Hi.  Welcome to what was my first blog on HuffPost.

Me?  I started as a journalist, morphed into a stand up comedian who focussed with a right-wing POV, and then – when my politics changed in 2005 – took a long (and currently continuing) break from comedy.  (There’s a bio in here for all the specifics if you really care).

Which brings me to the first topic:  When we blog about something four seconds after it happens, we have to admit when we’re wrong, if we find out we are.

And for me, that means Bill Sparkman.

First, this happened right after lunatic Minnesota Cock-A-Doodle-Doofus Michelle Bachmann teed off on census workers.  One was found dead at the corner of “Deliverance” and “Squeal like a piggie” with the word “FED” scrawled on his chest, and everybody assumed it was an anti-government attack… including me.

So, does this a-hole from Minnesota get to continue walking around like she’s not complicit in the death of this census worker?  Or do we finally start holding people accountable for their words and actions?

I’m sure she’ll wake up tomorrow, surrounded by thread count and people telling her what she wants to hear.  I’m sure tomorrow, she’ll blather on about something with zero insight, and no concern for consequence.

And Bill Sparkman will be dead.

Congratulations, Michelle Bachmann, lunatic from Minnesota.  You’ve made a difference.

Woo!  Look at me!  Right on top of it!

Then, today’s story.

(ChattahBox)—Nearly two-months after the naked body of census worker, Bill Sparkman, 51, was found hanging from a tree in a remote forest in Kentucky with the word “fed,” scrawled on his chest, authorities are no closer to solving the case. And they still are investigating Sparkman’s death, as a suicide despite the fact that his hands were bound and he was hanging from a tree.

Authorities investigating Sparkman’s death told the Associated Press that they are becoming increasingly doubtful that the census worker’s death was the result of anti-government sentiment. And they may be settling on a conclusion of suicide.

As evidence that Sparkman’s death may have been due to suicide, authorities point to the fact that his hands were loosely bound, still affording the census worker some mobility to manipulate the rope tied to a tree. Authorities say Sparkman died of asphyxiation where his body was found.

Investigators also point to the absence of defensive wounds on Sparkman’s body.

Woo!  Look at me!  Probably way off.

Read the rest:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-marmel/first-huffpo-blog-when-wr_b_349425.html