You couldn't make it up dept. no.24: anything I say would be redundant

[fpb]

Chuck Coulson, the Evangelical writer and former politician, swears that the following story is true:

In 1989, the builders of a tea garden in a San Francisco park inadvertently left a parking barrier behind. Four years of complaints yielded zero efforts to remove the eyesore. Then — and I’m not making this up — a group of New Agers began to venerate the barrier as “a manifestation of the Hindi god, Shiva.” Quicker than you can say “wall of separation,” park rangers hastened to remove the now-sacred eyesore. While the barrier’s worshippers eventually got to keep the object of their veneration, officials insisted that their worship be in private.

Well, there's a way to get a bureaucracy moving, anyway.

Comments

[patagonian.livejournal.com]

No. Way. I need documentation, I need an article, I need to print this out and post it in my cube. This is too funny. Parking barrier, huh?

For real, I want to know where you got this so I can send it to all my friends.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Way. It is in Coulson's column today, which you can Google for - or go to www.townhall.com, where I get many of my more conservative reads.

[patagonian.livejournal.com]

Townhall.com? I subscribed to their email newsletter for awhile because I felt I needed conservative viewpoints to balance out my liberal newsletters, but dude, Ann Coulter is a major feature! I just couldn't do it, so I unsubscribed. (She scares me) But I'll look around for that article. Thanks.

[dreamer-marie.livejournal.com]

Well, there's a way to get a bureaucracy moving, anyway.
What should I start venerating to get my month of January paid?

[bufo-viridis.livejournal.com]

I should start burning incence to the ice in my street. I would do it - if I was not painfullly aware the effort is futile, because nobody will give a damn.
In the other news, one journalist called the Ministry of Agriculture lately, presented himself as an assistant to Father Rydzyk, a chief of violently catholic and xeno-nashionalistic radio station, with which our current gov't has very good relations and asked for a car, 'cause his other one got broken. He got the gov't limousine whisked to his place in a couple of minutes, hand-picked by the Minister of Agriculture himself :)

[goreism.livejournal.com]

What's a "Hindi god"?

[fpb.livejournal.com]

A god who speaks Hindi? Yeah, I noticed that one as well.

[evil-whimsey.livejournal.com]

I wonder if this approach could help fix those massive car-eating pot holes out on highway 101?

Note to self: assemble inanimate-object-worshipping kit for next trip to SF.