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TODAY’S QUOTE
“Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.” — George Carlin
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LOOK OUT, KATY PERRY
Bloomington chanteuse Krista Detor’s star is getting bigger by the day. Not only is she the subject of a breathless profile in the current issue of Bloom magazine, but tix to her shows are almost as hot as Indy Super Bowl ducats.
She wandered into the Book Corner yesterday, looking for last minute gifts. She told this nosy bookseller/correspondent that her holiday show last week at the Bloomington Convention Center was the biggest yet.
Krista’s 6th annual benefit blast, “Once Upon a Time,” packed the center’s Great Room a week ago tomorrow.
Better grab your chance to see her soon before she starts filling up those big arenas around the Midwest — or even the entire nation!
Krista! Krista! Krista!
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SECRETS, SECRETS, AND MORE SECRETS
Many of my leftie pals have been screaming to high heaven about the US government’s alleged propensity these days to engage in undercover hijinks, manipulation of information, and generally act like the USSR-lite.
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The Obama Administration — and the Bush Gang before it — claims it must keep the citizenry safe from all manner of mayhem.
Here’s a development from NPR‘s Nell Greenfieldboyce. The National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity is urging the feds not to release the findings of government-funded research into bird flu mutation to the public. Their rationale — bioterrorists might take the info and create a virulent strain of the virus to unleash on target cities.
Terrorist?
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Usually, federally-funded research is promptly released to scientific journals and even to the mainstream media. The normal follow-up to the time-honored scientific method is to publish findings so other scientists can test and, if needed, poke holes in a new theory. This last step, the Board is saying, is a little too risky in this case.
One aspect of the lab work has been to fiddle with the virus’ genes. Scientists already have developed a strain that is far more contagious than the original.
So, it’s the right to know versus a crippling bio-attack.
Don’t know what my suspicious pals are going to say about this one.
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WHERE WE ARE TODAY
This is America, some 300 years after the Age of Enlightenment began.
A 17-year-old California boy was sentenced this week to 21 years in prison for assassinating in cold blood a high school classmate who was gay.
Judge, Jury, And Executioner
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A young boy in Washington battled a flesh-eating bacterium in 2006. Doctors expected him to die. He didn’t. Relatives had placed a relic of some Mohawk woman at his bedside. Now Pope Benedict XVI says the whole thing was a “miracle” and will declare the woman a saint next year.
Kids: “You Got A Spare Miracle For Us?”
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NFL quarterback Tim Tebow is a flamboyant Christian. He kneels and prays every chance he gets on the football field. His team has won a bunch of games. Some fans argue that the creator of the Universe is interceding on his behalf.
God: “Nah. I’m Busy With This Football Game.”
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A little baby has been missing in Kansas City since October 4. A Dallas psychic has claimed to have had a vision of where the kid is buried. A party of volunteers actually went searching for her in the area where the psychic said she was. The kid, natch, wasn’t there.
The Renowned Crime Investigator
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And, of course, the old standby: 72 percent of Americans believe in angels while only 45 percent believe in the theory of evolution.
Sigh.
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I’M A BELIEVER
Yep, the Monkees.
BTW: For all the rage surrounding Davy Jones back in the ’60s, he sure looks dorky trying to keep time to the beat, doesn’t he? And did you notice he’s a monobrow? And his face is shiny?
Oh, alright, I’m still envious of him.
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Always thought Peter Tork was more approachable, which, when I was in 5th and 6th grade translated as: Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!
Still can’t believe I missed their 45th anniversary tour; they played in Indy!!