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Fred Phelps has created his own hell, and through the magic of the internet, forced the rest of us to visit it.

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Jesus. And I thought keeping track of quantum mechanics was hard.

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Duck and cover

yeah, I don't miss that at all...

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So Obama is "Pollyanna, John Wayne and Henry Kissinger all at once."

Hitler. You forgot Hitler also, too.

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and Stalin and Mao and the Antichrist and...

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Surprisingly Friedman didn't seem to be as horrible as I expected. Although, that sensation may have been a by-product of my braincells dying from reading his previous dreck.

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What's up with the picture of Freddy Mercury in a straight jacket?

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That may not have been what Tommy had in mind when he asked for a "strap on."

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DB:

I thought it was Uncle Joe Stalin.

(I'm not sure Freddy Mercury ever wore a Straight jacket. Just sayin'...)

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I'm at a loss as to when she has been in the general vicinity of "on." Perhaps she is secretly a man, and refuses to ask directions?

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Holy cow...it is Freddy. I thought it was Tom Friedman trying to look cool.

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can you say "pointless feel good measure"?

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The down side is that Murdock has looked 82 and unhealthy for as long as I can remember.

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considering you'd both be reduced to a puddle of goo within nanoseconds of each other, I think it was mostly to placate nervous parents about the lack of fallout shelters in public schools and to give people something to do so they didn't feel so damned helpless. Even in grade school we joked about the pointlessness of the whole exercise- get down under your desk on your hands and knees, put your head between your knees with your hands wrapped around the back of your head- then kiss your ass goodbye because if all those cinder block walls don't stop that blast, that little wooden desk isn't going to do shit...

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Now the tornado drills, OTOH, those were some good times. Oddly, they amounted to basically the same thing, except we actually went to the trouble of going to the interior hall, because unlike a nuke blast there's a realistic chance of surviving a tornado touchdown.

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