Eoin Butler: writer, journalist and Mayoman of the Year

Tripping Along The Ledge


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YOU KNOW WHO ELSE GROSSLY MISCHARACTERISED THE POLICIES OF THEIR POLITICAL OPPONENTS? YEAH, THAT’S RIGHT, THE NAZIS*

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As mentioned here previously, partisan politics in America is an ugly, ugly business. Everyone compares anything they don’t like to the Holocaust. Everyone compares anyone they don’t like the Nazis. But every so often a story comes along that if, well, it can’t warm the cockles, it’ll at least elicits a cackle from the coldest chambers of your heart. Read the rest of this entry »

FAITH ALIVE

popeprays 1. Christian fundamentalist advertises his pro-life credentials by killing abortion doctor.
2. Boy chosen by Dalai Lama as reincarnation of spiritual leader corrupted by exposure to bad Eddie Murphy film, turns back on Buddhist order.
3. Non-ironic news headline of the week (from the Salt Lake Tribune): Evil-doers take back door into heaven. Incidentally, some non-Mormons posthumously baptised into the Church of Latter Day Saints include Pope John Paul II, Christopher Columbus, Anne Frank and (of course) Adolph Hitler.