http://www.williamkwolfrum.com Bill Wolfrum's world of satire and commentary Sun, 04 May 2008 14:54:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en HELL -- Despite a commitment to "Faith-Based" programs, a new report from St. John's University shows that there are more Americans going to hell than ever before. In a retroactive study, the report shows that new U.S. entries into Hell have shot up more than 2,000 percent over the past ... http://www.williamkwolfrum.com/2008/05/04/report-faith-based-initiatives-sending-americans-straight-to-hell/ Truth and right-wing talking points generally go together like oil and water. Especially when the talking points are actually about oil. Because like most other right-wing talking points, the most common ones simply are not true. Americans are getting gouged by high gas prices. False. From CNNMoney: Relatively low taxes have kept pump prices ... http://www.williamkwolfrum.com/2008/05/04/we-arent-allowed-to-drill-for-oil-and-other-right-wing-lies-about-gas-prices/ Oscar De La Hoya cruised to a unanimous decision over Stevie Forbes in Los Angeles on Saturday night. For De La Hoya, that's the good news. The bad news is this - if he steps in against anyone less limited than Forbes, he could be in big trouble. Showing little more ... http://www.williamkwolfrum.com/2008/05/03/oscar-de-la-hoya-beats-stevie-forbes-and-looks-old-doing-it/ Dear 48-year-old Man, I'm writing to you to say thank you. I know nothing about you. Not where you live, not your name, not anything. But you are my hero and someone I'll always be thankful to. Because you are my Mom's bone marrow donor and because you are saving the ... http://www.williamkwolfrum.com/2008/05/01/thank-you-48-year-old-man/ On Costas Now, H.G. "Buzz" Bissinger, author of the book Friday Night Lights, made it very clear that sports blogs are an obscene atrocity. And did it all while repeatedly swearing. In the segment, Will Leitch of Deadspin does a fine job at making Bissinger - who's really not that old ... http://www.williamkwolfrum.com/2008/05/01/deadspins-will-leitch-stands-tall-to-swearing-old-dude/ This is just pathetic. "McCain blames Minnesota bridge collapse on earmarks" ALLENTOWN, Pa. - Republican John McCain said Wednesday that the bridge collapse in Minnesota that killed 13 people last year would not have happened if Congress had not wasted so much money on pork-barrel spending. Federal investigators cite undersize steel plates as ... http://www.williamkwolfrum.com/2008/04/30/john-mccain-earmarks-caused-the-minnesota-bridge-collapse/ My friends, it is time I admit to a hidden truth. I am 62 percent Muslim. I'm not sure how it happened. Deep in my heart, I believe Islam, Christianity and Judaism are all quite similar to Scientology - as cults. The "Big Three" just has the advantage of having been ... http://www.williamkwolfrum.com/2008/04/30/i-am-62-percent-muslim-therefore-i-am-62-percent-more-likely-to-be-tortured/ From the year 2015, an excerpt from the Wikipedia biography of President John W. McCain: "When McCain won the U.S. Presidency (controversially winning nine states by one vote each), the United States had reached lows it had not seen since the Great Depression era. With the nation at war on four ... http://www.williamkwolfrum.com/2008/04/28/president-john-w-mccain-wikipedia-entry-2015/ Today, I spent some time on a farm in Brazil and even enjoyed some horseback riding. It was truly enjoyable. While a group of us rode our horses, the farmer siddle up by me and made some conversation. I'm not the best conversationalist in Portuguese, but we did ok. "You're from ... http://www.williamkwolfrum.com/2008/04/20/george-w-bush-the-common-language-of-the-globe/ When I recovered from the shock of learning that my Mom had acute myeloid Leukemia, I set to work on learning more about it, and trying to find what part I could play. It was evident early on that my Mom would need a bone marrow transplant to survive more than ... http://www.williamkwolfrum.com/2008/04/16/african-americans-are-dying-for-bone-marrow-donors-a-call-to-action/