Steve S. posted an article on Steve Likes to Curse - Nov 4, 2009, 4:18 pm
Music Review A Family Album by The Verve Pipe   Back in the days when I was in the grip of adolescent angst (a period which strangely coincided with my actual adolescence) there was no better ban...
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Steve S. posted an article on Steve Likes to Curse - Nov 3, 2009, 2:26 pm
I’m not giving up on the Phillies yet. I’m not. But they’re down in the series three games to two and headed back to the Bronx, and . . . well, I just think we need to be r...
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Steve S. posted an article on Steve Likes to Curse - Nov 2, 2009, 2:42 pm

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Steve S. posted an article on Steve Likes to Curse - Nov 1, 2009, 11:50 am

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Steve S. posted an article on Steve Likes to Curse - Oct 31, 2009, 10:50 pm
—Bottom of the sixth, Yankees up 6-3. Not looking good for the Phillies.   —I think when Derek Jeter is inevitably elected to the Hall of Fame, his plaque should simply read &ldq...
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Steve S. posted an article on Steve Likes to Curse - Oct 30, 2009, 4:02 pm
Last night was the government-sanctioned, real official-like trick-or-treat night here in Sharpsburg. There was a good turnout as usual, and the kids seemed to have a good time, the shameless little b...
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Steve S. posted an article on Steve Likes to Curse - Oct 29, 2009, 4:59 pm
Driving around yesterday I saw two things typical of this area this time of year: white-tailed deer, and people trying to kill them. The deer I saw were in no immediate danger from hunters, since...
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Steve S. posted an article on Steve Likes to Curse - Oct 28, 2009, 5:28 pm
Tonight is the first game of the 105th World Series. The New York Yankees host the Philadelphia Phillies. It’s only the second time these two franchises have ever faced each other in t...
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Steve S. posted an article on Steve Likes to Curse - Oct 27, 2009, 4:58 pm
There’s a documentary just out on DVD that I’m anxious to see. It’s Collision, a film about the debate tour conducted last year by Douglas Wilson, a Christian pastor, author, an...
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Steve S. posted an article on Steve Likes to Curse - Oct 26, 2009, 5:20 pm
For the last week or so Ashley has been dropping cryptic hints about a “project” she’d been working on for me. Yesterday she finally finished it and revealed it to me. And man, ...
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Steve S. posted an article on Steve Likes to Curse - Oct 25, 2009, 12:19 pm
Hey, remember that joke I told last night? Well, whatever.   After I typed it in and posted it, I got to thinking . . . it could very easily have been a joke about George Washington, not jus...
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Steve S. posted an article on Steve Likes to Curse - Oct 24, 2009, 11:02 pm
You would not believe how hard it is to find a good George Washington joke these days. I bet back ‘round the 1790s you would have found tons of them, just pamphlet after pamphlet of incredi...
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Steve S. posted an article on Steve Likes to Curse - Oct 23, 2009, 4:14 pm
As you may have noticed, and as the past six straight days of shitty comics has demonstrated, I haven’t felt much like writing this week. I’m not sure why exactly, but I have a theory. It ...
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Steve S. posted an article on Steve Likes to Curse - Oct 22, 2009, 6:56 pm

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Steve S. posted an article on Steve Likes to Curse - Oct 21, 2009, 5:19 pm

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Steve S. posted an article on Steve Likes to Curse - Oct 20, 2009, 3:22 pm

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Steve S. posted an article on Steve Likes to Curse - Oct 19, 2009, 3:04 pm
 
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Steve S. posted an article on Steve Likes to Curse - Oct 18, 2009, 12:02 pm
 
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Steve S. posted an article on Steve Likes to Curse - Oct 17, 2009, 10:26 pm
Liberals are impatient over the continued operation of the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, and the failure to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; conservatives are losing their shit over the prop...
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Steve S. posted an article on Steve Likes to Curse - Oct 12, 2009, 4:37 pm
Saturday night President Barack Obama addressed the annual National Dinner of the Human Rights Campaign, one of the largest and most visible gay rights organizations in the world. In a speech int...
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Steve S. posted an article on Steve Likes to Curse - Oct 11, 2009, 11:59 am
My deep, dark secrets . . . the parts of myself that must remain hidden at all costs . . . Here are a few of them, shockingly revealed by random screengrabs taken from my web surfing over the last f...
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Steve S. posted an article on Steve Likes to Curse - Oct 10, 2009, 10:38 pm
One of the hallmarks of a big-time pro wrestling match, like Wrestlemania main event big time, is the staredown of the opponents. The two guys walk to the middle of the ring, stand toe-to-toe, and usu...
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Steve S. posted an article on Steve Likes to Curse - Oct 9, 2009, 2:03 pm
As I’m sure you’ve heard by now, the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 has been awarded to our very own President of the United States, Barack Obama. It was a surprise to pretty much everyon...
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Steve S. posted an article on Steve Likes to Curse - Oct 8, 2009, 10:30 am
A few months ago I told you all about my failed career in advertising. I designed a few posters to raise awareness of multiple sclerosis, which were rejected by my design professor and resulted in my ...
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Steve S. posted an article on Steve Likes to Curse - Oct 7, 2009, 4:17 pm
... Jennings has been a lifelong advocate for the rights of gays, and has especially focused on how homosexuality is treated in education. After growing up surrounded by racial and sexual ... ...
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Steve S. posted an article on Steve Likes to Curse - Oct 6, 2009, 2:29 pm
These past few weeks it’s finally seemed to dawn on a few conservatives other than David Frum that maybe they ought to start standing up to the large-mouthed extremists on their own side before ...
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Steve S. posted an article on Steve Likes to Curse - Oct 5, 2009, 5:04 pm

