THE DEATH OF A SUPERMAN

It's A Bird. It's A Plane. It's A Liberal Cultural Icon!

Well, he hung in there till the very last minute, plugging away for stem-cell research and help for victims of spinal-chord injuries, but the actor formerly known as Kal-El of the planet Krypton, Clark Kent of Smallville, and Superman of Metropolis, Christopher Reeve, has died.

Paralysed from the neck down nine years ago by a spinal-chord injury suffered in a fall from his horse while show-jumping, Reeve overcame urges to suicide and came back to fight for a cause. He managed to put a super-human face on an issue the Bushies would rather have demonized, Fundamentalist-style.

Many of us might not have made it as far, and as long as he did, in or out of a wheelchair. But the man who put the mensch in the red yellow and blue suit with the big red "S" turned out to be a real man of steel, fighting for "truth, justice, and the American way," in spite of Bush and his so-called Christian backers. Up, up and away, superdude!


"'Superman' Actor Christopher Reeve Dead at 52"

"Stem cell debate continues in the wake of Reeve's death"

"Reeve Helped Make Stem Cells a Campaign Issue"

"DNA pioneer defends stem cell research"

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AND WHILE WE'RE ON THE SUBJECT...

When Jews Couldn't Get No Respect

The great Rodney Dangerfield, AKA Jack Roy, AKA Jacob Roy, AKA Jacob Cohen, has finally reached his career punchline. The star now known to most as the google-eyed guy in the film "Caddyshack," died last Tuesday in Los Angeles of complications from heart surgery, at age 82. He was so old that he stood as a living monument to a time when Jews had to hide their Jewishness, to make it in showbiz.

Dangerfield changed his name, several times, to make it big on the night-club circut, TV and in the movies. Hard to imagine, in this day of Whoopie Goldberg, Shohreh Aghdashloo and Arnold Schwartzenegger that there was ever anything in a name. But, even in the 1960's, some places wouldn't hire or admit blacks, Hispanics, Jews, Catholics, workers, women, immigrants, or anyone not deemed sufficiently "American." When people, wealthy Conservative white Christian male native-born American type people, talk nostalgically about the Good Old Days, this is what they are talking about.

But then those goddamned LIBERALS came along, and changed all that. And yet, today, they can't get no respect. Wonder why? Maybe it's because the bad old days are coming back again. And that's not funny.

I told my girlfriend I was kinda leaning toward Kerry, and she reported me to Homeland Security!
Now I'm in Guantanamo singing Guantanamera!

I started a blog online against the war in Iraq, and my mother told the draft board where I lived!

Now I'm following a suspicious-looking camel in an unarmoured Hum-Vee!

I put a BUCK FUSH bumpersticker on my car, and three state troopers took turns kicking my ass!
Now I'm somewhere in Utah wired up to a lie-detector! At least I hope it's a lie-detector. They get attached to your genitals, right?

I'll tell ya, folks, I can't get no respect!



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