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• Please Support Under The LobsterScope…

  

  …and I will give you a free gift if you make a donation of $5.00 or more… …you get “Bill’s Box Specials”, a picture font I haven’t offered in this promotion... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2012 SOCIETY

• I’m Sorry to Report That Sherman Helmsley Has Died at Age 74.

  

  He was best known as George Jefferson, a character that he first played in All in the Family and later on The Jeffersons, a role that earned him a Golden Globe... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2012 ENTERTAINMENT

• A Message Received from Michael Moore:

  

  I don’t know if you are on Michael Moore’s mailing list. If not, I’d like to pass on a couple of things I received from Michael this morning re: the Aurora... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2012 SOCIETY

• Art Collector Herb Vogel Has Died…

  

  If you were an artist living in New York in the latter part of the twentieth century and early years of the twenty first, you knew the names Herbert and... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2012 CULTURE, SOCIETY

• Wow! Finally, a Positive Message…

  …and it comes from Barack Obama! His just released ad breaks away from all the negative drones from both sides that have been clogging up our televisions.I say... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2012 SOCIETY

• Would Sally Ride Have Eaten at Chick-fil-A?

  

  The revelation at her death that Sally Ride, an American Hero, was also a Lesbian who had a 27 year relationship with a female partner, brings me back to the... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2012 LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX, SOCIETY

• Sally Ride, First Woman Astronaut, Dies at Age 61…

  

  Sally Kristen Ride, American physicist and a former NASA astronaut died yesterday from pancreatic cancer. Ride joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2012 ASTRONOMY, SCIENCE, SOCIETY

• The Bitter End Of Howard “Buck” McKeon (R-CA)

  Click on this one:The Bitter End Of Howard “Buck” McKeon (R-CA).I’m passing this on to you. I’m tired of all the corrupt politicians that run our lives and... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2012 SOCIETY

• Attend a National Demonstration Against Fracking in Washington, D.C. —...

  

  I am passing this on to all my readers in the Washington DC area and around here in Shepherdstown and Harper’s Ferry who don’t mind a 90 minute drive. Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2012 SOCIETY

• How Romney and Bain Made a Fortune by Taking Away Jobs… and Making the People...

  This is pathetic, but it is why we can’t trust one word Romney says about creating jobs, or the way businesses are going to create jobs.Take a look:DONATE:... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2012 SOCIETY

• Republicans, As Usual, Block Bill to Bring Jobs Home

  

  The best piece I’ve read on this subject is over at PoliticusUSA… and while anything I’d write on the Republicans and their ongoing program to outsource jobs... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2012 SOCIETY

• The Sadness of a Runaway Dog… And His Recovery.

  

  Three evenings ago our smaller dog, Byron, pushed his way out of the front door as he regularly tries (and sometimes succeeds) to do. Usually he returns in abou... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• The Sadness of a Runaway Dog…

  

  Three evenings ago our smaller dog, Byron, pushed his way out of the front door as he regularly tries (and sometimes succeeds) to do. Usually he returns in abou... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• AFA News Director Says Liberal Churches, Media Share Responsibility for...

  

  From Right Wing Watch: Fred Jackson, American Family Association Fred Jackson, the American Family Association’s news director, while discussing the Colorado... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2012 SOCIETY

• Quote of the Week – What is Wrong with Us When We Respond to a Tragedy Like...

  

  For all the dysfunction in our political system, a healthy pattern usually takes hold when a terrible tragedy seizes the nation’s attention. Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2012 SOCIETY

• Cartoon(s) of the Week – Romney’s Tea Party Support Baffles Me…

  

  David Horsey at the L.A. Times:Does the Tea Party have any idea what government is for?- and -Mike Peters in the Dayton Daily News:Will they ever realize that... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2012 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Leftist Columnist Alexander Cockburn Dead at 71.

  

  Alexander Cockburn, radical columnist for The Nation and editor of the political newsletter CounterPunch, died Friday in Germany at age 71. Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2012 SOCIETY

• Why I Will Never Eat at Chick-fil-A…

  

  Because of it’s management’s consistent push of fundamentalist Christianity upon it’s customers, whether they are Jews, or Buddhists, or Muslims, or atheists... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• I Was Looking at My Editorial Cartoon Set from Last January 15th…

  

  Take a look here:http://underthelobsterscope.wordpress.com/2011/01/15/cartoons-of-the-week-shouldnt-congress-fight-the-nra-instead-of-the-president/A sample:... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2012 SOCIETY

• NRA Website Has Nothing on the Thursday Night Movie Theatre Shooting…

  

  I thought I’d skip over to the News page at the NRA’s website and watch their news report from yesterday, July 20. I was sure they would at least put forward a... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2012 SOCIETY