Ah, the crazy is growing fast and furious on the ground, and your Intrepid Traveler has but to stoop ever so slightly to pick both hands full. This is the Weekend Holyland Update, flight 11-20-09, taking off from the fields of suicidal nationalism and passing through the lands of political shenanigan… Read full post »

Welcome one and all aboard the Weekend Holyland Update, Improv Version Flight 111609 taking off from sunny San Diego, touching down in sunnier Arizona and various NFL points east, while simultaneously throwing out some of the current stuff happening in points way east, like off the compass east. You… Read full post »

Welcome aboard the slightly belated Weekend Holiday Update, flight 110909, touring the regions of "Irony is deadistan", "grovelland", the village of "sweet symbolism", the settlement of "insanity and denial" and the stadiums of escapist dreams. Please fasten your seatbelts as your regular pilot, aide… Read full post »

You know how if something was portrayed in a parody skit you'd say it was a lame joke on account of being too blunt, or in other words "you can't imagine it happening" - only it did? This a Weekday Holyland Update special charter flight, number 102009, leaving sane reality as… Read full post »

Remember the anti-gay terror attack? Turns out the cops may have done some work after all. Of course we can't actually know whether they did or didn't, cause they have one of their ridiculous post-barn-break total gag orders on anything to do with the case. This is the Weekend Holyland update,… Read full post »

Please fasten your seatbelts for the first takeoff of a WHU flight in over a month, featuring a behind the scenes look at the core corruption of the occupation, plus other riveting tidbits of this sad and poignant eco-tour of a wildlife-preserve-as-it-unravels. Fear not, the aircraft is insulated an… Read full post »

I usually refrain from writing or commenting on posts dealing with the nature of Open Salon itself. This is not due to a lack of opinion on the matter, as I am rather disappointed personally in the prevailing nature of the material that appears on the site, in the relatively… Read full post »

Oy, kinderlach*, what to tell you? I’m not feeling so well, and I’m on a deadline, but since I already blew that (thanks, summer vacation!) and need an extension, so I might as well do a little update, so as not to let a second week go by without a dispatch.… Read full post »

Even though I'm still sweating bullets here in the holyland, the calendar insists that fall, and football season with it, are just around the corner. And football season means fantasy football - the greatest invention in sports in decades.

Warden Glynn (that's my ff alter-ego) will once again do bat… Read full post »

A week after I said it, a few individuals of no less import, plus some polling services, are twigging to the truth too. Contrary to what some blithe scribe at the WaPo (aka the paper you can buy access to) tried to sell, it's not that Obama's supporters are "taking the… Read full post »

Personally? I don't count golf as a sport. Not on the same level as your major sports, core track and field or swimming. It's just not. It's an athletic endeavor, to be sure, but...

Leaving that aside, however, and even ascribing to the American-led PoV that counts the exploits of… Read full post »

Update: I dunno how I forgot this delicious bit of Irony, but Hamas just concluded its first full fledged battle against Islamic terrorism. Yeah, I said against. Some AQ flavored nutcase barricaded himself in a mosque in Rafah (southern tip of the Gaza Strip) and declared the Gaza Strip an Islamic… Read full post »

Barry, my man!

 'sok, you keep running on the treadmil while I waste my facetime with you on gloating. Well, it's not all gloating cause you ain't done, but we'll get to your silver lining after I give you a touch of grey to the nose. 

Did Rahm give… Read full post »

Welcome aboard. That's ok, that's dry blood over there, where an unknown gunman walked into a basement gay teenagers club and bravely emptied two clips into the boys and girls and young adults seeking refuge there. Never fear, though. Around here, blood is a staple and there's always some fresh brewi… Read full post »

Update: Death count is now back at 2, apparently. A 26 y/o man and a 16 y/o girl. Still with 10 wounded, at what definitely looks like a hate crime that took place tonight (Aug 1)  in Tel Aviv,  at a civil rights union for GLBT youth  gathering. A gunman dressed… Read full post »

Hubba, hubba, hubba, step right up, one and all, to the gruesome tour behind the scenes of a nation in decay. This is the Weekend Holyland Update flight 072509, de-klanned but fully and viciously hazed, gleefully hunting down its weakest and most exploited, inept in highest offices, and selling off i… Read full post »

Welcome, intrepid travelers, to Jehovah's beat up flying day-glo VW bus, painted blue, white, green, yellow and lotsa red, with the slogan "backwurds" on the front hood, carrying all sorts of dour pranksters careening at dangerous speeds over various scenery of great historic significance. This is th… Read full post »

Every day lately brings another rash or flatulence indicating the creeping takeover of virulently xenophobic theocracy in Israel. Welcome to the Weekend Holyland Update, flight 071109, where we'll do a roundup of all the recent outbreaks of Jehovaism threatening the remnants of the liberal, modern na… Read full post »

The other day I pick up my son from his much enjoyed littled day/care summer camp (they have a pool in the yard, and all different kinds of games and toys and things to do, and he loves it). Anyway, I pick him up and it's quite a walk back so… Read full post »

My country has gone insane. Just letting y'all know in advance. Buckle up, and abandon all hope ye who do. This is the Weekend Holyland Update, flight 070509. Your inflight entertainment will include a rare sneak peak at a new Irish masterpiece in the making called “Ballad of Ramle Gaol”,… Read full post »

Buncha stuff I forgot to include in the last update, plus one fresh off the bolanger's oven:

During a tour in south Tel Aviv, homeland security minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch, member  of the racist "Israel Beteinu" party, met with a scruffy undercover cop policing Tel Aviv's more modest n… Read full post »

OK, I promised y'all the rest of the news from the suddenly less interesting western end of the Middle East, but as usual life is what happened as we were busy making other plans. Please fasten your seat belts as we embark on the WHU connection flight no. 280609 touching down… Read full post »

Welcome to Isra-hell. This is WHU flight 230609, and a very Merry (albeit belated) Solstice to all of you. At this point the captain would like to direct your attention to the windows as we are flying over a temporal anomaly vortex caused by a perfectly normal brain thrown off… Read full post »

Goddess knows our president has faults. He has big ears. He has a wife we're not yet sure he deserves. He has Bush stains here and there on his face (for which his rear end has a standing appointment with the tip o'me boot). But one thing cannot be denied -… Read full post »

My therapist (back when I could afford such non-essentials) used to tell me that my main problem is that I don't know how to be sad. Angry - that I do really well. Sadness not so much.

Well, since this topic makes me sad, I guess I can get therapy… Read full post »