Monthly Archives: August 2010
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It’s one thing to believe in imaginary lines; quite another to stand in them. Continue reading
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Glenn Beck, Karl Rove and the Reptile Brain
Just as Ayn Rand provides you with a series of pallative rationalizations for acting like a greedy prick and sneering at the less fortunate, so, too, Glenn Beck today provided his rationalizations for behaving like the worst kind of bigot against anyone not white, not in agreement with you, and all those horrible people with colored skin tones and liberal, humanitarian notions. Continue reading
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Sexy Gums and Reptile Brains
And, clearly, it works, else we wouldn’t see giant futuristic Coors® Locomotives appearing as irrationally as in any Magritte painting, splattering frost on the hot people in the street (and that “hot” is used in two senses). Coors® beer makes you cool! (And that “cool” is used in two senses.) Continue reading
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The Primary Story That’ll Get No Coverage
What just happened in Alaska with Ballot Measure 1 is just the tip of the iceberg of a national story about the unscrupulous manipulation of our electoral system by shadowy billionaires Continue reading
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The Sunday Funnies
Lot of breaking stories, fulminating. So, here’s the Tuesday funny pages. Courage.
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Deja Vu And Suchlike
I’ve been moving furniture all day, so instead, here’s “How I Spent My Summer Vacation” Part II. All but the last one are from California. Continue reading
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Yes, We Klan!
Ku Klux Klan parade, Washington D.C. 1925: It used to seem impossible that this could have happened the first time. Now it seems entirely possible it could happen again…. Continue reading
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A Guest Frog Blog
you shall never forgive yourself for not having read the subsection (Twain’s own translation) of “THE FROG JUMPING OF THE COUNTY OF CALAVERAS” contained below. Continue reading
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The Nattering Nabobs of N-Word-tivity
There is no “Mosque” being built at Ground Zero. There is only a Muslim YMCA being proposed for a couple of blocks away. The level of bigotry that we are allowing to pass is astonishing … Continue reading
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Rubber Baby Buggy Bunglers
John Nelson Darby, an early leader of a Fundamentalist movement that became known as Dispensationalism. Darby’s pre-tribulational view of the rapture was then picked up by a man named C.I. Scofield, who taught the view in the footnotes of his Scofield Reference Bible, which was widely distributed in England and America…. Continue reading
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Like Unto Mr. Ed
The Famous Mr. Ed was a talking horse, but he did not sing his theme song: People yakety yak the street and waste your time of day/ But Mr. Ed will never speak unless he has something to say. Mr. … Continue reading
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