Salt City Sinner

"Idiot wind, blowin' every time you move your teeth You're an idiot, babe   It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe."   Bob Dylan, "Idiot Wind" Big Joe Kovacs likes to bang out the occasional column (and more than occasional New Age Christian Self Help Book ) at Big Joe Farah's WorldNetDaily , a publication of some repute that   I believe   I have   commented on   a time   or two  before. As with Glenn Beck, there will eventually come a point at which I have to take a few steps back from WND, which (and this is my coinage, thank you very much) is the most right-wing website on the entire Internet other than Stormfront. WND likes to keep the Christian Identity and white supremacy nestled beneath a decorative frosting of "legitimacy." What does Joe Kovacs do to keep things spicy? Oh, well, how abou- Wait, I ... what? This "journalist": Joe Kovacs is ready to shock you with the Bible, or with el...

On the off chance that you do not  have a partially infected USB plug installed in the back of your head into which your brainstem receives news (and please, gods, count yourself lucky if that is the case) there is a chance you haven't heard of Trayvon Martin . The long and short of the story is this: a black teenager named Trayvon Martin (armed with an iced tea and a bag of Skittles) was shot and killed by a neighborhood watch captain named George Zimmerman. Due to some convoluted gun nut laws in Florida, where this took place, the shooter has not been charged with anything. On a personal note, this has led me to reconsider my views on personal defense laws and gun rights, but that's a story for another day. In solidarity, OccupySLC hosted the following tonight: My schedule lately has bordered on the amusing and played slap-and-tickle with the insane, but I felt I had to be there for this. I was right in my instincts. The March for Trayvon was insane . The crowd tha...

I'm not so sure how Colin Powell or Condoleezza Rice would feel about that.