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FREEDOM AND WEEP
Posted April 3, 2007


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Shlomo
Shlomo, the Gay Moyl
 
"Effective immediately, The Jewish Theological Seminary will accept qualified gay and lesbian students to our rabbinical and cantorial schools."
- Actual press release from the JTS -
 
Uh oh, I smell a sitcom. Coming this fall on Fox, it's...
 
Shlomo
Shlomo
The openly gay moyl
Living with a guy
Doesn't want a goil
 
Shlomo
Shlomo
Don't give him a kiss
Unless you want your party
to turn into a bris
 
He went to shul - his parents gave him quite a send off
Don't let him see your penis or he'll cut the end off
He does a little thing he calls a circumcision
but he's gotta wear his glasses if you want precision
 
Shlomo
Shlomo
The Openly Gay (and unfortunately nearsighted) Moyl
 
Shlomo comes home to his life partner, Moishe, who's preparing a soufflé.
 
Shlomo: Hoo boy, did I have a hard day.
 
Moishe: You had a hard day? My sideburns kept getting in the soufflé batter.
 
Shlomo: Easier than slicing off the ends of peckers of squirming babies.
 
Moishe: Stop complaining. You get more dick than Michael Jackson.
 
Shlomo: Oi, you're such a tease. Look at that punim. Gimme a kiss, you great big mensch.
 
Shlomo dumps a bag of foreskins on the living room table, gets out a couple of knitting needles, and begins knitting.
 
Moishe: What are you doing?
 
Shlomo: I'm making you a wallet.
 
Moishe: Out of those?
 
Shlomo: Yes. And the great thing is when you rub it, it'll turn into a suitcase.

Lots of canned laughter.
 
Cut to Viagra commercial.
 
The Magic Button Returns
 
You know the magic button, the one that magically makes hypothetical things happen? Surely you've got one. No? I've got three for you.
 
 
Push the button and absolutely everybody in the United States who has gotten away with premeditated murder is magically removed from society and transported to prison, forgetting for the moment that prisons aren't necessarily the best possible way to deal with sociopaths. I'm sure there's another button somewhere that treats sociopaths properly, but that's not this button. All this button does is remove potentially dangerous criminals from the public, making the world a safer place. How many would it be? Surely there are thousands of unsolved murders where the perp is still around.
 
Hell, I'd push the button. Wouldn't you?
 
 
Then there's button number two. Push it and absolutely everybody in the United States who has gotten away with forcible rape is magically removed from society the same way. Fuck them. Sure, I'd push it.
 
 
Push button number three and absolutely everybody in the United States who has gotten away with smoking marijuana is magically removed from society and put in prison. We're talking something in the neighborhood of 30 million people. Would you push the button?
 
No?
 
Good, you just came out in favor of the complete legalization of marijuana.
 
 I Feel So Much Safe Now
 
    "Former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld cannot be tried on allegations of torture in overseas military prisons, a federal judge said Tuesday in a case he described as 'lamentable.'
    "U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan threw out a lawsuit brought on behalf of nine former prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan. He said Rumsfeld cannot be held personally responsible for actions taken in connection with his government job.
    "The lawsuit contends the prisoners were beaten, suspended upside down from the ceiling by chains, urinated on, shocked, sexually humiliated, burned, locked inside boxes and subjected to mock executions...
    "'Despite the horrifying torture allegations,' Hogan said, he could find no case law supporting the lawsuit, which he previously had described as unprecedented.
    "Allowing the case to go forward, Hogan said in December, might subject government officials to all sorts of political lawsuits. Even Osama bin Laden could sue, Hogan said, claiming two American presidents threatened to have him murdered.
    'There is no getting around the fact that authorizing monetary damages remedies against military officials engaged in an active war would invite enemies to use our own federal courts to obstruct the Armed Forces' ability to act decisively and without hesitation,' Hogan wrote Tuesday."
 
