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Posted March 12, 2007 Disinfostrology
 Google's Best Film Review of the Week Here's Google's translation of a German review of
the film Laurel Canyon.
Laurel Canyon is called the
road, which leads musicians by the heart of the Hollywood Hills in L.A. and to
their adjacents resident for decades mainly and Bohemians belong. Calculated
here - into that house of its eternal Hippie nut/mother empties Jane allegedly -
it pulls to the solid Harvard graduates SAM and its engaged
Alex.
First surprise: The two are not in their provisional home at the Laurel Canyon alone. Jane is here still busy with the admission of a hit single for rising skirt volume. SAM was always Janes of carefree Sex, Drugs & skirt n roll Lifestyle an atrocity. The fact that it has volume, Ian, an affair with the substantially younger singer that does not make the thing better. When the two completely different worlds, Alex feels one on the other-stout drawn to Ian and Jane ever more, while SAM looks for more and more the proximity of its attractive colleague Sara, the world stands for head suddenly - and their relationship on the play for both. That's 20 Bucks
Extra
"Federal prosecutors want to gag an indicted former Washington, D.C. madam
who has recently threatened to go public with details about her former
customers."
Gallery of the
Week
 Go ahead, try to convince yourself you DON'T
want to see
Don't Take My Word
For It
"The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the
artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we
can hope for is to put some order into ourselves."
- Willem de Kooning -
"Well, Mr. Bush, Jr. I have some impertinent
questions for you. Mr. President, Sir, when reporter Bob Woodward asked you if
you had consulted with your father before ordering our army into Iraq you said,
'No, he's not the father you call on a decision like this. I talked to my
heavenly Father above.' My question, Mr. President: If God asked you to bombard,
invade and occupy Iraq for four years, why did he send an opposite message to
the Pope? Did you not know that your father, George Bush, Sr., his Secretary of
State James Baker and his National Security Advisor General Scowcroft were all
opposed to your invasion? Wouldn't you, our troops, the American people and the
Iraqis all be much better off if you had listened to your more experienced
elders including your earthly father? Instead of blaming God for the awful
catastrophe you have unleashed in Iraq, wouldn't it have been less
self-righteous if you had fallen back on the oft-quoted explanation of
wrongdoing, 'The devil made me do it?'"
- George McGovern: An Impartial
Interrogation of George W. Bush -
"We've almost begun to
take it for granted that climate change is a man-made phenomenon. But just as
the environmental lobby think they've got our attention, a group of naysayers
have emerged to slay the whole premise of global warming."
"In that period of maximum confusion, of poverty
and social disorder, of betrayal, violence, unpunished crimes and every sort of
illegality, the bishops' pastoral letters to the faithful went on discussing,
preferably, such themes as women's immodest dress, promiscuous bathing on the
beaches, new dances of exotic origin, and traditional bad language. That
evasion, on the part of shepherds who had always claimed the moral leadership of
their flock, was an intolerable scandal."
- Ignazio Silone on the
rise of fascism in Italy -
"Sixty percent of Americans
can't name five of the Ten Commandments, and 50% of high school seniors think
Sodom and Gomorrah were married. Stephen Prothero, chairman of the
religion department at Boston University, isn't laughing. Americans' deep
ignorance of world religions their own, their neighbors' or the combatants in
Iraq, Darfur or Kashmir is dangerous, he says.
"His new book, Religious Literacy: What Every American
Needs to Know and Doesn't, argues that everyone needs to grasp Bible
basics, as well as the core beliefs, stories, symbols and heroes of other
faiths...
"'If you want to be involved,
you need to know what they're saying. We're doomed if we don't understand what
motivates the beliefs and behaviors of the rest of the world. We can't outsource
this to demagogues, pundits and preachers with a political
agenda.'...
"Prothero's solution is to
require middle-schoolers to take a course in world religions and high schoolers
to take one on the Bible. Biblical knowledge also should be melded into history
and literature courses where relevant. He wants all college undergrads to take
at least one course in religious studies...
"[I]t's the widely
misunderstood 1963 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that may have been the
tipping point: It removed devotional Bible reading from the schools but spelled
out that it should not have been removed from literature and
history.
"'The decision clearly states you can't be educated without
it, but it scared schools so much they dropped it all,' Goff says."
- Cathy Lynn Grossman: Americans
get an 'F' in religion -
"In November of 2005, Congress
eliminated funding for the development of the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator a
provocative bunker buster weapon intended for use against hardened enemy
targets. But the push for new nuclear weapons has not ended. The Bush
Administration has proposed a new weapons program, the Reliable Replacement
Warhead (RRW) aimed at building new and improved nuclear warheads. Congress
voted to spend over $20 million on the fledgling program in FY 07 - with
projected spending in the tens of billions if the program continues.
