"Don't Compromise Yourself.  It's All You've Got"

Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz ?
My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends,
So Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz ?

Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a color TV ?
Dialing For Dollars is trying to find me.
I wait for delivery each day until three,
So oh Lord, won’t you buy me a color TV ?

Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a night on the town ?
I’m counting on you, Lord, please don’t let me down.
Prove that you love me and buy the next round,
Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a night on the town ?

Flying Dog Brewery introduces
GONZO IMPERIAL PORTER
in honour of HST

Gonzo Imperial Porter will be released in early June 
in a unique Gonzo illustrated four pack. A limited edition,
750ml bottle will also be available from the brewery's
tasting room - the first 100 of these will be
signed by Ralph Steadman.

Like Hunter this beer is deep and complex.
Gonzo Imperial Porter has been brewed with black,
chocolate and crystal malts, and hopped with
Millennium and Cascades. This is a turbo charged version
of the Road Dog and at 9.5% ABV it will bite you in the ass
if you don't show it the proper respect. 

LONG LIVE GONZO

$1 from each case sold and $10 from each of the 
signed Steadman bottles will go towards building
the Gonzo Memorial Fist in Aspen. The 150 foot stone
column complete with a giant red fist at its summit
will tower above Hunter’s Owl Farm Estate for all eternity.

Would Hunter have approved? 
Well we’ll never know for sure, however,
a swarm of bats was seen hovering over the brewery
the other day, so we're taking that as a thumbs up.

Adam and His First Wife Lilith

Profile of Creation Museum founder

We've posted before about the $25 million Creation Museum set to open near Cincinnati, Ohio. Today's Cincinnati Enquirer has a long profile of founder Ken Ham. In the article, Jerry Falwell says that Ham is "the most informed creationist in American" and that the museum is "going to be a mini-Disney World." From the Enquirer article, here are a few of Ham's beliefs:

 

Earth is about 6,000 years old, a figure arrived at by tracing the biblical genealogies, and not 4.5 billion years, as mainstream scientists say.

The Grand Canyon was formed not by erosion over millions of years, but by floodwaters in a matter of days or weeks.

Dinosaurs and man once co-existed (see accompanying Enquirer photo), and dozens of the creatures - including T-rex - were passengers on the ark built by Noah, who was a real man, not a myth.

Link to Enquirer article, and Link to Scientific American's "15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense" (Thanks, Charles Pescovitz!)

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Prophecy

On September 12, 2001

Hunter S. Thompson wrote: 

"The towers are gone now,
reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or in any other country. 
 Make no mistake about it:  We are at
War now-with somebody-and we will stay At War 
with that mysterious enemy for
the rest of our lives. It will be a Religious War, a sort of Christian
Jihad, fueled by religious hatred and led by merciless fanatics on both
sides. It will be guerilla warfare on a global scale, with no front lines
and no identifiable enemy. We are going to punish somebody for this attack,
but just who or what will be blown to smithereeens for it is hard to say.
Maybe Afghanistan, maybe Pakistan or Iraq, or possibly all three at
once. Victory is not guaranteed-for anyone,
 and certainly not for anyone as
baffled as George W. Bush. 
He will declare a National Security Emergency and
clamp down Hard on Everybody, no matter where they live or why.
 If the guilty won't hold up their hands and confess,
 he and the Generals will ferret them out by force.
 He is in for a profoundly difficult job-armed as
he is with no credible Military Intelligence, no witnesses and only the
ghost of Bin Laden to blame for the tragedy."

THE EDITOR STRIKES BACK
Last week, someone directed the Catholic Civil Rights League (CCRL)
to the Mike Constable cartoon which appears on this page. 

(Click the Pope to see it)
Under the headline, Canadian Government Caught Funding 
Anti-Catholic Website Bashing Pope Benedict, the CCRL sent 
out a press release and began a letter-writing 
campaign to rabble.ca. Let me tell you about the letters.
by Sharon Fraser

Police in Germany are hunting pranksters
who have been sticking miniature flag portraits
of US President George W. Bush into piles of dog poo 
in public parks. Josef Oettl, parks administrator for
Bayreuth, said: "This has been going on for about a
year now, and there must be 2,000 to 3,000 piles of
excrement that have been claimed during that time."
Legal experts say there is no law against
using feces as a flag stand and the federal
legal experts say there is no law against using
feces as a flag stand and the federal constitution
is vague on the issue.