"Does this mean all civil servants can torture people with impunity? Sure explains the way I'm treated at the DMV."
- guy who's gotta know -
 
    "Slashdot and Cryptome report that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is demanding the master key for the DNS root zone - a demand that has other nations alarmed. With the master key, DHS would have control over the Internet, as Slashdot describes, quoting an anonymous reader. - 'The key will play an important role in the new DNSSec security extension, because it will make spoofing IP-addresses impossible. By forcing the IANA [Internet Assigned Numbers Authority] to hand out a copy of the master key, the US government will be the only institution that is able to spoof IP addresses and be able to break into computers connected to the Internet without much effort.'"
    "When other nations are worried, Americans, too, should be concerned. The Bush administration has demonstrated that it is unable to wield power responsibly. Therefore, its demand for Internet control should be viewed as an opportunity to abuse its authority to control a medium that has played a critical role in holding it accountable."
 
The Best Atheist on Television
Emily Deschanel
 
The latest episode of Bones, The Priest in the Courtyard (aired March 28), was a remarkable thing to see on prime time television, much less on Fox. In a display of total disregard for her partner's religious beliefs, Emily Deschanel, playing forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan, revealed her true colors during her investigation of a murder at a church cemetery. She casually referred to God as her partner's "invisible friend" and the church as "supernatural mythology." And Rupert Murdoch let this on the air? Here are some more actual quotes:
 
    "I'm supposed walk on eggshells because someone believes that a plot of earth has supernatural properties because somebody waved a wand over it?"
    "Funny, a man who believes in an invisible superbeing wants to run my personal life."
    "At one time most people were certain that the sun moved around the earth."
    "Can't you just be satisfied that if I'm wrong about God, I'll burn in hell?"
    "You know it was the Druids who first thought of the Yew tree as sacred. The Christians adopted the belief claiming it as their own."
    "Actually, organized belief systems which fail to adapt to changing morays are demoted from religions to acknowledged metaphoric myth systems. I mean no one worships Odin any more, or Zeus."
    "Can we take this with us or do we have to serve a warrant on God?"
    "I'm not attacking God, he doesn't exist so how can I?"
 
News for Unicorns
 
Thurber's missing unicorn wasn't so much a hoax as part of a contest.
 
Sophistimicated Doowacky of the Week
 
An Inconvenient Spam
Hotel Lobby
 
Maybe you got it too, a series of pictures claiming to be the home of royalty, Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan al Nahyan, with the caption "Amazing what $2.75 a gallon can buy." It's clearly an Arab palace in the desert, apparently bought with oil money, and it pisses you off royally.
 
So you go to Snopes and find out it's NOT the home of Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan al Nahyan but actually a hotel lobby in Abu Dhabi.
 
And that's supposed to make it all better.
 
Except it was STILL bought with oil money and we're currently paying around $3.00 a gallon.
 
And it's unquestionably the most extravagant expendature I've ever seen. Me, you, nobody we know will ever be able to afford to spend one single night there.
 
So I'm still pissed, only not as royally.
 
$100 Million in Boner Pill Ads Guarantees This Story Will Never Be on US Television
 
    "A chance discovery by a Berkshire allotment-holder that a plant widely available in garden centres has the same effect on men as Viagra has been confirmed by experts at one of the world's leading botanical institutions.
    "The plant is winter-flowering heather, and botanists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, many of them heather experts who have recognised the source of its active ingredient, now expect it to be the next must-have plant in British gardens. Demand is already high. Nurseries and garden centres in some areas are having trouble finding sufficient supplies as word spreads of the plant's unexpected properties...
    "The latest gardening craze was triggered by a discovery by a 55-year-old furniture restorer, Michael Ford, on his allotment. He was always experimenting with drinks made from different plants and one day he tried an infusion from his winter-flowering heather. He said: 'The effect was almost immediate. I had to stay in my potting shed for an hour or so before I could decently walk down the street.'"
 
