its file on Aristide, noting that it's true that "Aristide suffers from depression and from religious complexes, such as a belief that he is the Messiah, but `the bottom line conclusion is that he is competent to lead his country.'"
After all, if we start disqualifying political leaders just because they think they are the Messiah, . . .
Santa Clubbed by Ridiculousness
After helpfully reminding us of how the biblically-challenged embrace a quasi-divine Santa Claus (all-knowing, gravity-defying, nearly omnipresent), the Bobgan's PsychoHeresy Awareness Letter descends into Bathos: "Even Santa's light-hearted laugh echoes a familiar word associated with deity. Santa's laugh is `ho-ho-ho,' not `ho-ho' (twice), but `ho-ho-ho' (three times). Ho is a shortened form of holy. The threefold `ho-ho-ho' sounds like the threefold `Holy, Holy, Holy' found in such Bible verses as Isaiah 6:3 . . ."
And Santa's suit has a collar of lamb's wool like The Lamb, and he has sacrificial animals leading his arrival, and Rudolph is like John the Baptist, and . . .
Three Cheers for Walter Williams
George Mason University economist Walter Williams recently noted that, "Clinton's effort to forcibly impose socialized medicine on our nation [should lead us] to make preparations to secede from the union. . . . The national debate over his plan, like so many other federal assaults on our liberties, focuses on whether it's a good plan or a bad plan. The fundamental question totally ignored is whether federalized medicine is authorized by the U.S. Constitution. My thorough reading of our Constitution found no authorization for Clinton's plan. . . . The only peaceful resolution is that of secession. . . . `Hey, Williams,' you say, `the last time secession was tried, we had a pretty bloody war.' You're right, but let's hope that we learned how costly it is to make people be a part of something they don't want to be. After all, the right to part company is the most effective human safety valve."
