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Scrooge Reconsidered
by Maynard on December 23, 2010Maynard contemplates whether Ebenezer Scrooge got a bad rap ‘Tis the season in which all good Americans are required by custom and law to view at least one dramatic presentation of Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”. And I enjoy discovering new interpretations (this year I saw the 1984 version with George C. Scott). But, as time passes, I find myself becoming more and more sympathetic to the unreformed Mr. Scrooge. Consider how Scrooge exemplifies all that is good and admirable: Scrooge the Tolerant and Scrooge the Diverse: Scrooge faces coercive pressure to fall into line and celebrate like everyone else. Scrooge alone is tolerant of diversity. “You keep Christmas in your way. And I’ll keep it in mine.” What reasonable person...
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Invasive Vacations
by Maynard on December 1, 2010Questionable observations by Maynard I had a sense of déjà vu as I perused the reports of government assaults becoming SOP for vacation travels. Where have we heard this before? And then I remembered! Disney characters! A few years ago, Tigger was accused of fondling a young lady. He was subsequently acquitted of any criminal wrongdoing. (Videos of the incident, which I recall seeing (linked by Drudge at the time!), seem to have been excised from the Internet. Such is the power of The Mouse™) This article notes that the same Tigger, transposed to a Goofy suit, was subsequently accused of “shoving” (is that what they call it?) a female photographer in the chest. It also reports that Winnie the...
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About That Presidential Seal…
by Maynard on November 10, 2010Maynard couldn’t resist posting this bit of interpretive nonsense from those wonderful people at RightChange. If it didn’t happen precisely as depicted…well, it should have!
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Goodman Goes Playboy
by Maynard on October 11, 2010A sleazy, rambling post by Maynard about the degradation of American culture; which nevertheless clings to a lifeline of humor Okay, today I’m posting sleaze. This isn’t the same as trash, or at least that’s my opinion. But I’m somewhere in the borderland between PG-13 and R. If this concerns you, then read no further.
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Same As It Ever Was?
by Maynard on July 6, 2010A post by Maynard It gets crazier with each passing day. Today we learned that Obama has proclaimed NASA’s new foremost task is to reach out to the Muslim world and make the Muslim people feel good about their historic contribution to science. As far as actual space flight goes, it seems NASA won’t go into space anymore beyond low Earth orbit, although it may form partnerships with other nations for this purpose. Meanwhile, on the home front, Obama allies himself with foreign invaders and declares war on Arizona. Reading from his teleprompter, he declared the marauders who murdered Arizona rancher Robert Krentz to be the kind of immigrants that made America great, very much like (Obama’s examples) Albert Einstein...
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Barack’s Bullsh** Bingo!
by Maynard on May 29, 2010A post by Maynard Now that Barry has decided to address the growing chaos by gracing us with his presence, Tammy must anguish over how much Obama audio TAMs need. Presidential words are, after all, news. My suggestion: Prior to carrying a speech, doubtful TAMs will be issued a handy Bullsh** Bingo card. Then hang out in the chat room and play along. There will be a prize of some sort (I don’t know what; maybe a pair of earplugs?) for the first person to shout “BINGO!” Obviously the cards will have to be officially certified and randomized. But here’s a prototype, which seems to have originated from IOWNTHEWORLD or BigFurHat. As you can see, someone’s bound to reach the...
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Aliens Hijack Voyager 2
by Maynard on May 14, 2010A post by Maynard Space aliens, sensing Obama’s weakness, have hijacked the Voyager 2 spacecraft. Voyager 2 was launched in 1977. It went on an amazing grand tour of the outer planets, visiting Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. It is currently 92 times as far away from the Sun as the Earth is, and more than twice as far from the Sun as Pluto. It’s drifting endlessly outwards, carrying a multicultural golden record that the space aliens will need an old record player to listen to. NASA continues to maintain radio contact with the two Voyager craft. Take a moment to think about the difficulty of transmitting and receiving from a tiny object more than 8 billion miles away. It’s...
