Creed

Well, it appears that professor Thomas F. Schaller received his talking points and got right to doing his handlers' work ("A double standard in what we define as 'terrorism,'" Feb. 23). If he had read the misguided "manifesto" left by Joseph Stack, he would have seen for himself that it was full of anger at big business, big religion and big government (only one out of the three is the true purview of the tea party, the other two are clearly the whipping boys of the liberal left). In fact, if Professor Schaller had bothered to read the screed to the end, he would have found out all he needed to know about where this disturbed man's allegiance really lay (and I quote)

On October 13, 2009, Josephine Catherine Creed Funeral from the Gregory J. Gonce Funeral Home, P.A., 169 Riviera Drive, Pasadena on Friday at 8:00 P.M. Interment Private. Family requests friends visit on Friday from 2 to 5 and 7 to 8 P.M.

Coffeehouse -- The 333 Coffeehouse will present Greentree at 8 p.m. Friday at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 333 Dubois Road, Annapolis. The group is made up of (from left) Carey Creed, Grace Griffith, Jody Marshall and Paul Nahay. Admission is $10, and $5 for students and seniors. 443-786-0463, or www.fsgw.org/333.

Has Cornell Dews found an antidote to Baltimore's "Stop Snitching" malady? He thinks he has. And it's in the form of a T-shirt, one that Dews thinks has a message to counter the "Stop Snitching" T-shirts and caps spreading like an annoying rash throughout the land. Dews' T-shirt has a large red octagon on the front. It's meant to look like a stop sign. But in addition to the word "stop," Dews has added something. The white letters on the red octagon read "Stop Lying." The message of the shirt could apply to the congressional and gubernatorial elections going on throughout the country in 2006, but that's not Dews' main concern.

Despite the claims of terrorist organizations, Israel's current two-front war is not just about land. After all, Hezbollah and Hamas fired rockets from Lebanon and Gaza well after Israel had withdrawn from both places. Indeed, if sacred Arab ground were the driving force of the Middle East crisis, then surely Syria itself would now be willing to risk a shooting war over the all-important, Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Meanwhile, Cairo is still perhaps the nexus of virulent Arab anti-Semitism, even though Israel finished handing over Sinai to Egypt in 1982.

On August 24, 2005, PAULINE G. MURPHY, beloved mother of Susan A. Mc Gowan and her husband William and Gregory M. Paradise and his wife Vicky, grandmother of Frederick "Donald" Radtke and his wife Tammy, Melanie, Natalie, Gregory, Katie, Lisa, Creed Sr., great grandmother of Donald, Tabitha, Samantha, Isabella, Dominic, Frankie, Mia, Creed Jr., Mindi, Joe, Warren and Logan; and great-grandmother of Christian. She is also survived by nieces, nephews, great nieces and great nephews. Services and interment private.

So you're in a rock band, one that generally receives little acclaim from critics but the public loves the innocuous, spiritual rock music you write with the other members. You all blow up and in about five years sell 30 million records worldwide. Hit singles abound, and the band picks up a Grammy. But with such quick, massive success comes inflated egos, especially for the lead singer. The infighting eventually stifles the creativity. And the group fractures. We've heard these stories many times before; we've seen them unfold in Behind the Music documentaries on VH1. It's the story of guitarist Mark Tremonti and Creed, perhaps the biggest post-grunge band of the late-'90s.

They cropped up yesterday the minute Mark Gawel steered his county-owned Jeep Cherokee onto the Beltway exit leading to eastbound Liberty Road - so many signs in red and white and black and yellow, all illegally stuck in the grass or on telephone poles. Gawel and fellow Baltimore County code enforcement officer Ed Creed hopped out. They uprooted signs advertising stores, real estate deals and church functions, clipped others off electrical poles, dumped them all in the back of the Jeep, then drove a few yards down the street and started over.

The MTV generation is alive and well in Utah, mostly in the form of sassy teen-agers who wait in line to take turns singing on a tiny stage to the latest pop tunes from Total Request Live. At night, a star-studded lineup of performers - including Macy Gray, Barenaked Ladies, Train, Nelly Furtado, Goo Goo Dolls and Creed - has gyrated well past curfew, but despite Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson's best efforts, the events were forced to remain alcohol-free because they're on Mormon church property.