Anger or Holmberg

Hey, let's play a game. I'll list several quotations below, and you tell me whether they're the work of fictional Weekly World News columnist Ed Anger or the sadly actual Times-Dispatch columnist Mark Holmberg. Answers later.
- On the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina:
I'M MAD AS HELL at the opportunism and raw thuggery that complicated rescue efforts in New Orleans. It has cost lives, inflamed a wide range of passions and made the entire nation look like spoiled barbarians. Sure, some of the looting was necessary, but WHAT GIVES THOSE SCUM THE RIGHT TO RUN WILD?
- On evolution:
If we teach children that everything the Bible says is dead wrong and to believe a bunch of cold-blooded scientists with microscopes instead, then is it any wonder that every time you turn on the TV, you hear that some nerd has just gone on a shooting spree at school or that teen pregnancy is skyrocketing through the roof?
- On The Passion of the Christ:
If Jesus had come in these times, would his fate have been any different? Hardly. The often mindless, self-absorbed nature of our society can be summed up symbolically in those bumper stickers that proclaim, "I'm spending my children's inheritance."
- On Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction:
I'm mighty glad the FCC has launched a full-scale obscenity investigation, but that's not enough. Our society is being destroyed by this godless sleaze.
- On the Catholic church scandals:
Not only do pedophile priests get a free ride, courtesy of "understanding" bishops, but celebrities who violate our children are allowed to walk the streets free for years -- even after the whole world knows their dirty little secret.
- On school violence:
But, alas, the famous sleuthing brothers of Bayport would likely have to undergo anger-management counseling in today's sissified climate of zero tolerance for any kind of hormonal expression. ... But we're teaching our children to be yellow, aren't we?

2 Comments:
100% Holmberg?
I have stopped reading Holmberg since he said the world is a worse place because it is becoming 'feminized.'
(a) that's so woman-hating, (b) he's wrong: the world is becoming more violent and aggressive every day, not more feminized.
Holmberg just crossed the line too far into Neanderthal world for me.
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