Good Morning Comrades

The Duncan Flood
I've talked before about how I used to work as a patrol guard in Duncan. So it was with special interest that I watched the news about the flooding in town there. I'm dating myself, as if I have a choice anymore, but it was thirty years ago virtually to the day that the Cowicha

Brucie's Jukebox Party! Selection D2
You realize of course that I'm limited to playing what's on the jukebox, so we have to take the good with the bad. I seem to have some barely recovered memory of being with my ex brother in law in Calgary in his 1974 Cadillac with the cruise control that only ever accelerated, and we stopped in at some truck stop where he bought an 8-track tape of Hank Snow's greatest hits. He was so pleased with his $1 purchase and the chance to share it with me on the 350-mile drive to Revelstoke. I'm thinking, some messed up pervert could drive me home, an inbred hillbilly could drive me down a country road and put a gun to my head and actually pull the trigger after he had his wa

This One's For Bob
After reading Bob's comments in a previous post about pope Benny and his merry little band of homo-hating henchmen, I will never be able to write about them again without thinking of this song. So many memories from so long ago... blown to smithereens. Benny & the Jets - Elton John

Brucie's Jukebox Party! Selection D12
No, I haven't forgotten about the jukebox party. I dunno, this dude sounds like trouble, so despondent and upset that he's resorted to smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee like some wild thing with nothing left to lose. Probably best to stay away from him or you might find yourself in a game of euchre after a trip to the bingo hall. Cigarettes and Coffee Blues - Marty Bobbins

Catholics Confirm What the Rest of Us Already Know
As part of an ongoing effort to get to the root of the problem of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church, Bishops in the US commissioned a study to determine if there was any link to homosexuality, guess what they found: A preliminary report commissioned by the nation's Roman Catholic bishops to investigate the clergy sex abuse scandal has found no evidence that gay priests are more likely than heterosexual clergy to molest children, the lead authors of the study said Tuesday. The full report by researchers at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice won't be