Morford: What Price Youth, Spider-Man? (Self-Absorption Alert!)
So then a largish envelope comes in the mail and it's from my mother and it contains a single, well-used comic book sealed in a plastic Zip-Loc bag, a book from my childhood she found in a storage box...
View ArticleMorford: Sentient Non-Idiots For Kerry
And isn't it funny how at least 13 members of Congress have actually requested that the United Nations monitor this year's U.S. presidential election, just because, just in case, just to ensure there's...
View ArticleMorford: Dick Cheney Gets His Gay On
Bunny-curdling screams were heard throughout the Beltway last week and Laura Bush herself got all flustered and confused as vice president and noted hunk of rabid warmongering neoconservatism Dick...
View ArticleMorford: Where Is Your Hallowed Balm? Music? Yoga? Porn?
I am searching for a few good things. Things to counteract, to dissolve the simmering dread, to deflect the waves of nausea and karmic pain induced by the incessantly depressing media maelstrom and the...
View ArticleMorford: Apocalypse Bush! (Why care for the planet when the End Times are...
This is the great thing about rabid fundamentalism. You really just don't have to give a damn. Take the environment. I mean, isn't it just a little pointless to care so damn deeply about the air and...
View ArticleMorford: Love Masochism? Vote BushCo!
I have a good friend who believes, gloomily, bitterly, resignedly, that not only are we in for four more years of painful and cheerless BushCo-branded tyranny and misprision and aww-shucks dumb-guy...
View ArticleMorford: Kiss My Megatruck, Dude
Aww, screw it. I mean, really. You just gotta love this thing. You just gotta love the fact that some semitruck company somewhere called International Truck and Engine Corp. is now coming out with what...
View ArticleMorford: Does God Hate Florida?
You know it's true. You know if, say, San Francisco had just been blasted by not two, not three, but fully four lethal trailer-park-eating earthquakes, why, the Right-wing Bible set would be yelping...
View ArticleWrite More About Skull & Bones
Secret societies? UFOs? The truth about what *really* happened on 9/11? The media cowers I get this a lot: Hey Mark, you're a rather weird, unconventional columnist, why don't you quit toeing the...
View ArticleGet Out And Vote And Scream
So here we are, staring down a rather historic moment amidst the sputtering ideological orgy that is the American experiment and if you're paying any sort of attention at all you're doubtlessly drunk...
View ArticleMorford: We Are All Dubya's Doormat
This just in: Millions of moderate Republicans and gay-terrified evangelical Christians and intellectually numbed conservative parents who thought they were doing some sort of good by blindly voting...
View ArticleKin mourn soldiers, brace for hate group (Westboro Baptist Church blame...
A Green Beret killed in Afghanistan will be laid to rest in his native Marblehead today as police brace for the anticipated arrival of a Kansas hate group. ``We're in Massachusetts now and we will be...
View ArticleHate group plans funeral protest
Marblehead police are readying for a possible hate group protest that threatens to mar the privacy and solemnity of a local man's military funeral. A radical Midwestern group has announced its...
View ArticleFred Phelps the Viper: Clues to What's Driving Him-- Al Gore?...
Free Republic Exclusive Fred Phelps, leader of the "God-hates-faXs" movement, is planning on crashing the funeral of one of our War Dead on July 4th. Why? To spread his message of anti-homosexual SPAM...
View ArticleAnti-Gay Church Protests at GI Funerals
SMYRNA, Tenn. (AP) - Members of a church say God is punishing American soldiers for defending a country that harbors gays, and they brought their anti-gay message to the funerals Saturday of two...
View ArticleGroup opposed to homosexuality protests at funeral for fallen soldier
Inside Grace Lutheran Church last Wednesday family and friends of fallen Ripon soldier Sergeant Andrew Wallace grieved. Outside, others stood with signs with messages including 'America is doomed,'...
View ArticleUpdated: Kansas group to picket memorial service (Fred Phelps, WV)
In a phone interview today, Shirley Phelps-Roper informed this reporter that a group of approximately 15 people will be coming to Buckhannon to picket at the memorial service on Sunday, January 15....
View ArticleStates move to bar protests at soldiers’ funerals
States move to bar protests at soldiers funerals Fundamentalists picketing may provoke clash of privacy, free speech rights The Associated Press Updated: 8:48 p.m. ET Feb. 6, 2006 COLUMBUS, Ohio -...
View ArticleIdiots in the hands of an angry God
Fred Phelps calls himself a Christian minister, but his actions resemble a self-styled hatemonger with no room in his heart for the love of God or the forgiveness taught in Christs Gospel. Phelps has...
View ArticleMSU Professor Says Funeral Protest Ban Should Be Thrown Out
created: 3/8/2006 8:26:18 AM updated: 3/8/2006 8:29:11 AM SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) -- A Missouri State University professor says a new state law that limits protests at funerals is so broad that it...
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