Limbaugh hoisted on his own fat petard
"”>There’s a popular Biblical quotation: ‘He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword.’ Limbaugh has lived by the sword of big-government, tax-and-spend Republican socialism. That socialism includes the very laws that have made his drug habit an illegal scandal rather than a private tragedy. The whore will have only himself to blame if his backing of socialist policies eventually destroys him.” (10/04/03)
Via: Rational Review
2 commentsOne rule for R&B stars and one rule for the rest?
CMU reports:
R Kelly has been given permission by a Chicago judge to leave his home state for a US tour the second since he has been on bond after being arrested
over child pornography allegations. His bond conditions ban him from leaving
Illinois, but the court ignored the objections of local prosecutors and
allowed the second tour in three months to take place.
The schedule approved by the court will see Kelly perform later this month
in Houston, New Orleans, Philadelphia and Hampton. Dates are also planned
for Texas and New York though those are to be confirmed. Either way Kelly
must return to Chicago by 4 Nov. He is due back in court December 1.
Suicide gig strangeness
Still no real word on whether the controversial Hell On Earth ‘suicide gig’
went ahead this weekend.
Reports yesterday suggested the proposed webcast of the event failed because
of over demand a spokesman for the band’s ISP told reporters: “There’s was
a huge amount of traffic which causes the server to lock up.”
Meanwhile Hell on Earth frontman Billy Tourtelot reportedly said the gig did
go ahead, but he did not know if the suicide had happened because it was due
to take place at a different venue.
Meanwhile Chicago based DJ Shane Bugbee told reporters he had two videos to
webcast via his website one of the Hell on Earth gig, the other of footage
that purports to show a sickly-looking man committing suicide through “some
sort of asphyxiation.”
The jury is still out on whether the event took place. Or if so whether it
will ever be webcast. And perhaps most importantly, if it did and it is,
whether or not the whole escapade has really helped the pro-euthanasia
movement.
Via: CMU and the following from Rational Review
A concert that was to feature an on-stage suicide of a terminally ill person was postponed Saturday because …. The Web site for the band Hell on Earth was attacked Saturday evening by a flood of data from computers somewhere in Hong Kong, said Jason Trindade, the operator of a San Diego-based technology company that hosts the site. ... Trindade said he was told by Hell on Earth leader Billy Tourtelot that the performance would be postponed, possibly until next weekend. ... City and state officials had warned they would pursue criminal charges if the band went through with the suicide plan, and a judge
had issued an order banning the event.” (10/04/03)
See Dick. See Jane. See Dick dickover Jane
From “Pushing The Limits In Juvenile Fiction,” The Edmonton Journal, Oct 5/03 [no link available].
As She Grows, a Canadian novel published by Penguin Canada earlier this year, is a case in point. Snow, the 15-year-old protagonist, lives with an abusive, alcoholic, mentally ill grandmother. Her 18-year-old drug-dealing boyfriend dumps her when she becomes pregnant. She’s beaten and forced to perform oral sex by her best friend’s 24-year-old boyfriend and is nearly raped by grandmother’s creepy alcoholic boyfriend, who turns out to be her father.
(So — her grandmother is, uh, her father’s girlfriend. Got it.)
Dreamland, published by Penguin, a 2003 Reachers [sic] Choice Award for 2003, [sic] describes an abusive relationsip [sic] experienced by a high school senior at the hands of her drug-dealing, BWM [sic] boyfriend.
[I was going to bracket out all the illiteracies, but screw it. The Journal had its chance to hire me as a copy editor, but it didn’t, so damned if I’m going to cover for its lousy writers.]
When Dad Killed Mom . . . is narrated by a 12-year-old boy and his older teenaged sister who discover as the plot unfolds that their psychologist father shot their mother when she threatened to leave him and expose him professionally after discovering his affair with a young patient. It’s an unsettling drama of domestic violence and abuse that includes incestuous allusions between the father and daughter.
Speak . . . which deals with the rape of a 14-year-old girl by the most popular boy in the school and the ostracism she suffers from her peers.
“Well, class, do we detect a unifying theme here?”
“That the Journal’s writers don’t write so good?”
“Yes, but that’s not it.”
“That the Journal should have hired gnotalex as a copy editor when it had the chance?”
“Indubitably, but that’s not it either.”
“Uh, that men are scum?”
“Exactly! Class dismissed!”
Sheesh. It’s enough to make you nostalgic for the Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew.
The purpose of literature isn’t moral uplift; but neither is it to reflect a scabby worldview worthy of Andrea Dworkin.
I don’t think it’s unconnected that boys are falling far behind girls in reading and writing skills — presented with this dreary PC diet (and many of these books are mandated reading by the militantly feminist public school establishment), I’d be inclined to pack it in, too.
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