Talk radio

I heard THE most ridiculous thing I have ever heard before (hmm, ok, I am prone to exaggeration - at least, in the last few weeks) on a radio show the other day. I'm sure everyone has one of these stories - so welcome to mine.

Some guy was interviewing this Coo-Coo who was a part of some "Private Citizens Brigade"out of somewhere in the Midwest. I'm not sure if y'all would claim him, but nevertheless...

So he says he's "Master Sergeant" so-and-so and he and his band of brothers will be going out to malls, restaurants, churches and the like and handing out flyers and talking to people about Easter and how Christians should stop talking about Easter as the holiday about some zombie who comes back only to frighten small children.

That's right, you read correctly. This fuckin' nutjob actually says that Christians need to stop talking about "some guy who was murdered, body shredded, holes in his hands who comes back from the dead after a couple of days". That images like that will only make little kids scared. And that they will think about movies like "Dawn of the Dead" and "Night of the Living Dead". "Because Easter should be about the Easter Bunny" who comes to visit children leaving them candy and eggs and presents.

According to Master Sergeant Albert Einstein - talk like that will do nothing but scare off little kids. And that it's his right as an American to be able to raise his children as non-Christians and to go around asking Christians to stop talking about Jesus and his death and it's relation to the Easter holiday.

I'm really not even doing this man justice.

Anyway, a few peeps called in and of course, he wouldn't budge. Even the Talk Show Host was starting to get a little frustrated. And I'm sure he's heard FAR worse. I would think.

Master Sergeant Chode Chump was getting nuttier and nuttier by the minute. And yet I kept listening. It was as if I was under some sort of white trash hypnosis.

Anyway, so the point to this whole story, dear readers... (and esp you folks in the Midwest), be careful of what you talk about in restaurants or malls this week. Especially if you're going to be talking about Jesus as "that man with his back all torn to shred and holes in his hands coming back from the dead" cause you might be verbally attacked by... DUN DUN DUUUUUUUN... The Private Citizens Brigade!

Oh brother.