The religious people who have been tormenting me lately are the wigged-out religious wakkos who elected George W. Bush. The religious people who were tormenting me before that were the wigged-out religious wakkos who elected Ronald Reagan.

                   But even when I was a kid there were always nosey mothers who would happily drag an otherwise entertained child off to church, and when you wanted to watch something on television all you could get was Oral Roberts healing phonies.

                   Then if you want to try to find out what is going on in Congress, and you turn on C-Span, you get some buffoon leading the House in prayer. You might even see your own congressman wallowing around on his knees.

                   But it's worse than that. If you try to listen to "A Prairie Home Companion," you get Garrison Keillor talking about Pastor Inkfest, and that's suppose to make sense to you, and...

                   The list is endless...