Lewis Carroll’s Humpty Dumpty, the embodiment of modern day GOPer propaganda techniques “I don’t know what you mean by ‘glory,’ ” Alice said. Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. “Of course you don’t—till I tell you. I meant ‘there’s a nice knock-down argument for you!’ ” “But ‘glory’ doesn’t mean ‘a nice knock-down argument’,” Alice objected. “When I use a word,” Humpty …
“I am still deeply inspired to continue the elusive pursuit of giving shape to the formless and definition to the indescribable.”
Don’t you just hate it when this happens? Saul of Tsarsus, aka the Apostle Paul, was a Jew, a highly trained Pharisee in fact. He enjoyed Roman citizenship, a privilege that less than 8% of those who lived in the vast Roman Empire at the time could claim. Legend has it that despite his penchant for helping send many early …
What do Ayn Rand, Paul Ryan, the Teabaggers, and Lucifer have in common? (If you want to feel the backward, you must click it.) In Ayn Rand’s 1957 novel and current movie, Atlas Shrugged, the ideological template for those wishing to usher in a new Gilded Age run by billionaire plutocrats like the Koch Brothers, Atlas is meant to symbolize …
I routinely ignore media coverage of the upcoming royal wedding between Prince Whatzhizname, and his bride to be, the commoner and soon to be Princess Whatzhername, whenever same happens to pass before my cognitive screen. But as a longtime Monty Python fan who pines for the golden age of their satirical brilliance, this little ditty (ignore the commercial sponsor) had …
Stephen picks up where we left off in The Nutty Professor, offering his very own emergency Beck pack: “Everything you need to survive in a post Glenn world.” Among other essential survival items, it includes two dozen cans of pure distilled Glenn: “Keep your Beck pack on at all times and we need never face our greatest fear: not …
“The human toll here looks to be much worse than the economic toll and we can be grateful for that.” WTF.
