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Evil’s Too Smart To ‘Billboard Itself’; That’s Why It Births Itself In Banality…
Maybe it’s ‘my’ fault… ‘Our‘ fault if I include the rest of my screenwriting ‘tribe’. I could widen the tribe out to include anyone and everyone who ever helped make a movie that gave an audience the notion that Evil is BILLBOARD OBVIOUS the moment it ‘walks on stage’. Alas, if only more of my…
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Most Christians Only Like The Bible For ‘The Good Parts’ Anyway…
I rail often here about Christians and their insincerity. Yeah, sure — low hanging fruit and all but — but even low hanging fruit tastes good and has some nutritional value. So I’ll pick it. Simple fact: Most American Christians know virtually nothing about their professed faith. They’ve NEVER read ‘The Bible’. Most have never…
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America: ‘Died Of A Theory’?
I’m a History Geek. Among the History topics that Geek me out most is The Civil War — you know, that ‘thing’ we fought for ‘States Rights’ according to Revisionist (Southern) History but really fought cos SLAVERY. Ken Burns’ ‘Civil War’ series is Nirvana. The first time I heard David McCoullough’s exquisite baritone caressing the…
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Marx Was Wrong; Religion Isn’t ‘The Opiate Of The Masses’, It’s The Fast Food
My pal MULLIGAN JESUS promotes a Fast Food Brand called McOoga-Boogas… The main menu option at McOoga-Booga’s is, of course, ‘The Whopper’. Piled high with bullshit, topped off with more bullshit and sprinkles of willful ignorance — accompanied by sides of Sanctimony and Lack of Imagination — talk about ‘a meal’. Most Americans don’t approach…
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Maybe Our Takeaway From Trumpism SHOULD Be: We Didn’t Punish Richard Nixon Nearly Hard Enough
There is a direct link between Richard Nixon and Donald J Trump. Or should I say links… There’s the ‘thematic’ one of course — the ‘Country Club Authoritarianism’ personified by Roger Stone… …that views American political norms and anyone not in their club with disdain and disgust. This is the ‘Silent Majority’ part of the link…
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If Bullshit Had A ‘Hall Of Fame’…
Bullshit comes with being Human. We don’t know yet if Bullshit comes with being sentient; do other animals capable of conscious thought LIE to each other when necessary? Why would we assume they didn’t? I’m just saying — Lying and Bullshit seem so natural to us that it could be an organic outgrown of having…
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Hey, America — Next Time, Let’s Take Better Care of Our Democracy, Okay?
There’s a Joni Mitchell song — pretty well known — with a lyric that goes something like this — They paved paradise And put up a parking lot With a pink hotel, a boutique And a swinging hot spot Don’t it always seem to go That you don’t know what you’ve got ‘Till it’s gone…
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The Urge To “Off Yourself” Explained
Three days before Christmas 2016, I was close enough to killing myself that my two GPs wanted to hospitalize me. But I refused. I had gone there to take one last ‘stab’ at saving myself. I was at such a nakedly emotional, impulsive place that I was capable at any moment of acting out in…
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Want My Vote? First Question: Is Your Core ‘Belief System’ Based On Real Or RUBBISH?
Here’s the conundrum atheists have faced at each and every election. We have to cast a ballot for people making Life & Death decisions for us. At the presidential level those are LITERAL Life & Death Decisions. A POTUS has the power to literally wipe out huge chunks of humanity. Not ‘quite’ with the press…