A SATIRICAL ODE TO ROBERT LAVOY FINICUM_ ROBERT LAVOY FINICUM - got a number of folks to grin again. Dressed like Your Highness - in Cabaelas finest he put his tarped self on display. And spouting crude libertariums - his thoughts like a lighted acquarium With fish swimming ‘round - that would start at the sound Of those he held mentally at bay. But like all good things that must end - LaVoy made a couple of friends Who watched their prelate - use his power to bait And get his own poor dumb ass blown away. So if you’re somehow expecting a boy - be sure to name him LaVoy It’s what He would want - being so nonchalant About dying a hero that way. (Donnie Hosie)

A Satirical Ode to Robert LaVoy Finicum

Being more of an extended limerick, really … It reads, A SATIRICAL ODE TO ROBERT LAVOY FINICUM ROBERT LAVOY FINICUM – got a number of folks to grin again. Dressed like Your Highness – in Cabaelas finest He put his tarped self on display. And spouting crude libertariums – his thoughts like a lighted aquarium…

When humans get treated like vermin

Today is Pearl Harbor Day. In fact, December 7 falls on the same day of the week this year – Sunday – as the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor did, in 1941. But many folks living today, might understandably wonder at the United States Victory over Japan, that hinged on a pair of equally infamous…

Deconstructing the hard edge of religion

  Apparently (having never done it myself) folks who go ‘crabbing’ on various Atlantic beaches, in the moonlight, never have to worry about using lids, to keep track of the crabs being tossed into their buckets. And it’s because crabs in a bucket evince a peculiar dog in the manger attitude towards any of their…

Re-examining this God of the gaps

It’s not at all uncommon to encounter any number of agnostic non-believers (no, really – there are such folks), apparently up on all the science, but who are still unable – in good conscience – to tic that last box as confirmed atheists.  Who default to an almost truculent allusion to that old ‘God of the…

American Atheists and Mormon culture

  With the advent of the American Atheists 2014 Convention, in Salt Lake City, Thursday, April 17th, to Sunday, April 20th, there have been many heated discussions – most notably in the comment sections, following stories run in the Salt Lake Tribune, focused and following up on the Atheists of Utah, and the American Atheists…