Edward G Nilges's blog

Nonsense prevails, modesty fails
Grace and virtue turn into stupidity
While the calendar fades almost all barricades to a pale compromise
And our leaders have feasts on the backsides of beasts
They still think they're the gods of antiquity
If something you missed didn't even exist
It was just an ideal -- is it such a surprise?

What shall we do, what shall we do with all this useless beauty?
All this useless beauty

Thanks for nothing, Ms. Sierra

Let us now praise famous men

"When I think of these people [his former Republican allies] I get sick to my stomach and I want to throw up"

Barry Goldwater

A British schoolteacher has been arrested in Sudan accused of insulting Islam's Prophet, after she allowed her pupils to name a teddy bear Muhammad.

Colleagues of Gillian Gibbons, 54, from Liverpool, said she made an "innocent mistake" by letting the six and seven-year-olds choose the name.

Mom, Alex called the President Hitler! Make him stop! He's a booger!

...Up Tom Paine did run
"I'm sorry, sir", he said to me
"I'm sorry for what she'd done".

The beatings will continue until morale improves

I'll never be your beast of burden
My back is broad but its a hurting
All I want is for you to make love to me
Ill never be your beast of burden
Ive walked for miles my feet are hurting
All I want is for you to make love to me

Am I hard enough
Am I rough enough
Am I rich enough
Im not too blind to see