Mel-Anon"Hello ladies, my name's Joseph. I just rolled into town."They're sharpening their cleavers and their knives- November 30, 2006 Poor Barack Obama can't win for losing. You may remember this summer when Obama's appearance at Jim Wallis' Call to Renewal conference left many liberals uneasy. Now, evangelical megastar Rick Warren has invited him to speak at his conference on...http://melancholics.typepad.com/blog/2006/11/theyre_sharpeni.html Fall for anything- November 27, 2006 Back in my days with the evangelicals in Bloomington, we would occasionally drive by the local Unitarian Universalist church, which inevitably provoked an outbreak of smirks and jeers. It was, to us, the Church of Nothingness, and we couldn't understand...http://melancholics.typepad.com/blog/2006/11/fall_for_anythi.html I got yer happy feet right here- November 20, 2006 Hee hee hee...I love this story. Some parents in an Illinois school district are trying to have a book called "And Tango Makes Three" removed from the school library. This is a children's book that tells the (apparently true) story...http://melancholics.typepad.com/blog/2006/11/i_got_yer_happy.html Armed and fertile- November 20, 2006 The other article in last week's issue of The Nation which has everyone buzzing is Kathryn Joyce's piece on a group calling themselves the "Quiverfulls sic". They are a loose network of very fringe-y fundamentalists who try to churn out...http://melancholics.typepad.com/blog/2006/11/armed_and_ferti.html What's behind door number three- November 16, 2006 Here's another interesting thing I've discovered about Rapturemaniacs: for people who are so self-assured in their ability to map out the End Times down to the second, they are mysteriously unable to come up with a cogent answer for which...http://melancholics.typepad.com/blog/2006/11/whats_behind_do.html Misoverestemated- November 16, 2006 King George II is off to tour Asia in his Royal Aeroplane this week, but I'm not sure he knows exactly where he's going. As Foreign Policy's Passport blog points out, the White House website, intending to post the flag...http://melancholics.typepad.com/blog/2006/11/misoverestemate.html Woe Canada- November 15, 2006 Well, friends, it was only a matter of time. Another piece of American cultural garbage is headed north to infect the Great White Land. As Chris Hedges reports in The Nation, the poisonous seeds of the Christian Right are making...http://melancholics.typepad.com/blog/2006/11/woe_canada.html Please step away from the thesaurus- November 14, 2006 Don't look now, but I think the punditocracy has collectively learned a new word, because in the wake of the election all I hear is, "Blah blah repudiation yak yak repudiation. Are the voters repudiating the policy of George Bush...http://melancholics.typepad.com/blog/2006/11/please_step_awa.html Bernie News Network- November 14, 2006 Not only is he in the Senate, but Bernie Sanders now has his own simplistic-yet-oddly-addictive internet arcade game. When will the madness end (When Firefox 2.0 stops correcting my spelling, that's when. Geez, take all the fun out of it...http://melancholics.typepad.com/blog/2006/11/bernie_news_net.html Okay- November 14, 2006 I may have been on the spearhead of the blogging craze a few years ago, but I'm apparently the last person on earth to give in to the Myspace craze. All of you NewsCorp. tools can find me here.http://melancholics.typepad.com/blog/2006/11/okay.html |