I remember that commercial! Very funny.

I knew he was a fraud when I heard him use "wampum" as a verb.

Wampum? Damn near killed 'em!

in a spasm of irony, the 'one tear' Indian shown by the side of the road in the Public Service Announcements was an Italian, who made a career for himself playing native americans in westerns.

You could look it up.

BumperStickerist -

I think ACE fully know that tear sprand from a Paisan, which makes his humor even better. Ward Churchill is a gift from God. I have no doubt someone will make huge money with a movie script (hint, ACE!) lampooning this ersatz Indian's phony, big-mouthed Lefty life.

According the CNN, Churchill "won't back down" so it looks like he's planning to go down in flames rather than just do the early easing-into-retirement thing. This should be something to watch.

BTW Ace, the comment box won't let my comments go through when I put my email address in, it says that y*hoo is a forbidden word. Is there any way to get around this or shall I just leave my email out from now on?

Gotta be a way to get Churchill in front of Judge Greer on a motion to remove his feeding tube.

What's this Indian with a tear everyone's talking about? Did I miss something while I was downloading that new video with the Star Wars kid?

CF,

Yes, I know ol' Iron Eyes Cody was not an Indian; I had to rewrite the sentence -- "shed a tear like that Indian in the pollution commercials" -- because I knew a lot of people would say, "Hey! He ain't no Indian! Loose shit!"

I guess it just adds extra, umm, depth to my humor that the "Indian" in question himself wasn't an Indian.

Which kinda makes you wonder... If you're casting for an Indian, why don't you, you know, hire an Indian?

It's not too cool of them to hire a non-Indian.

Just goes to show you the entire environmental movement is evil... and so maybe I should begin supporting it.

Sonetka,

You're kidding me, right? I'm trying it now to see what happens.

Sonetka,

My last posted when I filled in my email line with a yahoo address... maybe it was just a one-time glitch?

Well, it posted again, this time without the URL box filled in. So either it was just a one-time glitch or else it flagged some other word.

Test

OK, now THAT is weird - it's working again. It rejected me three times before, on different threads, but now it's not. The reason I figured it was my email was because it said the word "Y*hoo" (just being careful) wasn't allowed, and that's not exactly a word I use on an everyday basis, and I don't think there was any word-string which looked like it. Weird. Thanks for testing, guys - maybe my computer just decided to get all Net Nanny on me just to get attention.