The best political discourse takes places in Monty Python and the Holy Grail
[clop clop]
ARTHUR: Old woman!
DENNIS: Man!
ARTHUR: Old Man, sorry. What knight live in that castle over there?
DENNIS: I’m thirty seven.
ARTHUR: What?
DENNIS: I’m thirty seven — I’m not old!
ARTHUR: Well, I can’t […]
I wrote an article called Don’t Save the Whales and the results have been unanimously negative, hostile — even murderous. I call these 14-year-olds who consider me worthy of being harpooned, flayed, and killed, the Whale-Qaeda! Don’t you love that?
According to many many people, I am an awful awful man, given the comments I have received in response to Don’t Save the Whales. I can live with this sort of accusation given the context and the source. VivyRome wrote:
You Rude Obnoxious idiot! How dare you put your CRUDE opinoins out there like that? […]
So, I returned to a previous blog entry, The Culture of “Acting White” Anti-Intellectualism Will Kill America, and rekindled the conversation. Rarely, if ever, you can get things rolling again. And, thankfully, we were able to make some pretty amazing conversation. The comment thread following The Culture of “Acting White” Anti-Intellectualism Will Kill America is […]
Shel Holz is smart and insightful in his response to the bad rap that PR gets these days: “The lying profession? Please. … And who, in this era of like-it-or-not transparency, believes they can get away with a lie anyway?” Via Strumpette. My response? I feel the same way about the reputation of the […]
Mark writes, “I decided to celebrate this International Workers’ Day by driving the rover with my family into the remote mountains here in southern Tanzania to a fly-fishing and hunting lodge . . .”
2+2=5 has nothing to do with new math, chaos theory, quantum mechanics, or Buddhism. Rather, 2+2=5 refers to George Orwell’s book 1984, Part Three, Chapter Two. It is a passive-aggressive, too-subtle, protest against American Imperialism.
Of course, this is the kind of reference that paints the left into a corner, because as long as they are […]
My friend Jee suggested I read up on Courtly Love, which comes to us from medieval Europe.
I put it off and put it off and in a spare cycle I went ahead and Googled it. I wonder if Jee realizes that there is a distinct difference between a renaissance festival and Renassance Weekend?
I thought […]