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Patrick Sky. Sky's most recent album Songs that Made America Famous ("I tried to put something on it that would offend everyone") is essentially a long dead-baby joke. The remarkable thing is that he plays excellent guitar and banjo, and when he's not too drunk to be coherent, sings well enough too. Through Sunday, April 21 at the Stone Phoenix Coffee House...
Steven Simon, managing editor of the Observation Post, Saturday denied that the newspaper had intended to offend any religious group. "I took the cartoon as a sexual satire, but if we managed to demean an entire belief, it's not by intent," he said...
After a while, a group started an anti-Charlie Christmas movement in the Morning Watch council. The outcome of it all was that Charlie could talk about Jesus only as a teacher. No more of this talking about him as the Lord. We don't want to offend "our Jewish students." That really ticked old Charlie off. He even stopped trying to convert me after that--I guess he figured all I had coming to me was hell fire and damnation...
...order to discourage "excess use" of natural gas by homeowners. The tax might apply to all purchases above 90% of last year's usage. While such a measure would surely help to conserve the fuel, Congress has shown no enthusiasm for it. The lawmakers are not anxious to offend all those homeowners. Moreover, the tax would not get at the basic problem: pricing policy...
...sure that the late President Truman's utterances on various national figures more than a decade ago will offend many readers of the forthcoming book, Plain Speaking...