Caption Contest Results
 
GWB's stomach ulcer is making a desperate bid for freedom.
- Joe -
 
Heart? What heart?
- Jed Closson -
 
I pledge allegiance to the belly of the Commander in Chief and to the food with which it is filled,
one burger, under cheese, cut in half, with secret sauce and freedom fries.
- Ben King -
 
Who farted?
- james and katherine allard -
 
"Dick, Dick Cheney, are you all right? You had a reaction to your heart meds and were spouting gibberish for the past six years.
You passed out after your top aid was convicted, but we think you'll be fine. Now... how many fingers are we holding up?"
 
Napoleon Bonaparte, eat your heart out.
 
"Is that... Roseanne?"
- Baron Dave -
 
"Uh oh... gotta do poops NOW!"
- Jimmy Yellen -
 
"It's fun to stay at the I - R - A - Q !"
(With apologies to the Village People)
- Scott Marinoff -
 
DEMONSTRATING THAT THE WAY TO A MAN'S HEART IS THROUGH HIS STOMACH,
DECIDER GEORGE W BUSH POSES FOR A PHOTO OP.
IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING, HE WAS GIVEN THE PROMISED COOKIE.
- Herr Bookmonger -
 
Lets all samba!
 
Will anyone notice if I zip my fly back up?
 
I could have had a V-8! Oh, no, I'm supposed to hit my forehead.
 
You put your right hand in, you put your right hand out, you do the hokey pokey and you shake it all about.
 
I pledge my gut to the United States of America.
 
Boy, even after 3200 military deaths, I still get nauseated.
 
Are we still doing the Macarena?
 
Will someone get me a Bean-o?
 
Do I use my right hand or my left?
 
Blonde guy between two little girls: "Oh, my God, the President stole my wallet!"
 
- Lynette Sheffield -
 
Stupid Question of the Week
 
Anybody got a copy of that new Buffy the Vampire Slayer comic book?
 
Send your answer to fat chance.
 
"Quotes" of the Week
 
U.K. defense secretary says talks are under way over 15 captured troops. Iran's Arabic satellite channel announced Sunday it would soon air "confessions" from two of the 15 captured British sailors, hours after about 200 Iranian youths threw rocks and firecrackers at the British Embassy in protest over the escalating standoff between the two nations.
 
Why are quotation marks used around the word confession when the confessions are made by UK troops held in Iran - but when prisoners at Guantanamo Bay are tortured by the US into confessing 31 acts of terrorism, no quotation marks are used around the word?
 
Moron That Story
 
"Gee, what would be the perfect manufactured excuse for invading a country? How about deliberately letting them capture some of your sailors? Then you've got to go in to save them. Yeah, that'll work."
- Karl Rove -
 
    "I share the outrage expressed in the British press over the treatment of our naval personnel accused by Iran of illegally entering their waters. It is a disgrace. We would never dream of treating captives like this - allowing them to smoke cigarettes, for example, even though it has been proven that smoking kills. And as for compelling poor servicewoman Faye Turney to wear a black headscarf, and then allowing the picture to be posted around the world - have the Iranians no concept of civilised behaviour? For God's sake, what's wrong with putting a bag over her head? That's what we do with the Muslims we capture: we put bags over their heads, so it's hard to breathe. Then it's perfectly acceptable to take photographs of them and circulate them to the press because the captives can't be recognised and humiliated in the way these unfortunate British service people are.
    "It is also unacceptable that these British captives should be made to talk on television and say things that they may regret later. If the Iranians put duct tape over their mouths, like we do to our captives, they wouldn't be able to talk at all. Of course they'd probably find it even harder to breathe - especially with a bag over their head - but at least they wouldn't be humiliated.And what's all this about allowing the captives to write letters home saying they are all right? It's time the Iranians fell into line with the rest of the civilised world: they should allow their captives the privacy of solitary confinement. That's one of the many privileges the US grants to its captives in Guantanamo Bay.
    "The true mark of a civilised country is that it doesn't rush into charging people whom it has arbitrarily arrested in places it's just invaded. The inmates of Guantanamo, for example, have been enjoying all the privacy they want for almost five years, and the first inmate has only just been charged. What a contrast to the disgraceful Iranian rush to parade their captives before the cameras!"
 
