I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it. - Garrison Keillor

Napoleon said, “The main use of religion is to keep the common people from murdering the rich.

The Union is what needs defending this year. Government of Enron and by Halliburton and for the Southern Baptists is not the same as what Lincoln spoke of. This gang of Republicans has humbugged us to death on terrorism and tax cuts for the comfy and school prayer and flag burning and claimed the right to know what books we read and to dump their sewage upstream from the rest of us and clear-cut the forests and gut the IRS and promote the corporate takeover of the public airwaves and to hell with anybody who opposes them.

Good old Norwegian cooking: you don't read much about that, or about good old Norwegian hospitality.