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Mother Blows Nose

By Adam Minihan | August 15, 2014

“The most terrifying and hilarious horror comedy of the summer! An emotional roller coaster of fear and delight! Two enthusiastic thumbs up!”

I love Steve Ray

By Adam Minihan | August 15, 2014

A good man, a good friend, and the salt of the earth. The man is fearless. There aren’t many people I can confidently say would go to their tortured death shouting the Creed and praying for his murderers (and certainly not me, who you will probably find curled in a fetal position). But Steve Ray…

The Assumption of Mary

By Adam Minihan | August 15, 2014

…is being celebrated over at the Register by Yr. Obdt. Svt.

Greatest Salesman Evar!

By Adam Minihan | August 15, 2014

Salesmanship as Performance Art:I’d pay the guy for the show even if I didn’t buy anything.

Nixon Steps in to Rein in Warrior Cops

By Adam Minihan | August 15, 2014

(Now there’s a headline that would have sounded weird 40 years ago.)Here’s what’s happening:FERGUSON, Mo. — Suddenly, everything has changed.The heavy riot armor, the SWAT trucks with sniper posts, the hostile glares: tonight in Ferguson they were gone.A stunning change in tone radiated through the suburban streets where protests had turned violent each of the…

Conflicting Gun Violence Narratives

By Adam Minihan | August 14, 2014

So, a couple of years ago, the jiu jitsu on the Right about gun violence against blacks was the standard “We need more guns” panacaea that always comes from Gun Culture.  Here’s the inimitable Ann Coulter issuing the standard party line: All would be well if black people went around armed to the teeth, ready…

France, Australia, even Syria are opening the doors to Iraqi refugees

By Adam Minihan | August 14, 2014

But still the Obama Administration is doing nothing to give asylum to the desperate refugee population that the US, more than any country in the world, is responsible for creating.I hear the president is having a very restful vacation.

When did Missouri become an Iron Curtain Country?

By Adam Minihan | August 14, 2014

News crew tear gassed and their equipment dismantled.What’s interesting and creepy (to me as a blogger) is that as real journalists are harrassed and intimidated and arrested by the Glorious Democratic Police Army of Ferguson, the reportage depends on private citizen with cellphone, Twitter and Youtube. The problem is that a lot of this is…

Weaponized Goon Police in Ferguson, MO

By Adam Minihan | August 14, 2014

…protect the living daylights out of reporters and journalists who were typing very, very dangerously When our police state decides you are allowed to know what they are doing, selected State Information Agents will be permitted to repeat what they are told. Go back to your TV and shopping. Nothing to see here. Move along.

Wait for it. The penny will drop

By Adam Minihan | August 14, 2014