My Favorite South Park Skit
Humor often involves stark juxtaposition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga38oaFfeG8&feature=youtu.be
The juxtaposition between the song's title and the song itself kills me.
More issues
Miscellany
England after 1688 and bears in the gay community
Rise of the Moneyed
I'm enjoying volume 4 of Peter Ackroyd's history of England: Revolution: The
History of England from the Battle of the Boyne to the Battle of Waterloo
[https://amzn.to/2GJFCCi].
I wanted to
The Ever-Elusive Economic "Third Way"
Man, great weather heading our way.
And I just got a big pile of wood chips dumped in my driveway.
Wood chips might be the magic bullet for the garden. They look nice, they
suppress grass and weeds, they help plants retain moisture and block out
freezing cold, they provide
Proto-Kerouac
D.H. Lawrence, writing in the early 1920s, about the poetry of Walt Whitman (1819-1892).
“The Open Road. The great home of the Soul is the open road. Not heaven, not paradise. Not 'above'. Not even 'within'. The soul is neither 'above' nor '
Pray for the Sick
> During the past twenty-five years, study after study has shown that seriously
ill patients who are prayed for”“including those who don't know about these
prayers”“fare better than those who are not prayed for. The man who has done the
most to integrate the results of
Hardy Hated GKC
For those who like to say that Chesterton never made an enemy, there is the fact of Thomas Hardy's very last literary work. In the final days before his death in 1928, Hardy dictated what biographer Robert Gittings describes as "two virulent, inept, and unworthy satirical jingles&
Heartwarming Football Story Featuring Al Davis
> Davis, as commissioner of the AFL, hired ex-Buffalo Evening News sportswriter
Jack Horrigan as his PR man. When Horrigan was diagnosed with leukemia, writes
Felser, “Davis, a Jew, bought a votive candle in a Catholic religious supply
store. Back in his office, he lit the candle as a devotion,
Max Beerbohm
Max Beerbohm's older brother, Herbert, was a funny guy. Once, when a man walked past him groaning under a grandfather clock he was carting on his back, Herbert said, "My good fellow, why not carry a watch?" (Joseph Epstein, Partial Payments).
The Two Political Parties Born in the Same Womb?
> Two main kinds of people fled Europe to live in North America in the sixteenth,
seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries: individualists who sought freedom from
the political interference they were accustomed to dealing with in Europe; and
religious zealots who sought to create and maintain a puritan theocracy on these
Bernays: Propaganda King
Tom Woods recently hosted Mark Crispin Miller, a NYU professor and expert on propaganda. He says the whole COVID campaign hits a lot of the basic traits of propaganda: stifling dissenting opinions, ignoring inconvenient facts.
The whole thing reminded me of the Father of Public Relations, Edward Bernays. He wasn&