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Salon Life: “Recently someone forwarded me an invitation to a cheeky Inauguration Day event called ‘Shave the Date.’ As organizer Kristen Chase explains on her Web site, ‘Show your love for your country, and as you watch our new president take his oath and feel your satin undies against your smooth nether region, you can take pride in knowing you’ve rid your world of bush once and for all.’

Now, you’ll be hard-pressed to find anyone more eager than me to offer Junior a hearty farewell to wherever ex-president frat boys go. And the event is, indeed, a lovely act of unity. But I won’t be participating in this brilliant call to action. See, it ignores one thing: W. may be leaving the White House, but when it comes to our most private places, bush is back.”

(Via Salon.)

Coconut Grove witch runs shop, leads coven

Central Miami - MiamiHerald.com: “Once a novice working psychic hot lines in Kendall, Richardson these days has a long list of faithful clients. Among them is Hilda Collins, a Spanish language instructor.

”Every time she reads my cards, she hits it on the nose,” Collins said. “She just radiates harmony. Whatever is troubling you, she makes it go away.”

As a little girl attending Baptist services in Chatsworth, Ga., Richardson said she was fascinated by the occult, bedazzled by TV sitcoms I Dream of Jeannie and Bewitched.

”Something inside my heart and soul screamed for something more,” Richardson said.

She moved to Miami in 1976 and got an accounting/business degree from Miami Dade College. But it wasn’t until 1989, while on vacation in California, that she found what she was searching for. It came in the form of a book titled The Truth about Witchcraft, which she bought for $4.95.”

(Via Miami Herald.)

Paganism not a cult

News - General: Paganism not a cult, say Donna Vos: “One of the most prominent pagans in South Africa, she holds a biblical diploma from the Bible Institute in Kalk Bay and a masters in theology from Unisa. Her qualifications and her focus on HIV and Aids, the problem of Satanism among the youth and drugs and sex among young people got her the job.

But Vos said soon she was being ‘persecuted’ for her beliefs. ‘I was pariah of the state, they were calling me a Satanist.’

She said a colonel, even after reading her book Dancing under the African Sun, labelled paganism a ‘cult’ and told Vos they couldn’t ‘unleash you on 8 000 men’.

‘It was so shocking that even after reading my book which explains that paganism is nature-based and describes our beliefs, he still had this attitude.’”

(Via IOL.)

Seeking unemployed witches in Sweden

Seeking unemployed witches in Sweden | IceNews - Daily News: “During the current economic downturn, finally some positive employment news is coming out of Sweden: Haxriket i Norden, a company based in Ahus, is looking to hire 20 witches to staff its phones and internet website. The company specialises in fortunes, predictions and other advice at a price of just USD 2.45 per minute.

The Local newspaper reports that qualified candidates for the position must be experienced in ‘contact with the other side, runes, tarots, crystals, herbs, rituals, exorcism, meditation, personal coaching, and more.’ Interested witches must also have a fixed telephone line and Internet connection, but can enjoy the advantages of working from home.

Haxriket’s massive hiring wave is the result of an internal shakeup in the company in which several formerly-employed witches had to be terminated for violating telemarketing ethics that were put into place in 1994 by Sweden’s Trade Ethical Council for Telemarketing. What they did was not mentioned.”

(Via IceNews.is.)