In Roman mythology the deity Janus is represented as having two faces, one looking forward, one backward. He presides over doors, and beginnings. President Obama has said he is focused on the future, that America must move forward. But America is also looking for justice, and that means looking into the past as well. It makes sense that our new …
Every time I catch myself wondering How did we ever survive 8 years of this incurious, incompetent, and destructive idiot, I have to remind myself– not so fast. There’s a little something called inertia in the universe that is as applicable to the realm of human karma as it is to gravity and physics. As the economic crisis continues to …
It’s not nice to fool with mother nature, especially when she comes armed with a bad-ass 28′ high robot named GORT. Such is the lesson of the remake of the classic 1951 sci-fi film, The Day the Earth Stood Still. The original was set in the context of the Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union, when nuclear …
• • • SCATOLOGY WEEK • • • We can work it out. Leaving a Legacy of Shit for Barack to clean up may be the smartest thing Dick-Bush ever did. (Hold your nose and click it.) I don’t know about you, but I’m fed up. I’ve had enough shit from the Dick-Bush Debacle (D-BD) the past eight years to …
• • • 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 …
Evolution? Nope. Sarah believes in Creationism. That means she believes that Noah had a little fruit fly cage aboard the ark, where he kept a pair of fruit flies, right next to millions of other little cages with pairs of insects in them. But. Sarah is clearly jealous of the little critters. They’ve been to Paris; she hasn’t.
The Grand Oil Party slogging through the political wilderness Updating my initial compilation of the Obamacans (Republicans for Obama ) is becoming quite the task. Add endorsements from the likes of W’s former Secretary of State Colin Powell and press spokesman Scotty McClellan; former Reagan’s UN Secretary Kenneth Adleman; former McCain adviser Charles Fried; former Minnesota Republican Governor William Weld; …