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Steve S. posted an article on Steve Likes to Curse - Oct 4, 2009, 3:42 pm
. . . And if that title is not enough to whet your appetite, goddammit, I do not know what is. So Varjak, that smartass, comments on my post from yesterday asking how come Glenn Beck is left of cent...
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Steve S. posted an article on Steve Likes to Curse - Oct 3, 2009, 10:57 pm
 
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Steve S. posted an article on Steve Likes to Curse - Oct 1, 2009, 1:44 pm
You know me, I dig Christopher Hitchens. He is one of the few humans on the planet whom I honestly and sincerely believe ought to be exempt from all criminal or civil sanctions, no matter what th...
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Steve S. posted an article on Steve Likes to Curse - Sep 30, 2009, 6:01 pm
Film Review Superman/Batman: Public Enemies   Lemme tell ya, I am a total sucker for a good World’s Finest story. Give me Superman and Batman on the same page — or the same scree...
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Steve S. posted an article on Steve Likes to Curse - Sep 29, 2009, 5:52 pm
So I was behind a guy in traffic today, and I noticed he had a bumper sticker on the back of his vehicle that read “I LOVE AMERICA” in elegant script, all trimmed out in red, white, and bl...
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Steve S. posted an article on Steve Likes to Curse - Sep 28, 2009, 2:16 pm
 
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Steve S. posted an article on Steve Likes to Curse - Sep 27, 2009, 1:45 pm
Comic Book Review Justice Vols. 1-3 Writers: Alex Ross (Story), Jim Krueger (Story and Script) Artists: Alex Ross (Painter), Doug Braithwaite (Penciller)   Look, I’m not made of stone, all ...
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Steve S. posted an article on Steve Likes to Curse - Sep 26, 2009, 10:47 pm
Just so y’all know, I’ve changed my username here at LiveJournal from “nightwingwilson” to “stevelikescurse” (I know . . . they have a 15-character limit). Vis...
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Steve S. posted an article on Steve Likes to Curse - Sep 25, 2009, 3:30 pm
For way too many years, I’ve been a voyeur peeking through the window at born-again Christianity, simultaneously repulsed and fascinated by what I see. Mostly that window has been the Trinity Br...
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Steve S. posted an article on Steve Likes to Curse - Sep 25, 2009, 3:30 pm
For way too many years, I’ve been a voyeur peeking through the window at born-again Christianity, simultaneously repulsed and fascinated by what I see. Mostly that window has been the Trinity Br...
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Steve S. posted an article on Steve Likes to Curse - Sep 24, 2009, 5:10 pm
Earlier this month, in a lengthy article about Glenn Beck’s 9/12 Project, I mentioned that Beck based his “9 Principles” on the supposed 28 founding principles of the United States a...
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Steve S. posted an article on Steve Likes to Curse - Sep 24, 2009, 5:10 pm
Earlier this month, in a lengthy article about Glenn Beck’s 9/12 Project, I mentioned that Beck based his “9 Principles” on the supposed 28 founding principles of the United States a...
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Steve S. posted an article on Steve Likes to Curse - Sep 23, 2009, 1:43 pm

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Steve S. posted an article on Steve Likes to Curse - Sep 22, 2009, 6:09 pm
Yesterday I mentioned that maniacal right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones doesn’t like Glenn Beck. When the goddamn 9/11 Truthers are complaining that you’re sabotaging their cred...
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Steve S. posted an article on Steve Likes to Curse - Sep 21, 2009, 4:21 pm
Driving around town today, I noticed someone had put up posters advertising Infowars.com, the flagship site of Alex Jones, America’s Grand Poobah of Paranoia. One poster had a black-and-whi...
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Steve S. posted an article on Steve Likes to Curse - Sep 20, 2009, 9:17 pm
This was encouraging. Ashley and I stopped by our local Borders today. As we wandered around after looking for Faerie Tale Theater on DVD (which we found, outrageously priced at $99, which i...
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Steve S. posted an article on Steve Likes to Curse - Sep 19, 2009, 10:58 pm
Today was the annual Sharpsburg Heritage Festival (also known as Sharpsburg Cashes In). They have it around here every year on the nearest weekend to the anniversary of the Battle of Antietam, wh...
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Steve S. posted an article on Steve Likes to Curse - Sep 18, 2009, 1:41 pm
Let us bow our heads one final time — not in prayer, since you know that is not what I am about, but in respect, to again mark the passing of a giant, a man whose like we shall never see again. ...
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Steve S. posted an article on Steve Likes to Curse - Sep 17, 2009, 2:22 pm
You may have heard me toss around phrases like best Onion story ever now and again, but this time I really mean it. Maybe. I dunno . . . Check this one out:   Derek Jeter Honored For Having Few...
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Steve S. posted an article on Steve Likes to Curse - Sep 16, 2009, 2:43 pm
You find it everywhere. Sometimes it’s a movie, sometimes it’s a TV show. It can be a comic book, a trashy novel, a painting, or even a song. But sometimes — if you ar...
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Steve S. posted an article on Steve Likes to Curse - Sep 15, 2009, 12:48 pm
Christopher Beam has a great on-the-ground report about the Glenn Beck-inspired 9/12 rally in D.C. up at Slate.com. Unfortunately it seems as though my assessment of the event was correct. I...
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Steve S. posted an article on Steve Likes to Curse - Sep 14, 2009, 2:49 pm
Let me make this clear up front: Joe Wilson, U.S. Representative of South Carolina’s 2nd District, is an asshole. He’s been an asshole for a long time. I’d be willing ...
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