My Kossack Friends,
The Friday News Dump has been renamed How Did I Miss That? Still seeking a regular readership.
This is the most fun I've had writing in a long time, so I'm not above begging for clicks, but I really hope the tidbits I find are of some use to people.
If anyone has suggestions about what to call it or how to get the word around, I'm all ears. The object is to produce a weekly humor column of the kind my hero, Will Rogers, used to produce daily. This is the third, and I realize I'm proving that I'm not Will Rogers, but I still think there's a niche to be filled. And, yes, of course I would like to syndicate, but I have to make it fly where it is first.
Last Friday, Andrew Hamblin, pastor of the Tabernacle Church of God in LaFollette, Tennessee, and star of the National Geographic channel reality show Snake Salvation, was arraigned on charges of unlawful possession of venomous snakes. The misdemeanor charges resulted from a raid on his church that yielded some 50 snakes, including cottonmouths, copperheads and rattlesnakes. Hamblin promised to make his trial “a fight for freedom of religion.” Cousin Ray Sixkiller observed that if the state wanted to wipe out religious snake handlers, the most efficient way might be to just let them keep doing what they are doing.
A controversy boiled over this week involving Melissa Bachman, star of Winchester Deadly Passion, who posted a picture of herself smiling broadly over the body of a magnificent male lion she had just killed in South Africa. While the kill was legal, lions are expected to go extinct in the wild within 10 years from a combination of using lion bones for traditional medicine in Asia, poisoning by farmers, and trophy hunting. The killing of the dominant male in a pride, as Bachman was preening over, sets off the killing of the dominant male’s offspring by other males. Cousin Ray and I are disqualified from having opinions by Cherokee traditions against trophy hunting, but I did hear Ray mumble something about paying to see the lions stalk Bachman.
Completing a trilogy of reality TV news, a second Congressional election in the Old Confederacy has gone against the Tea Party....
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