How did the halloweenish Holy Ghost of my youth transform into today’s bland Holy Spirit?
I guess it’s a crappy era even for the Trinity.
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I can’t seem to restrain myself from the occasional dollop of political commentary, if only to prove that I can sound every bit as boneheaded as a media commentator. So here, I’m putting all the small fulminations together to get them out of the way.
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The presidential election this year is on Guy Fawkes Day, November 5 – what better way to commemorate the Gunpowder Plot of 1605!
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Campaign poster suggestion:
“Support Tump’s campaign to turn America into the Leading Shithole Country on Earth! Right now, today, stop government interference in the lives of America’s real citizens by ending all public support for the sick, aged and different-looking, who only drag our country down.
“C’mon, let’s Make America Groan Again and Again and Again!”
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Hatred of immigrants is the universal evolutionary fear of the “other” – in all countries, in all mammals, in all life forms.
In the U.S., it’s been a repeating theme used against the Irish, the Chinese, the Catholics, the Jews, the Blacks. This fury against immigrants is in our DNA, in the the DNA of all living things (except, weirdly, most fungi, who are fine at lending a helpful thread to a plant).
The great white replacement theory is just the result of a pressure of too many people worldwide living with too much misery, and looking for an outlet that, alas, doesn’t exist.
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Intelligence, too, is just the latest paste-on to evolution, and like all of evolution, it’s taken an erratic route in its development, with random perversions.
Our vaunted idea of “justice” is a social novelty, its glories ill-defined and unsupported by evidence. How can we prove that decency is worthwhile, when a huge swath of the electorate sees it as an impediment to self-realization?
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All the fuss about Biden’s and Trump’s age…. Throughout history, within indigenous tribes and across most of the far East, age has been linked with wisdom. There’s been the assumption that in growing up – maturing – you listen to your elders, respect your grandparents, and seek their accumulated knowledge. I assumed that much well before I became fogied myself (I’m now 85, past time to drink my hemlock).
Biden confuses names? I’ve done that my whole life, as have at least half the people I know.
What you need to master to become a worthwhile leader in any endeavor is the nature of the problems you’re dealing with, the facts behind any given situation, and how to choose among the available possibilities to deal with both the general and the particular.
If you mis-identify two French presidents whose names begin with M, you can simply say, “Pardon me.” But if you can’t identify France as part of Europe, that can be… rather disturbing.
As for Trump, he can identify only two entities: Me and Not-Me.
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Say, did you hear about the self-encapsulated socialite who was voted Miss Demeanor?
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Why are so many today so afraid of sex? Why should we care who screws whom? And what possible evil can the country’s handful of the transgendered release, beyond flooding our vocabulary with pronouns?
There’s no thought involved in the negative reaction to anyone’s sexuality, no intelligence – just a pavlovian negative response, along with the inability to see the world as a human setting that we’re all part of (and communally doing our best to destroy).
And I wish to hell we’d just switch to unisex bathrooms, like a civilized society.
Urinals and bidets for all!
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Nostalgic ditty:
I want a girl,
Just like the girl,
That shagged my dear old dad.
She was the girl,
And the only girl,
So it wasn’t just a fad.
A good old fashioned girl
With Great Big Tits,
The kind of girl that gave my mammy fits.
I want a girl,
Just like the girl
That shagged my dear old dad.
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A train that went fully psychotic had previously been cited for its loco motives.
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