Of course all of us know halfwits. But if we seriously think about it, we all know quarter-wits, eighth-wits and sixteenth-wits as well—you know, those who look up to mere halfwits as role models!
[...]Of course all of us know halfwits. But if we seriously think about it, we all know quarter-wits, eighth-wits and sixteenth-wits as well—you know, those who look up to mere halfwits as role models!
[...]Yes, truly transfixed as I watched Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal give the Republican response to President Obama’s Tuesday night speech of February 24, 2009—transfixed by one of the most god-awful spectacles in U.S. political history. Move over, Sarah Palin; in this still sexist society, move over for the male Sarah [...]
Barack Obama, as we know, has been directly accused of “palling around” with “domestic terrorist” Bill Ayers because his first political meeting was in the home of Ayers and his wife Bernadine Dohrn, another member of the Weather Underground of the late 1960s and 1970s, even though neither were present [...]
Poor hapless John McCain! He thought he’s scored a coup when he chose Sarah Palin to be his running mate, but his putative Veep has shown herself to be more a liability than an asset. Although she initially shored up McCain’s wavering support among the evangelical Christians and the hard-core [...]
While the McCain campaign tries to tar Obama with the "celebrity" brush by aligning him with a supposedly certified "celebrity bimbo," Britney Spears, it's important to recall that Ms. Spears gave an interview with CNN shortly after the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 in which the interviewer asked her, [...]
The following "Farewell Address" was given by me at the meeting of the Indianapolis Community-Faith-Labor Coalition on August 2, 2008. It has been emended for clarity and accuracy, and a new paragraph added--GF
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The lead editorial by Ron Haldeman in the August, 2008 issue of the Indianapolis Peace & [...]
Written especially for all of us whose mothers were truly mothers (as in that compound word that begins with “mother” and is followed by a second word that begins with “f.”)
Well, it’s May 11, 2008, Mother’s Day. A day to get sentimental about Mother, celebrate fulsomely how our mother contributed [...]
A good-natured dig at my friend Jim Wolfe, who gets carried away at times with his religious earnestness--GF
Jim Wolfe, who just recently became past President of the Indianapolis Peace & Justice Center (IPJC) when his term expired in April, is a nice guy, an ordained Presbyterian minister, and professor in [...]
Everything has its price, and the cost of the Indianapolis Colts’ new Lucas Oil Stadium portends to be exorbitant for the taxpayers of Marion County, where Indianapolis is situated. But the cost is genteelly hidden, so the taxpayers are liable to overlook what this new toy for the Colts is [...]
I, George Fish, born and raised a mackerel snapper, followed my own lights, and because of this, sang a dissonant tuna; this caused me to flounder, and thus be cast to the clerical sharks.
[...]FORSOOTH!
by George Fish
A few months back, when I had routine business to conduct at Indianapolis’ City-County Building, I had in my knapsack a small pair of scissors I’d used earlier to cut some tape to seal an envelope for mailing. My scissors was duly confiscated by security at the [...]
For some reason or other, a certain section of the Indianapolis arts and culture community decided to make 2007 the Year of Kurt Vonnegut. While it was initially announced with a bang, it went out with barely a whimper; hardly even noticed, yet alone commemorated. 2007 was also the year [...]
From mid-September to mid-November, 2007, I worked as a substitute teacher in the Lawrence Township school system, on the northeast side of Indianapolis. For the most part, I substitute taught in the middle and high schools of this “better” school system than that of the central city, Indianapolis Public Schools.
The real meaning of 9/11 is this: Uncle Sam, the bullying crapper on the rest of the world and the American people themselves, got crapped on, and he whines and cries like a baby! And just like bullies everywhere when they get their comeuppance, Uncle Sam shows he can sure [...]
Idianapolis's Corner Coffee Cafe, a significant venue for independent culture here, colsed on Saturday, July 28. It hopes to reopen, but so far has not found a new location to replace the one it left at 251 E. 11th Street, on the edge of downtown. It does hope to find [...]
Hi all!
I'm a new blogger here, encouraged to become so by Bloomington Alternative Editor Stephen Higgs. I'm also an iconoclastic writer now living in Indianapolis, an IU-Bloomington grad, and just born hell-raiser. Here's my first submission, a little rap song I created on the downside of Hoosierdom. I'd be very [...]
