A post by Maynard
I’m sure some of you know of the comedy duo of Penn & Teller (here’s their web site and Wikipedia listing). These guys are a pair of iconoclastic troublemakers who will alternately amuse and enlighten and challenge and annoy and offend. I wouldn’t say I exactly like them, but they compel us to address the underpinnings of our various faiths and dogmas, crossing the entire political and social and religious spectrums. It’s a dirty job, but I’m glad to see somebody doing it in a take-no-prisoners approach.
Here’s a clip from their ongoing Bulsh** documentary, which airs on the Showtime network. The boys have invaded an ecologically-oriented conference, and we see their agent making an impassioned and completely factual plea to ban the dangerous chemical, dihydrogen monoxide (which is better known to you and me as “water”). See how willing everyone is to get behind the bandwagon. It’s funny and disturbing, when you consider that this is mentality that drives the political movements that set the course of the nation.
This is funny. All the more so because a high school student pulled this stunt as a research paper about 15 years ago. Posted here – http://tinyurl.com/2nvkue
And here’s a post taken from National Review several years back, about the dangers of bread and how it would be treated if the gun control nuts were in charge: http://tinyurl.com/2r9ynq
You can’t use words of more than one syllable and expect Liberals to know what you are talking about. You can use words of more than one syllable that sound like something they heard in government school and get Liberals fo fall all over themselves doing anything you want them to, even though they have no idea what the program is.
I actually think that is a good Idea ,It should be banned !
In all bars !
It is absolutly amazing what people will buy into. I read the bread thingy from the first post and simply had to chuckle, but just for a second or two. This is where we are headed, someting TB pointed out in her books, and what thinking human beings have been saying for years. How do we get the non-thinkers to listen?
Tammy:
If they ban Dihydrogen Monoxide, I am going to need your recipe for apple martinies.