• • • SCATOLOGY WEEK • • • A small single portion of the Bush/GOP Dung-heap dinner left behind for President Obama. THE PSYCHO-SOCIAL BASES OF SCATOLOGICAL HUMOR: THE UNMASKING OF THE SELF William G. Plank The existence of scatological humor is as a tension between two terms of a dialectic structure. The first term of this dialectic is the …
People, get ready. Justice is coming. You don’t believe it, do you. Not in your wildest dreams do you think you’ll see Junior Dubya the killer joker sitting in a holding tank, waiting for James Baker or some other Bush Family toad to come post his bail. So what does that say about America. That our president can use lies …
Although the death scenes in these two well-produced tubes were selected for their cinematic qualities, they can still set the mood for a more serious contemplation of your own mortality. Check’m out. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tqh2drbzZs&feature=related[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fvtm06DYhBo&feature=related[/youtube] I don’t need to tell you how large the idea of death looms in our collective consciousness, in our daily lives. After all, people are dying …
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VcvmoGjGNc[/youtube] Joseph A. Violante: We’ve heard a good deal recently about the 18 percent of men and women serving in Iraq and Afghanistan who are at risk for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or depression, according to an authoritative RAND Corporation study. Another 19 percent are estimated of having experienced traumatic brain injury (TBI) caused by improvised explosive devices that “rattle” …
Sorry, no time for blogging today! We have our dancing shoes on, and many miles to go before the next dawn. Play the healing music. Pretend Bush is already packed, and breaking out his chainsaw down in Crawford. Get your good on today and everyday, from now on. Ain’t nothin’ gonna stay the same.
“The greatest threat to American democracy today arises from a militant authoritarianism that has become a cancer upon the nation.” So says psychology professor Robert Altemeyer, who provided Wateregate whistle-blower John Dean with forty years of study on the authoritarian personality type that roughly 28 percent of Americans proudly call their modus operandi. John Dean: During the 2008 presidential campaign, …
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7yDbwWNCUc[/youtube] Our economic woes have pushed the two wars we’re still waging out of the headlines. But our sons and daughters are still still fighting and dying; our treasure continues to be wasted on Dick Bush‘s legacy of war crimes. Terrorists who would do us harm must be hunted down, but these unnecessary wars must end. Only Barack Obama will …
