Hammer Mill Days

That's not a legitimate use of member funds. Take if from me - that would be considered, I don't know, embezzlement or something. Don't do it. Put the money DOWN! Whoops, sorry. I didn't know anyone was listening in. Well, this is kind of embarrassing. Actually, I was just giving a small piece of advice to Marvin (my personal robot assistant) with regard to what is acceptable and unacceptable when one is contemplating organizing a major religion. Not that I know all that much about it, but I think I know more than Marvin does, and I think that gives me "tell you something right now" rights and privileges. Especially with a bloody robot. (Don't tell him I said that - he'll start sulking again.) Um, yes, you heard me right. Marvin's other money making schemes have all been huge disasters. So he's decided to take the Pat Robertson route and start a back-porch religion operation. Of course, being a deductive thinker (and not terribly inventive for

As happens every few decades, the empire is shaking at its foundations, the rot of popular will spreading from Egypt to other corners of America's realm. In fact, nowhere does the grip of tyranny seem firmer than right here at home, where low-income people in the colder latitudes may soon be denied home heating assistance to preserve privileges for the very well-off. (My, what a good idea! ) This offered up by a Democratic president, the ink barely dry on his deal for the extension of Bush's budget busting tax cuts, themselves passed in the same breath as Bush's declaration of the criminally fraudulent Iraq War. Now everyone.... and I mean everyone ... is all about the deficit and how we can compel poor, working class, and retired people to fill the gap left by war and the ravages of wealth. Fundamental economic disenfranchisement is a large part of what lit a fire under the people of Tunisia and Egypt. Remember that Egypt has, in the past few years, undergone a neoliberal