A blog by Tom Sheepandgoats (aka Tom Harley)
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Spinning Cars and Words into the Drink
Some kids were driving on frozen Irondequoit Bay, spinning round and round the way we all love to do in wintertime Rochester, [BTW, nearby Redfield NY has 11 feet of snow, all in the last 2 weeks!] when they discovered the bay was not so frozen as they had thought. Near shore, the ice gave way and down went the car! Of course, this was…
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Eliot Spitzer and the Comptroller
Like in Network, Eliot Spitzer is mad as hell and he's not going to take it anymore! The odd thing is that he's not taken it very long. It was just 6 weeks ago that Spitzer was sworn in as governor, wearing his new Hickey-Freeman suit. But it's clear he means to make his mark. Cross him at your peril The big blowup comes after…
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To Joe Jeanette
They buried a great fighter today,” reported the Jersey Journal. “….a warm friendly man….we shall not see his like again in our time.” Well, not exactly today. It was July 7, 1958. But he was family. So we keep track. Boxing experts called it the most inhuman fight ever staged. Early last century, in 1909 Paris, Joe Jeanette [Jennette] slugged it out with Sam McVey…
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New Two Tier Meeting Prep Service Announced
There's no sense in donning sackcloth of false modesty. Fact is that the Whitepebble Religious Institute is revolutionizing the world of religious study preparation, just like Apple revolutionizing the field of anything they touch with cool gadgets. The Institute launched two exciting new services recently, and held a news conference to maximize momentum. To the oohs and aahs of thrilled reporters, spokesman Tom Wheatandweeds demonstrated a new…
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Psst! Hey….Buddy! Wanna be President?
Everybody is running for President next year, because of easy publicity on the internet. The current President is decidedly unpopular, and I just read a pertinent article: Only 32% of Americans approve of his job performance. Forty three per cent say that his war was a mistake. Critics deride him as too stubborn and inflexible. Others dismiss him as a intellectual lightweight. But the president…
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Getting Along in this Year of the Pig
The missionary spoke to the District Overseer and the District Overseer told the Circuit Assembly. "If you want to know the problem with the American brothers, I'll tell you, said the missionary. It's not materialism. It's not immorality." "The problem with the American brothers is that they can't get along with each other." Was it just me or did I imagine a slight gasp in…
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Psst! Hey…Buddy! Wanna Buy a Scientific Endorsement?
Time was when any yahoo of a preacher could trump any debate by yelling “the Bible says….” It sufficed. Nobody dared say another word. Nor did it make any difference whether the Bible really did say it. Anyone with a clergy collar could say it did and that was enough. Is that the case now with science? Several recent reports suggest that the best way…
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Hezekiah, Rabshakeh, and Sennacherib
Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them. And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller’s field. Then…
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Tombaugh Quits: A Blow for Science
The Whitepebble Religious Institute sadly announces the departure of Tom Tombaugh, it’s most prominent (and only) staff scientist, whose most notable credentials consisted of a claimed relationship to Clyde Tombaugh, founder of the disgraced wannabe planet Pluto. His resignation leaves the institute top-heavy with religious nuts. It was top-heavy before. That’s why it was common knowledge that Tombaugh felt increasingly out of place among the pious ones. Did…
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Hitchhikers and Hoboes
If I had a dollar for every mile I hitchhiked, said the old guy, I wouldn’t be working. Used to be if you wanted to go anywhere, you hitchhiked. Perfectly acceptable, cheap, safe way to get yourself around. You met people. Sometimes you made lasting friendships. The old guy still gets Christmas cards from the person who drove him cross country after his Navy discharge.…