    "The British Government has published a map showing the coordinates of the incident, well within an Iran/Iraq maritime border. The mainstream media and even the blogosphere has bought this hook, line and sinker.
    "But there are two colossal problems.
    "A) The Iran/Iraq maritime boundary shown on the British government map does not exist. It has been drawn up by the British Government. Only Iraq and Iran can agree their bilateral boundary, and they never have done this in the Gulf, only inside the Shatt because there it is the land border too. This published boundary is a fake with no legal force.
    "B) Accepting the British coordinates for the position of both HMS Cornwall and the incident, both were closer to Iranian land than Iraqi land. Go on, print out the map and measure it. Which underlines the point that the British produced border is not a reliable one.
- Craig Murray: Fake Maritime Boundaries -
 
Satan Doesn't Want You to Know
 
Only poisoned pets go to heaven.
 
Don't Take My Word For It
 
"Never mistake motion for action."
- Ernest Hemingway -
 
"You play the way you practice."
- William J. McMinn -
 
"If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence."
- Bertrand Russell: Roads to Freedom -
 
"I'm a good believer in capitalism, which when you're making it is wonderful and if you're not, it fucks you and stabs your heart and rips your entrails out. Without money, you're dead in this society. When I had no money, I had nothing. Women didn't like me as much, I wasn't as charming. I was alone most of the time. Hookers never throw you a charity fuck and with shrinks I could not get therapy."
- Al Goldstein -
 
"Do you solemnly swear to tell the truth, but not necessarily the whole truth, maintaining an overall average of at least 70 percent truth, subject to later verification by an independent panel, so help you God?"
 
"There is no meaning existing in life - one has to create it. Only if you create it will you discover it. It has to be invented first. It is not lying there like a rock; it has to be created like a song. It is not a thing; it is a significance that you bring through your consciousness. Don't wait for it. It never comes by just waiting."
- Osho -
 
    "There are two fundamental truths about the war in Iraq. The first is that the administration did not tell the American people the true reasons for this war. Whether it was through deliberate lies or by false intelligence, the consequence is equal. The second is that the democratic election that took place in Iraq in 2005 was a victory for the majority Shiite, and for their sponsors, Iran. 
    "The administration insisted on early elections to demonstrate the Iraqi populace was prepared and eager for democratic governance. The election may have been free and democratic, but the results of the elections established the contrary. 
    "Iran through its surrogate Muqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi army provided money and influence,  and if necessary coercion, to assure the election of their chosen candidates. Those Shiite candidates won majority control of the Iraqi government."
- Morgan Strong: Why Iran Won in Iraq -
 
"Let me clear it up for any moron with lingering doubts: It's worse. It's over. You lost. You lost the day your tanks rolled into Baghdad to the cheers of your imported, American-trained monkeys. You lost every single family whose home your soldiers violated. You lost every sane, red-blooded Iraqi when the Abu Ghraib pictures came out and verified your atrocities behind prison walls as well as the ones we see in our streets. You lost when you brought murderers, looters, gangsters and militia heads to power and hailed them as Iraq's first democratic government. You lost when a gruesome execution was dubbed your biggest accomplishment. You lost the respect and reputation you once had. You lost more than 3000 troops. That is what you lost America. I hope the oil, at least, made it worthwhile."
- Iraqi blogger riverbendblog quoted in attytood -
 
    "Atop Iraq's al Basrah Oil Terminal, heavily armed anti-terrorism forces stand guard while the theft of the century may be occurring right under their noses. Tankers berthed at the sprawling platform, located off Iraq's southern coast in the Persian Gulf, take on the oil that is the lifeblood of Iraq's war-torn economy.
    "Millions of dollars' worth of oil is stolen daily in Iraq because of the absence of oil meters, a basic tool for preventing corruption, according to estimates by classified CIA and State Department reports, the Iraq Study Group Report , a former consultant to a U.S. oil company and a former State Department adviser to Iraq's Oil Ministry.
    "A six-month investigation by KTVT found the annual thefts run into the billions of dollars and help fuel insurgents, sectarian militias and corrupt officials as well as deprive the Iraqis of much-needed money to run their struggling government.
    "'I would say probably between 200,000 and 500,000 barrels a day is probably unaccounted for in Iraq,' says Mikel Morris, who worked for the State Department's Iraq Reconstruction Management Organization (IRMO) in Baghdad. Depending on fluctuations in the price of oil, the thefts could be worth $20 million to $30 million per day."
 
"Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory."
- Cervantes -
"This is National Velociraptor Awareness Month! The American Society for Velociraptor Attack Prevention, along with the North American Velociraptor Defense Association and the United Velociraptor Widows Fund, will be providing free velociraptor safety seminars at local Red Cross centers across the nation. Contact your local center for more information."
 
"If the day ever comes when there are no enemies left in the world, governments will invent them for us, so don't worry. Besides - who says we only spy on enemies? All history teaches us that today's allies are tomorrow's rivals. Fashion may dictate priorities, but foresight doesn't. For as long as rogues become leaders, we shall spy. For as long as there are bullies and liars and madmen in the world, we shall spy. For as long as nations compete, and politicians deceive, and tyrants launch conquests, and consumers need resources, and the homeless look for land, and the hungry for food, and the rich for excess, your chosen profession is perfectly secure, I can assure you."
- Smiley to his students in John LeCarré's The Secret Pilgrim -
 
    "Published in the winter 2007 volume of Journalism History, 'Depression, Drink and Dissipation' finds that almost half of the best people to ever push a noun against a verb in newsprint were debilitated by depression, serious anxiety, or bipolar disorder; over a third were titanic drunks, pill-poppers, or opium-addicts; nearly a third were serial philanderers, and a sizable bunch were misogynists, man-eaters, or violent bullies. In almost every case, the tendency to booze, carouse, or otherwise self-annihilate developed or seriously deepened during their days in journalism. All this is enough to make Underwood, who left a career covering politics for the Seattle Times to teach at the University of Washington, wonder whether 'these behaviors and the choice of journalism and writing as a career are perhaps not unrelated.' Well, yeah...
    "Psychologists have shown that neurotics can make good journalists when they project their inner doubts and dissatisfactions onto the world. This is the energy behind investigative reporting and the source of journalism's vaunted distrust of power, the argument goes. 'Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers,' Breslin says. 
    "For good or ill, journalism and neurosis may be inextricably caught up together, tangled in the timeless conundrum of what comes first. Does the profession break talented people with steady pressure, severe constraints, and public censure for missteps? Or does it attract broken talent who seek unstable schedules, extreme experiences, and the megalomaniacal pleasure of their name in print?"
 
    "Meanwhile, another GOP county election official is also under intensifying fire. Lisa Schwartze, executive director of the Hocking County BOE, has been charged with allowing an unmonitored manipulation of electronic memory drives before the 2004 recount could be completed. A memo purportedly written by Schwartze also directs poll workers to recount a precinct chosen deliberately by Schwartze, rather than at random, as the law demands. Two Cuyahoga County poll workers have been convicted of felonies for similar behavior, and have each been sentenced to 18 months in prison. 
    "Schwartze's offenses, however, may not stop there. According to sworn affidavits from Sherole Eaton, former Hocking County DOE assistant director, Schwartze publicly bragged of having held Republican Party fundraisers in her executive director's office, a clear illegality. Schwartze may also have organized the fundraisers while being paid by the county to do her allegedly non-partisan job as executive director. 
    "Schwartze may also have supervised the shredding of voter registration rolls leading up to the 2004 election. Eaton's under-oath testimony strongly indicates this destruction of vital public records may also have been illegal."
 
