A Charge To Keep, by W.H.D. Koerner The above painting was proudly displayed in Governor George Bush‘s office in Austin, Texas. As Crooks and Liars describes it: In 1995, he issued a memo to his Texas staff, describing the painting, by W.H.D. Koerner in 1916, which he kept on his office wall. Bush told his aides: The…painting is based upon …
The New Joeker cover is catching shit from the Rebuplican Right; we think you ain’t seen nuthin’ yet. “Satire, like the razor keen, is best when scarcely felt or seen.” —Terry Kruger, after unknown IF YOU LOOKED CAREFULLY, you could probably spot the first satirical drawing by a human being in one of the rooms at Lascaux; no doubt some …
[T]he ‘content’ of a medium is like the juicy piece of meat carried by the burglar to distract the watchdog of the mind. –Marshall McLuhan Notwithstanding that people who suffer damage to the right parahippocampal gyrus are incapable of registering sarcasm (sometimes equated with satire, an arguable difference being the use of irony by the former to merely demean versus …
A Mind’s Eye View of Star Trek’s The Game In Star Trek: The Next Generation’s The Game (Episode 106, first aired 10/28/91), the crew of the Enterprise becomes totally addicted to a virtual reality game brought aboard the ship from an alien world. A slick pair of VR specs sends visual imagery to brain, energizing the brain’s serotonin and …
Some are calling it “Too little too late,” while others are reflexively saying, “Better late than never.” Either way, everyone seems to be gathering strength from the simple calendrical fact that the worst disaster in American presidential history is approaching its scheduled end. We’re talking of course, of the Bush Preznincy, currently inflicting its last several months on a weary …
Like so many others who are brainwashed into believing that every politician can be stuffed into the left-right-centrist meme of MSM convenience—no need to think, just do what you’re told and say he’s a “progressive leftist!”— it’s no surprise such reasoning reveals a steady diet of MSM garbage in-garbage out. But it also reveals that its victims haven’t grokked that …
He may as well be a brother from another planet: “Greetings; Take me as I am— not as you think I should be.” The “new politics” of Barack Obama are leaving many Americans lost in his dust. Traditionally they may have been categorized— and understood themselves to be— “liberals,” “conservatives,” “progressives,” “Republicans,” “Democrats,” and “Independents.” Not so surprisingly, a sizable …
