The Ellison Bulletin Board

Frank Church, the conversation assassin.

Christ on a minibike, as my old man use to say. I swore off the Pavilion several years ago, but Frank Church's contention that "the Muslim world is quite modern, Lebanon being a good example" compels me briefly to return. Frank, Lebanon is not a good example of Islamic modernity. In fact, ...

>This is not the least evidenced by the fact that you didn't bother to read the responses carefully enough to see that no one necessarily called you a bitch or an asshole< Uh, no, they didn't. That's why I wrote: >the words "bitch" and "asshole" have been used in connection with ...

I have nothing to tone down, as I have used no offensive language, nor insulted any any person or group. But because I suggested that premeditated murder is wrong, no matter whether the person who drops the hammer bears XX or XY chromosomes, the words "bitch" and "asshole" have b...

Obviously "my" account was fictional. In the world we live in it would really happened like this: A man in our town shot his wife at pointblank range with a double barreled shotgun while she slept. The jury acquitted him in less than 15 minutes. Everyone in town knew what a mean bitch she ...

A man in our town shot his wife at pointblank range with a double barreled shotgun while she slept. The jury acquitted him in less than 15 minutes. Everyone in town knew what a mean bitch she was and how much he and his kids had to put up with. She came home drunk, hit him, told him she was going to...

Name: Kenneth Stevens Source: unca20090104.htm Optical prescriptions change over time, and those who view works of art high and low through the lenses of today commit the logical error that David Hackett Fischer calls Presentism. Anyone who has read Fahrenheit 451 or a history of Cambodia's Year Ze...

Name: Kenneth Stevens Source: unca20080731.htm Dear Harlan, Ordinarily I don't post here or anywhere else, but for me your birthday is anything but an ordinary occasion. You see, I hadn't quite reached the age of ten when a hardback of "The Beast That Shouted love at the Heart of the World," with t...