I collected some interesting postings from around the chattablogosphere after publishing my last short story about deporting Pat Robertson (which, by the way, still awaits readers creative enough to provide an ending to the cliff-hanger that I ended with..).

The Old Grey Lady did a nice pithy follow-up piece (oh for the day in which they would add that tone and substantiative quotations to their other stories!).

The Holtonian inadvertently attempts to place Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez into a broader South American socialist revolutionary context.

Stella Blue elicits comparisons between Robertson and your old loony uncle who won’t stop going on about those Yankees and their oppressions, except Robertson has his own cable tv program (ABC Family, how much do you suck now for agreeing to keep Mr. Rapture on air until the 3rd millennia?).

Finally, the Funky Presbyterian & commentators note that Robertson lacks not only “the boys” but also the truly Christian virtue of self-sacrifice in the face of death. Yeah, a Christian leader that’s neither Christian nor leader. Hopefully we’ll be able to ridicule him in a few decades just the same as that old Empire.

I’m outie.

August 26th, 2005 | Current