"When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."
- Jonathan Swift -
 
"Someone has to be the first drop of rain."
- Taslima Nasrin -
 
"He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery."
- Samuel Smiles -
 
"The end of my foot itched, but my bank account was still trying to crawl under a duck."
- Raymond Chandler: Farewell, My Lovely -




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  140. The California Choice
  141. Creation Science Fair Proves God Exists by Tom Norris
  142. What Would Jesus Do About Cramps? by Nancy Cain
  143. Summer Reading or Harry Potter vs. What's-His-Face
  144. Scumbags of the Week - Letter to the RIAA
  145. Hello Mullah, Hello Fatwah
  146. The Israeli Wall
  147. Dream Job or How Disinfotainment Today Almost Came Out in Print
  148. Celebrities vs. the United States Government
  149. Test of the National Homeland Reconciliation and Healing System
  150. The Still Missing Artifacts
  151. Why Bush is Nothing Like Hitler
  152. Tim Robbins' Speech to theNational Press Club
  153. Randy Newman's "Follow the Flag"
  154. How I would Re-Write the Bill of Rights by Satan
  155. I Didn't See the News Today, Oh Boy
  156. Global Voice by Jim Channon
  157. Daniel Ellsberg's Review of the Made-for-TV Movie The Pentagon Papers
  158. The Lemon Pledge of Allegiance
  159. U.S. Diplomat's Letter of Resignation
  160. Message from Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
  161. Obfuscation of the Week: Who grows the most opium? We do.
  162. Urgent Plea for Assistance from George W. Bush
  163. How I Got the Rights to Tom Robbins' Another Roadside Attraction
  164. Please Help the FBI Find These People
  165. The Adventures of Xarvon: Alien Investigator
  166. The Under-Reported Story of the Year - Margie Schoedinger vs. George W. Bush
  167. Why I'm Optimistic About the Future by Paul Krassner
  168. Booze (A movie I'd like to see)
  169. Hope (after the election)
  170. The Empty Boat by Chuang Tzu
  171. Special Halloween/Election Issue
  172. What's Wrong with Leonard Maltin?
  173. Forwarded E-mail from Satan
  174. A Letter from Tom Robbins
  175. Good Thing/Bad Thing - American Foreign Policy
  176. The Ultimate Politically Correct Flag and Pledge of Allegiance
  177. A Letter from Paul Krassner
  178. The History of Denials

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The Wrong Bus: A Novel by Michael Dare


     HARARE, Zimbabwe (04-04) After 20 mental patients disappeared from his bus, a driver replaced them with sane citizens and delivered them to a mental hospital.
    The unidentified bus driver was transporting 20 mental patients from the capital city of Harare to Bulawayo Mental Hospital when he decided to stop for a few drinks at an illegal roadside liquor store. Upon his return he was shocked to discovered that all the mental patients had escaped.
    Desperate for a solution, the driver stopped at the next bus stop and offered free bus rides to several people. He then delivered them to the mental hospital, informing the staff they were easily excitable.
    It took the medical personnel three days to uncover the foul play. The real mental patients are still at large.
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.
The Critics Agree
 
Looks like it might beREALLY GOOD
- Publisher’s Discount Outlet
 
Not quite asHILARIOUSas I thought it was going to be
- New York Times
 
Falls far short ofTHE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL
- Joyce Carol Oates
 
Tries very hard to beTHE 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 somethingINCREDIBLY GREATbut falls far short
- The Village Voice
 
The author obviously thinks he’s aGENIUS
- Psychiatry Today
 
If you want somethingENORMOUSLY ENTERTAININGlook elsewhere
- Books in Print
 
INSPIREDme 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

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Disinfotainment Today seems to be grossly disturbed and for good reason. Anyone who isn't disturbed by the current state of affairs is either rich, Republican, or brain-dead. If you're disturbed by the fact I grabbed one of these images from you, you can suck Archie's dick. I maintain my inalienable right to make fun of and borrow from whatever I damn well please. All art is montage that grabs bits and pieces of reality into the singular expression of the artist. In any case, its fair use, even if you're disturbed and think otherwise. Go ahead, sue me. All you'll get is bad publicity you probably deserve.

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