How can we force the government to start taxing all religions? I have been
for this idea for years now since they all in someway try to influence their
followers in political ways.
Sandi
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Dear Sandi,
First we just keep talking about it. Then we learn about it: what are the guidelines? What actually constitutes stepping over the line? What organizations are working on this already? Find out and get back to me. I’m waiting for a call from Obama’s transition team for the job of Humor Laureate.
Best,
Kate

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What are your thoughts about Tina Fey as Palin?
Laura
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Dear Laura,
From now on you can bet that there will be a different kind of vetting for political candidates –
“You’ve sure got all the qualifications we are looking for but we can’t take you because you look too much like somebody on Saturday Night Live.”
Thank goodness for Fey qua Palin – “Marriage is for two unwilling teenagers.”
Best,
Kate

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Hi Kate,
The Vatican is putting pressure on Roy Bourgeois, the Maryknoll priest activist who is involved with the Close the School of the Americas Campaign, because he has attended and preached the homily at the most recent roman catholic womens’ ordination. Are you involved in efforts to dismantle/transform church patriarchy or is it a non-starter for you?
Sister Arlene Flaherty
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Dear Sister,
I so happily remember those little Maryknoll books of my youth! They really inspired me to do missionary work. My particular work is within my area of expertise which is comedy. It is not religions I mind, it is their fundamentalisms. So in my work I do try to expose hierarchical hypocrisies. I admire anyone who tries to transform the church from within, but find I do not have the temperament for such work.
Best,
Kate

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Granted there may not be a lot of us who remember, but is it just me or
does Palin remind you of Phyllis Schlafly?
At least she sure gives you a lot of new material to work with! Am
looking forward to being at the Birchmere when you’re there in November,
in the meanwhile stay sane, and thanks for contributing to my sanity.
Viki Robertson
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Dear Viki,
It wasn’t just you – it was you and Gloria Steinem who saw the connection.
Gloria in her great op ed in the LA Times – “Wrong Woman, Wrong Message”
calls Sarah Palin a young Phyllis Schlafly. I don’t know if Phyllis’s
Wikipedia has been scrubbed, but there’s no mention of her gay son.
Hmmmmmmm….
Gloria refers to herself as a “hope-aholic” and even manages to find some
good Hurricane Sarah. I’m following Gloria’s lead and not going insane.
And hip hip hip hooray for my Serena Williams!!
That helped –
Kate

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Love you Kate! After looking at the following link could you please answer the following question…….IF McCain wins this election and then had a fatal heart attack in office……..Will this be what our Veep will be wearing when that 3 am call comes in?
http://www.trendhunter.com/images/phpthumbnails/23808_1_468.jpeg
Yikes! My Best from KY!
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Dear Mark,
Hubba hubba! Like all sensible, former Clinton supporters, I am changing
my party affiliation. John McCain got it so right. There’d be some
heavy breathing on that 3am call.
And you were worried that I wouldn’t have any good material without
George. . .
Best,
Kate

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Hi, Kate:
Do you believe there is support, empirical or otherwise, for the old
cliche that “all the good ones are taken”? If not, where are they and why are
they not “taken?” Does that mean they’re not so good after all, or just can’t
find each other?
Thoughts?
Sharon
St. Louis
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Dear Sharon,
I believe in, “there’s someone for everyone” and “never sit around in a
wet bathing suit,” both nostrums from my Mother. Sarah Palin for John
McCain, etc. And now I better go change my suit.
For one week give up on the whole propes of finding someone – no really do
it – and let me know what happens.
Best,
Kate

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Hi, Kate:
In interpersonal “situations,” which is the higher virtue, truth or mercy?
Again, no pressure, mentor!
Sharon
St. Louis, MO
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Sharon,
In my personal situation room truth has the big comfy chair and mercy is sometimes allowed in to vacuum after a tete a tete. It’s just better that way. I don’t remember much anymore and I have a better chance if I tell the truth.
“Does this make me look fat?” causes Mercy to knock on the door with her broom handle, but that’s when I launch into a truthful, if impersonal, dissertation on stripes.
Next time, be a little more truthful with your “no pressures.”
Best,
Kate

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Which do you think America will see first:? a gay President or a female
President?? (And wouldn’t it be cool if those adjectives weren’t mutually
exclusive in a candidate!)
Char,
I think after what Larry Kramer has been researching about Abe Lincoln that there were areas in Abe’s life in which he was not completely honest. We have all been there. So I think we will see a woman sooner than an openly gay president. I hope she’s a Democrat!!
I’m busy. Sorry.
Best,
Kate
Love your humor.
Char
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Hi, Kate:
Hopes this finds you happily enjoying summer!
If making George W. “belly laugh” would result in his transformation into a
peaceful, sensible, humanitarian compelled to end violence and hunger around
the world, what would you say to him?
No pressure.
Sharon
St. Louis, MO
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Dear Sharon,
It is too a lot of pressure. And what I generally do in pressure situations is dissociate. So I am first imagining that world you described – peaceful, well fed, sensible, humanitarian. I am woozy. After eight years of laughing/crying AT Hellboy, I just don’t think I can make him laugh with me. He has accumulated sick days, I wish he would leave now.
I am working on a Bush pleading for his life before the International War Crimes Tribunal, and will get back to you.
Best,
Kate

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Did you know that the Catholic Church, hereafter referred to as “the
Corporation” has literally proposed amendments to the ten commandments?
(is that an
amazingly audacious proposition or what?) I’m pretty sure the shareholder’s
meeting is in Rome, so I’d like to give you my proxy. Unlike the brethren
who will no doubt be assembled, I trust you to vote our collective
conscience.
Thank you.
Sharon B.
St. Louis, MO
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Is that you, Sister Mary Sharon? It’s been so long. I’d heard you’d left the order. His Extreme SlipperySlopeheadedness,
also uses the executive signing privilege George uses, so no use going to sit with the Bishoprics. The
Widow Ratzinger will do as he will. God speaks through the both of them. So they say. Meantime, I’m doing a novena
for the Yankees.
Can I get an amen?
Sister Kate

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