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Here’s a Thought: Opening Act
By Taylor Mason
For those of you not familiar with how I roll: I’ve been a comedian for 25-plus years and been an “opening act” for a variety of performers. Some highlights. ...
Here's a Thought: Death by Cancer
By Taylor Mason
My sister-in-law passed away last Thursday, felled by cancer after a seven-year battle. She was a dignified, lovely, inspiring wife and mother who beat the odds over and over again.
Time Out: Safety ‘Net
By Patty Elder
Summer in DC means storms, and storms mean power outages. And power outages bring out my worst fear, and it's NOT the dark. ...
Here’s a Thought: Hot Enough for Ya?
By Taylor Mason
The heat was debilitating this summer, so much so that the word “hot” doesn’t do justice to the grades of temperature we've sweated these past few months.
Time Out: Make Yourself at Home
By Cara Garretson
It’s beach week, and so far so good. We bust into our rented beach house and it looks great – the bathrooms are sparkling, the décor is charming, the kitchen is retro. ...
The Truth Hurts: Ultra-Violet Bar-B-CueJune 30, 2009
By Brad Stine
I come from a different age. Sure things may be “safer” nowadays, but they are definitely less enjoyable. Today’s kids have grown up in an age of paranoia. When I was growing up one of the things that passed for fun was lying out in the sun. We actually used the phrase “I’m gonna go layout.” This was a time where sun products were designed to enhance and enable the suns power, not fear it. This was a time where we wore sun-TAN lotion as opposed to sun-SCREEN lotion. Suntan lotion’s purpose was to demonstrate you actually were IN the sun enjoying nature and Gods gift of warmth and light. Sunscreen is supposed to block the ultra-violet rays so as to give you the warmth of the sun with the added benefit of when finished, you look worse than when you started. Yes we went from brown, tan, healthy look to the pasty-white cadaver/goth look as the new appearance of health. Of course vegetarians have been doing it for years; they espouse the benefits of vegetables only and then try and prove their point by looking like a skeletal ectomorph/prisoner of war, ribcage protruding version of health. If we were still in Eden, vegetables alone would be fine. Heck in Eden we were allowed to walk around naked and God was cool with it! The militant anti-fur vegetarians, like all materialist driven philosophies are glaringly inconsistent. We aren’t supposed to eat animals in their opinion because in their opinion we ARE animals. They tell us we are animals, yet approve of the animal kingdom eating each other. Wait a minute if animals (humans) shouldn’t eat animals (beasts) then animals (beasts) shouldn’t be allowed to eat fellow animals (beasts). Based on the vegetarian philosophy, if consistent, every time lions eat a gazelle they are committing cannibalism. When we join in the feast as the other “animals” do they say we are somehow inhumane. How ironic they use the term (less than human) when describing our beastly act of eating animals. Of course to be less than human presupposes humans moral and mental superiority, which is a concept they don’t agree with. I know it makes no sense but postmodern thought doesn’t believe in “common” sense, only in their agenda driven sense. Which amounts to the world they create in their minds and force upon us. Their hypocrisy reaches new heights when they make fake hamburgers, hot dogs, and other meat tasting food substitutes out of soybeans and tofu so the veggieheads can enjoy a barbecue like the normal people do. They want it to taste like the real thing, which proves what the rest of us already knew…meat tastes good! The real question is if you think eating meat is wrong, why would you invent your own version? How sick and twisted do you have to be in order to eat a version of the food you disdain and find immoral? Can you imagine eating faux human brains or a pretend human thigh or breast, which you justify since it is really made of soy? There is no excuse to eat anything that claims to taste like a food you find offensive. If you are a vegetarian you can eat vegetables and that is it. You chose to refuse meat so don’t be eating pretend meat and believing your conscious is clear. As for me and my house, see you at the barbecue with my shirt off to catch some rays. Now that would be a treat to enhance anyone’s 4th of July! Dubbed "God's comic" by The New Yorker magazine, comedian Brad Stine brings his irreverent, edgy, and politically incorrect message to both mainstream and church audiences across the nation. His fifth DVD, "The Best of Brad Stine," features the best material from his previous releases, "Put A Helmet On!," "Conservative Unleashed," "Tolerate This!" and "Wussification." Read Brad's other recent The Truth Hurts columns:
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finally someone tells it my way
i resently invited a friend to a barbeque where he isisted upon veggy burgers it made me so mad i canceled my little party because its a waste to fire up my grill for fake food i cant stand the artificialness of everything in this world these days my grill is only fired up for the real deal steak, burgers, hotdogs, and other real meat if you want fake food put it on your own grill and keep you and your implanted, injected, and plastic wife with you ill take my real woman and cook beef