Bill Hicks

Members of the Mount Vernon City Council voted Tuesday to study and revise their proposed tree preservation ordinance after twelve local residents spoke against the proposed ordinance during a lengthy public hearing on the matter that packed the city hall chambers with a standing-room only crowd. Read More

Your friend has suggested you might be interested in this blog post: Imagine a positive news story about LSD Tuesday, November 17, 2009 "How about a positive LSD story, that would be newsworthy. Don't you think? Anybody think that? Just once, to hear a positive LSD story. "Today, a young man on acid, realised that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. That we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves… here's Tom with the weather." ~ Bill Hicks (1961 - 1994) Even though I am a reformed Catholic, one who quit the habit more than twenty years ago, I still have these spasms of ludicrous and fatalistic fear, analogous to Sharon Stone saying the deaths of thousands in China after an earthquake was a karmic response to the Chinese government's policy on Tibet (only Ms Stone's sense of karma seemed to be fearless). I look at Bill Hicks, a truly subversive comedian with enormous talent, a comic who championed drug-taking of many forms and styles, and I consider the fact that he died of cancer age 32, and even though my entire rational faculty storms against the logic of this view, a small part of me can't shake that innate old-school fear that God got Bill good and well before his time for what he done said on the stage. It really is annoying to be prey to your childhood traumas at such a late age. Read More

Local community clinics are reacting to Saturday's historic health reform vote in the House. Read More

I've gone on a serious reading binge on this Bill Hicks break . Read More

I WANT to give a big shout out this week to the Scottish comedian Frankie Boyle. Read More

A PIECE in your review section (Irish Independent, October 31) really brought home to me how out of touch we are as a nation. Read More

Only a few more posts remain for this site, for quite some time. Read More

The concept is fairly simple; a family embark on a project to lower their environmental impact by eating local, walking or cycling, not buying stuff, not producing trash and so on for a year. Read More

Lee University announced the recipients of the 2009-2010 Hicks Scholarships in a chapel service on Sept. 17. Read More

Sarah Silverman's fine joke about her Nana's tattoo rather bursts the absurd myth that you can't make jokes about such atrocities as the Holocaust. Read More