The Disenchanted Forest

Roman Polanski promises the Swiss he'll be a boyscout

2009-11-01T14:58:00.002-05:00

Roman Polanski is once again proving that great artistic talent does not make him an honorable human being. In the face of his victim, Samantha Geimer, requesting the charges be dropped due to the...

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Wye not?

2009-10-01T14:52:00.002-04:00

Wasn't the FTC supposed to relay a decision on Wye-Pfi yesterday? I'm hearing crickets chirping, but nothing else from Pfizer, here in Pharm Country. Could it be that the FTC is doing some...

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FDA cracks down on corporate drug dealers

2009-05-13T15:54:00.002-04:00

In this case, the renegade drug company is none other than General Mills purveyors of such nasty contraband as Cheerios®. My first reaction was to crack up hysterically at what, on the surface,...

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How long before big Pharma companies have their hands out for more?

2009-03-09T16:11:00.003-04:00

Today's announcement that Merck will buy Schering-Plough just marked another notch in the belt of bad news for not only the economy, but for drug development and healthcare worldwide. Pharma company...

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When the trickle down drippage from the golden parachute isn't gold

2009-02-04T12:40:00.002-05:00

So, according to CNN, President Obama has announced that he'll deflate Golden Parachutes for execs who take bail out money: "For top executives to award themselves these kinds of compensation...

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Budd Dwyer begs your pardon

2009-01-11T11:52:00.008-05:00

Wow, talk about selective memory where a friend is concerned. This morning I ready an editorial in the Inky that really irked the hell out of me. In the piece, former Reagan staffer Jeffrey Lord...

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Air Tran apologizes - sort of

2009-01-03T09:40:00.002-05:00

Like many a public figure caught doing something that could impact their bottom line, Air Tran issued an apology for severely screwing up the vacation plans of Atif Irfan, his family, and a family...

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2009 Predictions

2009-01-02T10:41:00.003-05:00

All one has to do to confirm that I have absolutely no psychic abilities is to look at the decisions I've made in my life about men and more than 1 job, however, I'm pretty confident predicting that...

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Israel chooses to make a bad situation worse the worse situation worst

2008-12-30T10:23:00.005-05:00

I don't blog on Israel too much, the reason for this is two-fold:I'm severely conflicted where Israel and her actions as a sovereign nation are concernedDiscussions about Israel leave me with a huge...

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The War On Christmas: The War Within

2008-12-25T10:40:00.002-05:00

Every year at Christmastime which, sometimes, starts as early as Halloween, I start what seems to be a tradition of posts on the so-called "War on Christmas." The now annual battles start with...

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An Uncovered Front in the War on Christmas

2008-12-21T13:09:00.006-05:00

David Hiltebrand's article about all the films opening on Christmas Day and how a treck to the movies is the "new" way to celebrate the holiday was one I pretty much ignored in today's Inky. While I...

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A perverted sense of justice

2008-12-21T07:25:00.002-05:00

About 42 years ago, Bill Barnes committed a crime - a nasty, heinous crime that left a young man critically wounded. Walter Barclay, a 23-year old rookie in the Philly police department, was...

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The only thing that's attractive about Ne-Yo is his bank account

2008-12-20T08:13:00.003-05:00

and in this economy, maybe we can hope that Ne-Yo's ode to High Yellow hits his biggest asset. Ne-Yo recently made the following comments to a couple of radio DJs during an interviewAll the...

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Good for Civil Rights is Evil for Evangelicals

2008-12-16T19:46:00.002-05:00

Like many logical thinking people and organizations who think nobody should be permitted to use their right to freedom of religion to deny rights to others, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has found...

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Where is the Catholic League's Outrage?

2008-12-14T18:48:00.005-05:00

Honestly, Bill Donahue (aka the Catholic League) protests everything he considers to to be disrespectful to Catholicism, so why have I not heard a peep about the following tasty bit of blasphemy?a...

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Wingnuttery goes mainstream: The ABCs of lapel pin politics

2008-12-13T16:18:00.008-05:00

For those of you who wonder how the wingnuts get regular, generally rational, mainstream/moderate people to support their crazy-assed antics, the percolating new cause célèbre provides us with an...

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Confidence lost in Evangelical Reverend who voiced logic

2008-12-13T08:34:00.002-05:00

In yet another stunning example of why Evangelical/Fundamentalist Christians have a reputation of intolerant bullies who resort to legislative force when their testimony fails to convert you,...

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Don't worry Rod, you won't be "stuck at Governor" for long

2008-12-09T13:22:00.002-05:00

Well it looks like Illinois Gov. Rob Blagojevich will be moving from a position in state government to one with the federal government, but I don't think it's the kind of move he thought he had in...

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This is what it means to be a student-athlete

2008-12-07T13:39:00.004-05:00

Myron Rolle is an athlete worthy of any fan and, if you have any doubts, the following proves itEmbedded video from CNN Videotags: Myron Rolle football academics

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ChristCo CostCo: Just Say No [to selling out Christmas]

2008-12-02T17:33:00.004-05:00

Oh my goodness-gracious, yet another store is refusing to cater specifically to Christians who hate their religion so much, they've made shopping a critical part of one of their holiest holidays. ...

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Jeb Bush suggestion to promote the GOP

2008-12-01T16:45:00.004-05:00

seditionThe former Florida governor told Newsmax correspondent Ashley Martella that Republicans should create "a shadow government" to challenge Democrats on policy grounds."In Washington we need to...

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Pastor dead, theocratic fantasies still alive and kicking

2008-11-30T13:57:00.003-05:00

Just in case you hadn't heard, Rev. George M. Docherty, the pastor whose sermon lead to the blasphemous addition of the words "under G-d" to the Pledge of Allegiance, died on Thanksgiving at the age...

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Being Bobby Jindal

2008-11-30T12:18:00.004-05:00

Despite the resounding defeat of the Christian Nationalist platform in the last Presidential election, the GOP continues to focus on the fundamentalist smell test as they rebuild the party. Media...

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A true sign of the Apocalypse: being good for goodness' sake

2008-11-30T08:49:00.011-05:00

I'm sitting here this dank day, drinking my yummy home-brewed WAWA coffee and pondering why a bunch of bus signs in DC have people in such a tizzy. Is it that striking a Christmas theme and quoting...

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Black Friday indeed

2008-11-29T14:30:00.003-05:00

They're cleaning up the carnage in Mumbai, a city that seems to get attacked with the frequency of an Israeli border town. For those of you wishing to send condolences, Judaism.com will be...

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