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Daily Archives: September 16th, 2010

An American Hero Dude

It’s folks like this who make you think there might still be hope: Jacob Isom—the rattail-coiffed hero who swiped a Koran from right-wing fanatics and ran—has a dream. “I want to be inHigh Times,” he told me by telephone. Then he showed me a t-shirt screenprinted with his face. After swiping Christian demagogue David Grisham’s […]

The Pope visits England

Ooh, that must hurt. Benedict failed to sell out in Glasgow. Apparently, the Brits, who are, if anything worse than us politically, are far more enlightened when it comes to religion. Of course it doesn’t help when this sort of thing happens: The start of the trip risked being overshadowed by remarks by one of […]