Hammer Mill Days

Yeah, put it out to the curb. Don't complain. We could live in a lousier neighborhood. At least here, we have curbs. Think about it, man. No, really.... THINK. Oh, hi. Glad to see you were able to take the time to stop by and read my little screed. Always edifying to see what your friends in Big Green are up to, eh? Perhaps edifying is not the right word. How about, better than cleaning toilets? If so, I would have to agree. (Of course, I have a proprietary interest here, I declare.) You caught us in the midst of a little house cleaning. As you may know, we are preparing for our upcoming interstellar tour, which we are calling ENTER THE MIND 2010 - THE ULTIMATE BIG GREEN EXPERIENCE. Actually, I just tagged that last piece on at the request of Admiral Gonutz, our tour promoter. He seems to think we have a tendency to undersell. (Personally, the fact that we're selling at all feels like overselling to me. But I digress.) Gonutz is just full of ideas, like a freaking jelly donut....

Would that the late Boris Karloff were still with us. Someone might be able to convince him to do a reworking of the "Monster Mash" that would fit the lunatic rantings of right-wing blogger Pam Geller: They did the mosque! (They did the monster mosque!) Yes, Geller referred to the proposed Muslim community center two blocks from the World Trade Center as the "monster mosque." But it's far too easy to simply heap opprobrium upon pathetic paranoid freaks like her. No, it's the established right-wing media and much of our political class that has kept this ball in the air for the past week. Such a remarkable nation we live in - one in which people crow about our constitutional freedoms and yet run hysterically from them whenever they are put to the test. Political figures from every corner of the country have been climbing over each other to denounce the "mosque" as inappropriate, insensitive, unacceptable, "sacrilege" (Charles Krauthammer),...