Apparently George W. Bush will not be corresponding with family and friends via email while he's President of the United States. I guess that's a good thing seeing as he can't seem to safely articulate himself even in public.
I was watching The Spin Room on CNN last night and caught this interesting and amusing snippet of conversation between hosts Bill Press, Tucker Carlson and guest author/actor Malachy McCourt:
Bill Press: Now, my first question to you is I was shocked today, I've always -- I've known all my life about St. Patrick, the patron saint of the Irish, I learned today that he was actually born in England and captured as a slave when he was 16 and taken to Ireland. You mean to tell me that you Irish all this time have been singing the praises to some Brit?
Malachy McCourt: Yeah. We're suckers for matinee idols. No, he was captured by Niall of the Nine Hostages and brought to Ireland and put to work on the hills, and there he fell in love with sheep, but then he escaped and went back to wherever the hell he went to.
But then he decided to come back and convert the Irish, and they thought, oh well, he talks -- he speaks a good line, so let him in, and off he went, and the next thing they're all Catholic and a perfectly good pagan civilization was totally ruined by this man.
Tucker Carlson: So, that is the genesis of the anger at the British then?
Malachy McCourt: Well, we're not really angry at them. How can you get angry at your inferiors?
I continue to believe that publishers will let anyone write a book. While my previous rants have focused on the fact that the computer book publishing market will take anyone who writes a half-way legible book proposal littered with technical jargon the Village Voice has proved that it's not just tech paperbacks that fall within this category.
One title, David L. Buhlman's Final Warning, billed as "an adventure story about a bleak near future that may be more likely than most would care to admit," imagines life after a takeover by the pagan-feminist New World Way. "In order to control population growth, people are put to death at age sixty, abortions are forced, and the sickness of pedophilia is legalized and encouraged. But with boys only, not girls. Girls are protected because they are identified with the goddess Gaia, the religious myth that undergirds the New World Way. The mainline Christian denominations are forced to insinuate the Gaian rituals into all religious ceremonies, and religious leaders who would not cooperate are imprisoned." The novel also features cloned ratmen who probably aren't Christian either.
Herbal Rules of Etiquette #1: Never apply Tea Tree Oil to your skin when guests are in the room - especially if they are prone to smell-induced migraines.
*sigh*
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