Dirty joke

Check out the OC Weekly's preview of Tuesday's election (Crapshoot).

Scroll to the bottom for a fine photo of our own Nancy Padberg with apparent chum Dana Rohrabacher, who looks as though he's just been told a really great dirty joke. Maybe that's just the way the guy looks. Dunno.

With regard to the Judge race, the Weekly seems to like Sheila Hanson, owing to her qualifications. It isn't overimpressed with Nancy, who is described as a "right-wing community college trustee and GOP activist whose claims to fame include serving as a law clerk in the district attorney’s office about two decades ago."

You know how the Weekly can be.

While you're there, you might wanna check out an article, by one Cornel Bonca, concerning the "Gospel of Judas" (Judas: So Hot Right Now!).

I've been following this fascinating story, which involves a prof (translator) over at Chapman U. In case you haven't heard, this "gospel"

didn’t make the New Testament’s original cut, the way Matthew, Mark, Luke and John did, and when you read it, you have no problem seeing why it’s had a devilish reputation since old Irenaeus of Lyon trashed it as heretical way back in 180 C.E. To be brief..., the Gospel of Judas says that the God you think is God isn’t God, that Jesus did not die for your sins, and that Judas was not the worst guy who ever lived for betraying the best guy who ever lived...In fact, Judas was not The Betrayer at all, but Jesus’ best friend and confidant, who was actually in cahoots with Jesus to have him crucified because His death was the only way to get Jesus back home to heaven and the Great Spirit from whence he came.....

This is a gospel...which was originally written early in the second century of the Common Era, got translated into Coptic in what carbon dating and ink analysis determine was the fourth century, and which then disappeared until 1978, when it was rediscovered in an ancient tomb by the Nile River. Taken up by shady antique dealers eager to make a buck, the codex (archeological talk for manuscript) got buffeted about on several continents in ways no ancient decaying codex should, spending time in papyrus-decaying cold storage for a while and then 16 years in, of all places, a way too hot Citibank safe deposit box in Hicksville, New York, before falling in 2001 into the responsible scholarly hands of Switzerland’s Maecenas Foundation, which contracted National Geographic and several scholars to first restore and then translate the fragile thing into English.

TV viewers: I recommend the National Geographic special, which is often shown on the National Geographic Channel and elsewhere, I think.

Also, while you're at the OC Weekly website, you might check out Matt Coker's blog, which comments upon DtB pretty regularly: Clockwork Orange (e.g., "'Libertarian" not Libertarian on Library").