Tag: Bullshit
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“I Alone Can Fix It” Is BULLSHIT Top To Bottom. Any Woman Could Tell You THAT…
Among the statements Donald Trump has made that most reflect a personal ‘philosophy’ is that one: “I alone can fix it”. And it epitomizes not only NARCISSISTIC ‘thinking’ but MALE thinking, too. In fact, it IS how males tend to think and problem-solve — unilaterally. If you look at the mythological heroes we Americans have…
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Sometimes, It’s BEST To ‘Think Like’ A STORYTELLER…
If you want to have a shot at being a successful storyteller, you need to have a better grasp of how people actually tick than most other people. Storytellers who don’t get human beings right are soon employed doing other things — storytelling being out of their range. As any reader or audience member can…
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What Tribalism IS & ISN’T
Our illustrious, observant MSM points out a lot these days how TRIBAL we’ve all become (and how ‘it’s both sides’ fault that we HAVE become so tribal). As I’m fond of saying on these pages here, if you start from a place of BULLSHIT, you will only ever see BULLSHIT in front of you. And…
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Dear American News Media: Telling A Story Is Like ‘CLIMBING’ A Mountain – Not Just ‘LOOKING’ At One…
Mountains impress. They wow you with their existence, their enormity, their majesty, their size. On the one hand you want to revere it like a sentient creature, on the other, you want to climb it — not so much to master it as just to look it directly in the eye. You want the mountain…
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I Have To Be Honest: TrumpWorld Has My Creative Juices Flowing
A Universal Truth (well, Universal minus 30% of this country) – Donald Trump is the worst thing to happen to this country since the Civil War — and, before that, slavery. But even Hell On Earth, turns out, has the itsy-bitsiest of silver linings. Truth is a lot of us who ‘fancy ourselves’ as ‘creatives’…
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Is Jeff Sessions Too Stupid For Christianity?
Our ‘sistah-sight’ Mulligan Jesus (which, biased-biased-biased I highly recommend) asks what I think is a very provocative question: Is THIS MAN — Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions — too stupid for Christianity? We know already he’s TOO STUPID FOR JESUS… But,, who am I — a very humble atheist — to judge. That’s I leave…
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Storming The Bastille — Or Something Like It…
As the screws turn ever tighter on Donald Trump and his Criminal Enterprise — and as they behave in ways that shock more and more Americans to the point of doing something — an ‘Old World’ Battle Cry will be heard: “Storming the Bastille”. It’s come to mean ‘The People Seizing Power’. But that’s not…
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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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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…