Postmodern Angst

Just when you thought, sighing over pictures of overweight corn-fed buffoons carrying signs that depict the President in a Hitler moustache, that America couldn’t descend any further, an Alabama teacher has used the theoretical assassination of President Obama to illustrate a geometry lesson. Reader responses to online postings of the news exhibit the expected reaction: [...]

I love this woman. She IS America. Corrupt, corpulent, lazy, dishonest, anti-intellectual, defensive, given to simplistic knee-jerk responses, inordinately blameful, devoid of accountability or responsibility, lacking in philosophical depth, empty on empathy, self-centered, delusional, and destructively selfish. If she runs for President in 2012, I… Read more will vote for her on these grounds alone: [...]

No doubt about it, electing the first black man as President of the United States is a historic occasion. Symbolically, it represents the attainment of full citizen status by a former slave-race. Directly, it suggests that American racism is either dying or simply too weak to affect matters of such importance. But we all know [...]

Whassup indeed. (For those who have forgotten history, the original commercial, a beer-selling thing which drove us all to the brink of insanity many years ago, may be viewed here.)

John Birch is not dead. John Birch is not dead. His body is no longer cold and stiff. They’ve injected the decrepit flesh with Herbert West’s reagent, blasted a billion volts of electricity through the bones, and now John Birch walks among us, not quite living but not quite dead, harboring a dark spirit which [...]