Viva La Chocolate City

Wishing I was at Mardi Gras in New Orleans right now. However, I can't complain. Here on the lower east side of Hurricane Alley we're gearing up for Mardi Gras too. No one celebrates like storm survivors!

I've heard some people say there shouldn't be a Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Nonsense. Let her kick up her heels, I say. She deserves to dance. She's had it rough. Let her be defiant. She's not going down that easy, storms and FEMA and uncaring politicians be damned.

If you can, go. Anytime, not just Mardi Gras. Donate to charity, donate with labor, or donate this way...go visit, and spend your money on New Orleans food, booze, beads, and businesses. They will welcome you with open arms and it will be an experience you will never forget for the rest of your life.

More Offensive Cartoons, Please.....

It needs to be said. Chances are it is only being said in small town editorials or obscure blogs like this.

The radical Islamist nutjobs who are pissed off about the Danish cartoons need to GET OVER IT NOW. I realize that sensitivity towards other religions and customs is a good thing and even necessary in order for all of us to get along without killing each other. But this is really out of control and the leaders who tell you it's OK to get all violent over a cartoon (a fucking CARTOON, people!!!!)are really just exploiting your gullibility to act out in violence in order to bully the world into keeping their mouths shut over unpleasant matters your chickenshit leaders would rather not discuss.

These cartoons are not on par with the ugly anti-semitic comments and caricatures prevelant in some Muslim publications or conversations. These cartoons were metaphors to the questions all non-Muslims are asking these days. These cartoons were making a point about what the rest of the world fears most from the Islamic community. The question these cartoonists are trying to raise is; why are the adherants to a supposedly peaceful religion so quick to kill? Does Mohammed, and therefore Islam, advocate the kind of violence our world is seeing perpetrated in his name? That's what we're seeing lately, and regardless of who started it first, can you honestly blame us for asking these questions?

I don't aim to offend Muslims or Christians. But I do want to ask questions many of you won't like, and I want to hear others ask them as well. Why do religious people treat their god like a china doll? Is your god really this small and powerless? Is your god going to topple from his throne because of a cartoon or an uncomfortable question??