Got you, you creepy old warhawk sonofabitch.

Bob Schieffer nailed Rumsfeld's ass to the wall on "Face The Nation", and with Rummy's own words.

This week's entrant into the "What crack is this idiot smoking?" department..

Dennis Prager, come on down!

I quote:

"America is engaged in two wars for the survival of its civilization. The war over same-sex marriage and the war against Islamic totalitarianism are actually two fronts in the same war -- a war for the preservation of the unique American creation known as Judeo-Christian civilization."

Did you get that, folks? America created Judeo-Christian civilization. Okayyyyyyyyyyy, sparky! The nice young men in the clean white coats will be along presently.

Still think this isn't about repression?

Think again:

Ministers charged for marrying gay couples in New York, AP says.

( Behind this cut is the AP article in question. )

The Religious/Far Reich needs to be slapped down, and it needs to be slapped down hard. November can't get here fast enough.

I should add that the above was snagged from the ever-redoubtable sinboy.

Radio Nosferatu - A query

As most of you know, I (and the rest of our merry band) have been running Radio Nosferatu for about two years now. In all that time, I think our highest number of listeners has been six. That's a whole lot of money and a whole lot of time put in and for next to no listener feedback.

Most times, the only listener is our own Smoky, and that because it's his machine out there on the left coast that's our dedicated machine.

I'm forced to ask myself, is it because of our format? It's 90 percent gothic/industrial, with a few other bits and bobs thrown in. The reason I ask myself about that is, there's ten million other stations out there doing exactly what we're doing (and doing it as well or better than us in most cases), and most of those have very loyal dedicated listener bases that just aren't going to switch.

My question is this - and bear in mind this is only a question - do you think we'd reach a broader audience if we played a broader range of styles? For a long time now, my friends and I have been doing "Radio Free Callahan's" on the weekends as a venue for playing our favorite tunes and have been having a lot of fun with it. As I sincerely doubt Spider would let us make money with the Callahan's name (and rightly so), I thought why not make it "Radio Harmony". It would be thus be named after the planet a certain member of that splendid fiction and their family come from and would thus pay tribute to the series without unduly impinging on Mr. Robinson's copyrights. It would also more closely reflect a quality I think is desperately needed in this benighted day and age.

This would open the station up to a far broader range of styles and listener bases (and thus advertising revenues, let's not kid ourselves) and fulfill a dream I've had for quite a long time now of having a sort of public access station for pretty much whoever wants to submit a program that doesn't irritate the hell out of me.

I'm in the process of getting the station all nice and legal via a licensing co-op, so just about anything could be played without getting our asses sued off.

I ABSOLUTELY NEED TO STRESS that I have not gone out and unilaterally changed the station. I wanted to throw this out for discussion, but I feel down deep in my heart that this would work better. But I absolutely want to hear what you good people think.