http://www.barrycrimmins.com en the Blog of Barry Crimmins, Political Satirist. http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=9091 By Barry Crimmins Terrible news. My friend, Joyce Brabner, found her husband and my friend, Harvey Pekar, dead in their Cleveland Heights, Ohio home very early this morning. Harvey was 70 years old. He was also a brilliant chronicler of our timesOmicro ... Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:05:02 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=9091 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=9175 When I was a kid we were taught that one easy way to demonstrate the superiority of the American system of capitalism over the Soviet system of communism was to compare farming in the USA to that in the USSR. My teachers made the same compelling case, n ... Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:41:48 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=9175 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=Cath-22&display=9166 By Barry Crimmins Anyone who has read the previous three parts of this series has likely surmised that my enmity for the Catholic church is personal. It certainly is. A problem I have with most church critics is that they almost always stop and genuflec ... Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:30:46 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=Cath-22&display=9166 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=Cath-22&display=9162 By Barry Crimmins As a weekend waned last March, I wouldn t have even known it was Palm Sunday had I not left the local news on after a college basketball game concluded. A top story featured Archbishop Timothy Dolan of the Archdiocese of New York unleas ... Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:29:55 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=Cath-22&display=9162 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=Cath-22&display=9159 If you read my previous post you know the Catholic church has started a campaign aimed at bringing back people who have left the wretched institution. These so-called fallen-away Catholics either: Spit the patriarchal bit of an arcane religion Or ass ... Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:28:28 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=Cath-22&display=9159 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=Cath-22&display=9154 BROAD MENTAL RESERVATION Speech that limits the meaning of what is said but contains a reasonable clue to the sense intended. No lie is involved, because what is said really has two meanings. The two meanings are present either by reason of the words th ... Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:27:26 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=Cath-22&display=9154 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=9151 Hello everyone, Below is a letter from my friend Anne Feeney. Anne is a wonderful folksinger who was among the first to come to my aid just a few weeks ago. She wrote from Sweden, fresh from an emergency room. At the time she thought her health problems w ... Sun, 08 Aug 2010 16:48:39 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=9151 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=9150 I ll be offline for a few days while Apple replaces the trackpad on my computer. Thankfully it s under warranty -- although after the second person sniffed about me only having two months remaining of protection I had to say, "Yeah, it s a good thing I di ... Sun, 08 Aug 2010 11:37:02 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=9150 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=9131 The short version of yesterday s much too long post %2014goes as follows: Once I found my voice and spoke up for myself, many of you heard me and helped in a variety of very significant ways. This resulted in a great improvement in attitude and health for ... Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:21:15 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=9131 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=9128 NOTE: I moved this off the feature page because I thought it was too long. Then I heard from a doctor in the comments section and realized this needs to be as available as possible-- BC) A week ago today, life was closing in on me. A doctor s appointme ... Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:50:57 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=9128 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=9105 By Barry Crimmins Yesterday I went to a doctor for a preliminary consultation for a colonoscopy. The entire procedure was to be covered by a state agency because I am 57 years oldOmicron have no health insuranceOmicron and a family history of colon cance ... Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:05:46 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=9105 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=9125 Friday was a big day around here. It started with an appearance on 3-2-1 Henry, with old friend Henry Santoro and his Breakfast Show cohorts Keith and Fletcher on WFNX 101.1 FM in Boston. You can download the podcast of our quick countdown of the week s t ... Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:11:40 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=9125 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=9117 I felt a bit leery as I entered the doctor s office the other day. It wasn t so much the forty-foot flagpole adorned with the Stars and Stripes that remind us that we have the greatest healthcare in the world that put me off, it was the fact that the doct ... Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:57:29 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=9117 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=9120 Text and Typos By Barry Crimmins Regardless of geography, we re all feeling a tropical depression over the Gulf. Thanks to Andrew Breitbart, we now know what Joseph McCarthy could have done with Final Cut Pro. And we know what kind of cowardice would gr ... Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:03:44 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=9120 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=9059 By Barry Crimmins Listening to the following jingoistic inanities is a small price to pay on this sacred date so put down that breakfast pizza, America, and fork over your ears. I commence by reminding you that as %2014liberty-loving people, our obliga ... Sun, 04 Jul 2010 16:25:54 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=9059 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=9055 Had Judge Jack B. Weinstein simply questioned rigid federal sentencing guidelines to justify overturning the conviction in his courtroom of Pietro Polizzi, "a married father of five... for possession of over 5,000 graphic images of child pornography... mo ... Wed, 26 May 2010 13:17:35 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=9055 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=child_abuse&display=317 By Barry Crimmins Part One: Preface In my years as a political satirist I ve met some rather persistent members of what even I would call the fringe element. From followers of Lyndon Larouche, to members of certain communist cells (that would have even f ... Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:25:52 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=child_abuse&display=317 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=9043 By Barry Crimmins You probably wish former New York Congressman Eric Massa would just go away. It s not so easy for me. You see, "away" for Massa is just a few miles from where I live. So I guess I better get in front of this sad story -- or at least upw ... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:16:31 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=9043 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=political_satirist_Barry_Crimmins&display=431 In my hometown of Skaneateles, NY there are many palatial dwellings. As a boy I earned meager wages mowing the lawns, shoveling the walks, weeding the gardens and painting the interiors and exteriors of many of these stately domiciles. I never much liked ... Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:37:03 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=political_satirist_Barry_Crimmins&display=431 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=9040 Note: Here is a note I wrote to my dear friend, Tom Duffy. It concerns ten years of uncomplaining generosity on his part. Left to his own devices he d probably delete my remarks, so I figured I d pass them along to the readers of this blog. I should hope ... Sat, 13 Feb 2010 04:13:09 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=9040 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=9026 (NOTE: The following expands on some thoughts I posted upon first hearing the news of the passing of Dr. Howard Zinn) Howard Zinn s voice, his literal voice, is what I will always remember best about him. Measured, wise, gentle and kind, his calmly asser ... Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:37:41 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=9026 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=quotes&family=&category=&display=730 ... Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:53:03 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=quotes&family=&category=&display=730 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=quotes&family=&category=&display=729 ... Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:52:43 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=quotes&family=&category=&display=729 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=quotes&family=&category=&display=738 ... Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:51:15 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=quotes&family=&category=&display=738 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=quotes&family=&category=&display=727 ... Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:45:01 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=quotes&family=&category=&display=727 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=9017 I know you re upset about Massachusetts and you re looking to lash out. Well you ve come to the wrong place because I ve got some lashing of my own to do. %2014 OK... I ve had it with people who think political activism equals permanent servitude to a De ... Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:46:31 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=9017 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=9015 Genuine respect for the sincerity and wisdom of some of my friends who have all but restarted the doomsday clock notwithstanding, I don t feel that much is hinging on today s Massachusetts senatorial election. The lofty agenda that was rhetorically prom ... Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:18:36 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=9015 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=9024 Here s to our heroic, learned, brilliant, patient, compassionate, generous, and very funny friend, Howard Zinn, who passed away this afternoon. He leaves a legacy of truth, inspiration and optimism. His kind and wizened voice will always be what I hear wh ... Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:57:00 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=9024 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=9007 By Barry Crimmins My intention for today was to rise early, get out of my own damned way and write something uplifting that would serve as an appreciative holiday note to all my friends and loved ones. Lord knows such an effort is long overdue. It is now ... Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:18:51 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=9007 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=8997 It s too bad there are no encores once life ends because Kevin Knox certainly deserved at least a few of them. Knox s rise in the Boston and national comedy scenes came at a time when I d left the comedy rooms for concert and union halls, coffee houses ... Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:14:07 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=8997 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=8987 I am very fortunate to be able to say that Ken Ober and I were friends for about 30 years. On the long-ago day he walked into the Ding Ho Comedy Club in Cambridge, Ma. to do a guest set to demonstrate his already advanced skills as a stand-up comic, Kenn ... Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:12:18 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=8987 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=8985 What better way to celebrate Veterans Day than to awake to news that a criminally insane former soldier has been executed for carrying out psychotic assignments, much better left to a drone? Johnny Muhammad, the infamous D.C. Sniper, was as deranged as t ... Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:16:56 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=8985 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=8979 Some readers have written to express disappointment over my failure/refusal to write enough (or any) entertaining news analysis for them of late. Sorry to have let this vocal minority down but there is a least a reason for my inactivity -- I fell paralyz ... Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:08:24 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=8979 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=Pre-existing_outrage&display=8969 Sen. Max Baucus (Influence redistributionist - Mt), %2014is the most bought-and-paid-for of scores of legislators who ve been bought-and-paid-for by deep-pocketed, shallow-souled medical racketeers. This money-grubbing goon squad has spent the year dispen ... Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:21:02 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=Pre-existing_outrage&display=8969 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=child_abuse&display=8940 Compared to the average humorist, I m a tad reticent to comment upon sensational cult of personality stories. I feel they re a distraction from what we should be considering. On occasion, however, they involve something truly important. For instance, act ... Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:17:36 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=child_abuse&display=8940 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=newsletters&family=&category=&display=8941 Sorry to have been absent so long. I am working on a very difficult project that I hope will prove worthy of the effort. For now I have written this essay http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news%FCfamily=%FCcategory=child_abuse%FCdisplay=8940 ... Sat, 26 Sep 2009 11:10:48 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=newsletters&family=&category=&display=8941 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=8929 Reading Laura Jacobs homage to Julia Child, I couldn t help but feel a tad of shame for my long ago participation in a predawn incident with my old pal, Lenny Clarke. Here is how I told the story in my book Never Shake Hands With A War Criminal (availab ... Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:53:59 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=8929 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=newscomment&family=&category=&display=8928 Problem I need help with. (closure on past life) ... Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:34:11 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=newscomment&family=&category=&display=8928 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=1963 This one goes out to Dubyahoo and if you see Dick Cheney and happen to chain him to that wheelchair before shoving him into the Potomac, please know I d be happy to pay your thirty cent fine. We are, after all, all in this together. I remain busy finishi ... Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:41:50 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=1963 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=1700 My dear friend and comedic comrade Bob Lazarus passed away last night after losing a monumental struggle with leukemia. Always the easy sort, Laz left us only one date to remember him by: January 4. In 1956 it marked his debut on the planet and exactly 53 ... Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:07:59 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=1700 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=1575 Sincere thanks to James Wolcott for his recent link to my 2008 salute to sportsmen. Further thanks to all the folks who have responded with advice about my arthritis. My hands were screwed up playing ball as a kid. 35 years later when I do stuff like sp ... Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:45:55 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=1575 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=1569 You may be fretting over which obscenely wealthy person Barack Obama will name to represent us to a world full of paupers but I have other people to worry about. They re everywhere, including and especially at the borders of the private property upon whi ... Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:32:19 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=1569 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=1563 Today s quotes Anyone who says there is a reverse Bradley effect is smoking crack. -- Joe Scarborough Pass the pipe. -- Barry Crimmins Please place your hand on the bag-- %2014The first thing Chief Justice Roberts will say to President-elect Obama befo ... Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:53:07 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=1563 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=1558 For some reason I had a hankering to hear this version of this tune at this time... Play Ball! UPDATE: McCain smacked in the face by LARGE keystone at 8 pm. And several more states rebuke the fight-fight-fighter. This is over. Want to laugh? Check ou ... Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:25:52 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=1558 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=1528 After months of running millimeter-deep, in-depth campaign specials such as America s Choice: War Hero or Semi-historic Negro, cable and network news wags are hanging their last hopes for a long Tuesday night on the notorious "Bradley Effect." Here s the ... Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:30:02 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=1528 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=1551 NOTE: Please forgive the inevitable typos. I will be posting fast and furiously today... I fell asleep with CNN on but was reawakened pretty quickly when the Rev. Wright attack ad with the bleeped out "God damn America" ran so many times that I mistook ... Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:45:45 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=1551 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=1539 Most of the time for the past 28 years at least two-thirds of the American government has been controlled by dangerous reactionaries. The Reagan/ Bush Sr years were literally bloody awful. Death Squads, trumped up wars, traitors dealing arms from the back ... Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:40:05 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=1539 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=1526 Old Man Winter is coming and Old Man Loser is going. But he s not going down without a fight. Way, way down without a dirty, dirty fight. Or, as he would say, "Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!" He even throws in "Stand ... Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:24:05 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=1526 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=1523 Eight years later there are eight days left to complete the shared task of making sure that the Oval Office is once again occupied by a person who has been chosen by the American people rather one who was imposed upon us by the Supremacist Court. The poll ... Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:32:03 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=1523 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=1518 I posted that last post, took the dogs out and came back to several emails with links to a few portions of interviews with Howard Zinn. Thanks to all who made sure I didn t miss them. Optimist Zinn suggests legit reason for hope Howard on bailout and ... Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:21:47 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=1518 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=1515 Here s a review where we re at and in turn, where I stand with under two weeks left in Campaign 2008: Traditional Republican appeals to ignorance, fearfulness, cowardice and bigotry are all that stand between the American people and the delivery of a goo ... Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:38:49 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=1515 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=1511 Last Thursday the cord for my laptop became frayed to the point where it no longer delivered juice to the computer. I called Apple and established that it was under warranty. They promised to "overnight" me a new cord. None arrived on Friday. Or Saturday. ... Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:24:10 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=1511 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=1503 Like almost everyone else today, I come to you to speak of John McCain s Joe the Plumber (one Joe Wurzelbacher, an Ohio worker who asked Barack Obama about his tax plan.) During last night s presidential debate, "Joe the Plumber" was at the center of John ... Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:27:08 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=1503 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=1493 Now that John McCain has Barack Obama "right where he wants him" in state after state after state, it seems likely that (voter suppression and ballot-rigging permitting) the Party of the Pachyderm is about to receive an elephantine thrashing on Nov 4. I ... Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:59:39 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=1493 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=1484 Things are too grim for us to spend much time on the ham-handed attempts by John McCain, his medicine cabinet-rifling wife and his braying running mate to fear monger us out of electing Barack Obama. Frustrated by the growing likelihood that they can t be ... Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:58:56 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=1484 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=1473 On a night when John McCain had to make a game-changing effort, he looked more like a person in need of a diaper change. This could explain why he spent the presidential debate in Nashville shuffling around the stage like a thorazine-dosed patient on the ... Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:58:17 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=1473 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=1452 The album of the year has been released and you can get it for free*, which is also the name of the recording. The artist? Jim s Big Ego. free* contains the antislavery anthem of the new millennium, International. Download it, learn it , sing a ... Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:57:38 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=1452 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=links&family=&category=&display=1498 Streaming primo indy music from DJ Ted. ... Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:55:37 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=links&family=&category=&display=1498 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=links&family=&category=&display=1497 ... Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:52:24 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=links&family=&category=&display=1497 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=links&family=&category=&display=1480 ... Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:29:11 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=links&family=&category=&display=1480 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=links&family=&category=&display=1477 ... Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:31:12 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=links&family=&category=&display=1477 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=1451 Bless your heart, sir, my son is over in Eye-Rack, fighting for your right to protest. -- Sarah Palin, to a purported heckler at a rally yesterday. There s something doubly evil about a self-avowed Christian who prefaces almost every uncharitable remark ... Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:22:09 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=1451 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=links&family=&category=Media&display=328 Fairness %FC Accuracy In Reporting -- Now there s an idea! ... Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:13:06 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=links&family=&category=Media&display=328 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=links&family=&category=&display=1475 ... Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:08:20 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=links&family=&category=&display=1475 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=links&family=&category=&display=1474 ... Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:06:50 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=links&family=&category=&display=1474 http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=1437 I live in the same country, but on a different planet, than many Americans. On my planet the atmosphere for public discourse can t be fogged up by expectations-lowering, ref-riding, spin doctors. On my planet, public speakers with horrendous diction, ... Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:57:16 EST http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?page=news&family=&category=&display=1437