"Good vs. Evil"
NPR: Your Pocket Guide To Speaking Palinguage Vol. 1
Monday, September 8th, 2008NPR: Your Pocket Guide To Speaking Palinguage Vol. 1
A great dissection of some of the rhetorical strategies used to recast otherwise dirty and not-so-little secrets of the Right’s unruly cast of characters into statesmen and stateswomen.
Here, rape my daughters: Quaint scenes of family values from the Judeo-Christian tradition
Saturday, August 9th, 2008Sometimes we’re reminded that Christianity had issues long before medieval adventure-hungry young men were offered a trip to the Near East to get off on killing heretics or anyone else who looked rather swarthy; before various Inquisition purges and the campaign against, well, women, basically; before proto-capitalists used Jesus to beat as much labor out [...]
Homoerotic or not? You decide.
Thursday, July 24th, 2008Terrorists bump fists, but Americans bump chests? Seriously, this looks indecent. We love it when the military shows its man-love roots.
Photo courtesy of AP, and thank God for the UK’s Daily Mail.
Just for fun: Benny Hinn
Monday, October 22nd, 2007Not that there’s ever really a better or worse reason to mess with Benny Hinn, but the above video has the best soundtrack ever to pair with Hinn footage. Laffs!
Has Lou Dobbs always been this obnoxious?
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007Because I thought his job was to read off a teleprompter, not to bomb the American public with willful misunderstanding. It appears that Dobbs takes exception to others’ taking exception to the contortion of patriotism for purposes of making Blackwater richer. See the asinine, Limbaugh-esque logic here, brought to you, oh so surprisingly, by CNN. [...]
Books on our list: Faludi’s Terror Dream
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007Oh boy. Our girl Susan (of Backlash fame) is out with The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America and we’re going to add it to the American Heresy library ASAP.
From Yahoo’s review:
By retreating to a comfortable myth, she asserts, the nation essentially closed its eyes.
Here’s hoping she takes a stab at why we [...]
A gay bomb: seriously?
Friday, June 15th, 2007Or, how the US military is going to put The Onion out of business:
The Berkeley, CA organization “Sunshine Project” got its hands on a proposal to develop a hormone bomb whose stated purpose was to turn enemy soldiers mad gay for each other. No, really.