Saint Valentine: Master of Rats
Cross posted at AndroidsinLove.com:The following begins as a personal diary but proceeds to an analysis of some fundamental mythic themes that some may find interesting and relevant. Most likely...
View ArticleSupport the Troops? Why Should I?
Why should I support the troops? For purposes of thought-experiment, imagine if our military were made up entirely of mercenaries. Would we pin "support Blackwater" magnets on our cars? Why not?...
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Stephen Colbert Fathers Love Child With Hillary Clinton
In the his college days, Cartoonist Berkeley Breathed, of "Bloom County" fame, bet a friend, that he could create a hoax and get it on the wire services. He hoaxed that Lake Travis was infested with...
View ArticleMyths to be debunked: Israel is weak and threatened
A favored myth that is detrimental to our country: Israel is a weak and threatened state which can do no wrong and which must be supported at any cost (see hot debate on Galatea's diary). Reality:...
View ArticleThe True Threat to Marriage: Classics Departments
Dear Supreme Leader Bush, I fully agree with you that the greatest threat to our society is the rising, insurgent homo agenda. While people may point to our liberal media or Hollywood's obsession with...
View ArticleWe're for Censorship? Who Knew!
This Diary is not about that tall dude that ran for prez in 2004 or the latest sleazefest going on in the GOP. Not even about the election. Surprise! (C'mon they can't all be about the election)....
View ArticleMythology of America and Losing in Iraq
(Cross-posted at The Left Coaster.)Via Digby, Josh Marshal explains why adding 20,000 more troops will only exacerbate failure in Iraq, and that one of the solutions to extrication is that we “stop...
View ArticleAnother Letter from Virginia
In 1897, a letter was printed in the New York Sun, purportedly from a little girl named Virginia.Dear Editor—I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, "If you...
View ArticleLonging for the Good Old Days (that never were)
About once a month, I get some e-mail chain letter that carries on about how great Americans and America was in the 1950, and how, in comparison, we're all crap now. Mostly, they're the whining of...
View ArticleDid the 1950s produce superior brains?
I've received yet another chain e-mail telling me how superior things were in the 1950s. Actually, this one contends that our superior '50s world produced superior people with superior brains. The...
View ArticleBy Jove, it's Zeus
El Cabrero was amused last weekend to see the following Associated Press story:ATHENS, Greece - After all these centuries, Zeus may have a few thunderbolts left. A tiny group of worshippers plans a...
View ArticleConservapedia shows us the Way (w/poll)
Wikipedia, with 6 million articles in 250 languages, including 1.6 million in English was too liberal and godless, and now conservatives have a Godly alternative, Conservapedia, 4,300 articles, in one...
View ArticleThe Party that Cried Voter Fraud
After dancing around a laundry list of issues, the cause behind the firing of the eight US attorneys has come back again and again to a single issue: the Republican obsession with voter fraud...
View ArticleThere Was No Historical Jesus.
Crossposted at Conceptual GuerillaIt is at this time of the year that Christians await the celebration of the mystery that gives meaning to their beliefs. According to tradition, a man walked the earth...
View ArticleLet's face it guys; Civilization is in dire need of the Goddess
The historically destructive social structures of institutionalized religion and traditional politics were chiefly invented by MEN. Just as too much salt spoils the stew, too much "man" in mankind is a...
View ArticleTruths so obvious they're in front of our eyes
A general call back to popular rule, and honesty in politics, against the unreality of political discourse in this era.
View ArticleBush Makes A Comeback?
1818TodayClick on the links and compare the pictures for yourself.Mr. Bush had to wait an awful long time, but he's finally found a way to manipulate his way to the top again.
View ArticleClinton Surrogate: Obama is a god!!!!!!
Ok, that might not be exactly what Tom Buffenbarger, president of the machinists' union, meant when he addressed the crowd before Hillary's I-won't-congratulate-Obama-even-though-he-kicked-my-ass-AGAIN...
View ArticleSullivan's Mythology: Obama needs more Cowboy
Andy, Andy. You've been dreaming and droning about Obama Republicans, and they are there. But you've taken the Reagan Democrat mythology and spackled it onto the man from Illinois without...
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