"Ostensibly, the goal of the RRW program is to increase the
reliability and security of the U.S. nuclear arsenal by building a new
generation of warheads. As stated by leaders in the weapons industry, the
ultimate hope is to move from a program of warhead refurbishment to one of
warhead replacement. In other words, the nuclear weapons labs are hoping to move
from the mundane maintenance of existing nuclear warheads to the more
stimulating design of new nuclear weapons...
"[T]he RRW program presents
several immediate problems. To begin with, it would drastically damage the
international credibility of the United States especially at a time when the
U.S. is pressuring Iran and North Korea to give up their nuclear programs.
Indeed, it will be extremely difficult for the U.S. to maintain a legitimate
position on non-proliferation when it seeks to build a new generation of nuclear
weapons. Emerging nuclear states will view U.S. foreign policy as hypocritical,
and even worse, non-nuclear states may interpret the United States renewed
commitment to warhead production as a reaffirmation of the legitimacy of nuclear
weapons in the 21st century. As a result, these non-nuclear states may pursue
their own weapons programs in an effort to gain power and recognition on the
international stage."
- Physicians for Social Responsibility: The
Reliable Replacement Warhead: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Nuclear Weapons
Program -
"This particular document discusses the history of
apprenticeships - especially the role of medieval guilds - and attempts to make
a case for nations which heretofore have cherished liberal economic ideas (i.e.,
individual economic freedom) to return to a system of cooperative economic
solutions (the guild system used in the Middle Ages which accepted very young
children from farms and cities and trained them in necessary skills). Another
word for this is serfdom. Had our elected officials at the federal, state, and
local levels read this document, they could never have voted in favor of
socialist/fascist legislation implementing workforce training to meet the needs
of the global economy. Unless, of course, they happen to support such a
totalitarian economic system. (This incredible document was accessed here.)
"In the fall of l972 a small group of students, in an
introduction to educational psychology class at a Midwestern university, saved
every single soul in [an imaginary] lifeboat. The professor became agitated. No!
Go back and do the exercise again. Follow the instructions. The students,
products of the radical 1960s culture, expected this to be a small group
assignment in creativity and ingenuity. They had worked out an intricate plan
whereby everyone in the lifeboat could survive. When the professor persisted,
the students resisted - and ultimately refused to do the exercise. Chalk up a
victory to the human spirit. However, it was a short-lived victory. This
overloaded lifeboat in crisis represented a dramatic shift in education."
- Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt: The Deliberate Dumbing Down of
America -
"A worm is the only animal that can't fall
down."
- Bob Dylan -
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Chapter 1
The Inmates It was a good night to be insane. Pitch black, rain pouring heavily, lightning striking again and again, perfect for lighting up the old wooden sign outside the crumbling gray stone walls of "The Gainesville Asylum for the Insane," with the word "insane" crossed off in crayon and the words "mentally handicapped" scrawled nearby, and the words "mentally handicapped" crossed off in chalk with the words "perfectly normal" scribbled next to them. There must have been an insane cackle breaking the momentum of the storm as lightning struck again and again, barely illuminating a skeleton key opening an old lock on a dirty door, heavy with age, squeaking open with a rusty creak. Another insane cackle. Yep, the insane like nights like this. It takes them outside themselves, forcing them to ponder the outside world as it really is, a random series of powerful illuminations, rather than the inside world, which varies splendidly in the sparkling synapses of the cerebral cortex of each individual, sane or not. |
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The Critics Agree
Looks like it might be “REALLY GOOD” - Publisher’s Discount Outlet Not quite as “HILARIOUS” as I thought it was going to be - New York Times Falls far short of “THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL” - Joyce Carol Oates Tries very hard to be “THE FUNNIEST BOOK YOU’LL EVER READ” - Norman Mailer “I WISH I’D THOUGHT OF IT” because if it had been written by me it would have been much better - Dave Barry When I stopped reading and turned on The Family Guy, “I COULDN’T STOP LAUGHING” - Carl Hiaasen Almost achieves something “INCREDIBLY GREAT” but falls far short - The Village Voice The author obviously thinks he’s a “GENIUS” - Psychiatry Today If you want something “ENORMOUSLY ENTERTAINING” look elsewhere - Books in Print “INSPIRED” me to write a better book - P.J. O’Roarke It starts out fairly RATIONAL, but about halfway through you're bound to tell yourself "this is NUTS." A second later, you will nod as another voice in your head says "PRECISELY." - Sigmund Freud $20 for the quality paperback from Cafepress. $10 for a PDF file directly to your mailbox, preferably with Paypal, or write me and tell me why you think you deserve a free copy. "Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization." - Lincolm Steffens - "Artists lie to tell the truth. Politicians lie to hide it." | |