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How To Be Healthy, Happy, and Have Any Woman You Want
by Maynard on May 9, 2010An eclectic post by Maynard This is Maynard writing, who is of the opinion that we ought not focus entirely on the antics of our un-esteemed political leaders. Sure, those jackasses are busily arguing amongst themselves whether they prefer to bankrupt us before they get us blown up, or the other way around. But until they succeed in their lunatic plans, we must survive and prosper. Hence this post of useful information.
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Weird Amazon
by Maynard on April 1, 2010An April 1 post by Maynard In the remote regions of the Amazon, there are weird little goodies to be found. And there’s a coterie of weird little people that glom onto the weird little goodies for the purpose of writing weird little reviews. Those of you that are connoisseurs of the outré may find a moment’s respite from your private hells in perusing a few salient selections. You might be surprised to see how popular Tuscan Whole Milk is, with a whopping list of 1192 reviews and counting, plus plenty of customer images. In anticipation of Easter, the Fresh Whole Rabbit is not to be missed. (See reviews and customer images.) (On the subject of the holiday, if you...
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Census Coming!
by Maynard on March 13, 2010A post by Maynard A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.—Mahatma Gandhi I got the mailer from the government reminding me the census form is coming. You’ve heard the various gripes about the racial questions. But if you’re concerned about government prying into your private life (e.g., how do you get to work? how many toilets do you have?), you’ll be happy to know the Democrats blocked a proposed change to inquire whether you’re an American citizen. Thus, with the tabulated census data being used to allocate Congressional districts, we can look forward to overrepresentation by “sanctuary” districts, and underrepresentation by districts that respect the law. Therefore,...
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What About Radical Christians?
by Maynard on December 28, 2009A post by Maynard Did you know that before the radical Muslim underwear bomber, there was a radical Christian underwear bomber? It was all laid out in Rosie O’Connell’s 2008 documentary. Here’s the clip of Bill O’Reilly interviewing Rosie and award-winning documentarian Michael Malone. (Here’s a link to a clearer version of the video; the embedded clip above has a touch of censorship to make it slightly more tasteful.) For more of the same, buy or rent this.
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Health Care in Cuba
by Maynard on November 22, 2009A post by Maynard For the sake of balance, here’s a brief excerpt from Michael Moore’s “Sicko” movie.
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Swine Flu Keeps Pilgrims Away From Mecca
by Pat_S on November 7, 2009A post by Pat The cosmic sense of humor can be so delightful. Health officials want to cancel hajj for Iranians due to swine flu The Health Ministry and the Majlis Health Committee are seriously opposed to allowing Iranians to go on hajj this year due to the swine flu epidemic, MP Mohammad-Reza Rezaii-Kouchi said on Saturday. Elsewhere in his remarks, Rezaii-Kouchi criticized the Health Ministry for reporting imprecise statistics, saying the health minister had said 50 percent of the people who go on hajj would become infected with the swine flu virus while the deputy health minister said 80 percent would become infected.
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Is Your Toaster Racist?
by Tammy on September 16, 2009That’s what the People’s Cube wonders, as should the rest of us. It will never end until we plumb out all racism from every object, animate or not. Just like Newsweek. Exactly. What? Is Your Toaster Racist? Newsweek Provides Answers Just as the progressive community was scraping the bottom of the barrel to rationalize America’s rejection of Obama’s socialist policies and to provide plausible but untrue reasons for the 9-12 Tea Party in Washington, DC, Newsweek boosted their efforts with an effective subliminal image on this week’s cover, leaving no doubt that the debate is all about race. A picture of a white baby with large black letters over its face “Is your baby racist?” is a brave new take...
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Dizzy Doctors Redux
by Maynard on September 8, 2009A post by Maynard, in anticipation of Obama’s upcoming address I’m going to go out on a limb and assume Mr. Obama will harp on the shortcomings of evil insurers in order to push for his intrusive, bureaucratic, life-threatening, budget-busting, divisive, wasteful, unpopular “public option”. However, he won’t consider curbing tort abuse or benefits for non-citizens. Action on those last points, although it would be applauded by a supermajority of Americans of all political affiliations, would require an unthinkable challenge to the powerful special interests that feed at the public trough. (Trial lawyers donate big bucks (mostly to Democrats), and represent the biggest (and, IMO, the most parasitical) of the big interests.) Okay, I can’t be serious anymore, so let’s...