Just the right
amount of Wrong:
John and Yoko may have said during
their bed-in that war would
end if everyone found a mate and spent a week in bed. An alternative view in Ukraine this week: Raw Story reports
that a group of
Ukrainian women have called for a sexual embargo, no sex for Russian men. Using
the slogan, “Don’t give it to a Russian”, the vagina-Ukrainians will deny the
penis-Ukrainians of Russian descent, access to the wild thing. Western
government political and economic sanctions did not dissuade Russia from
annexing Crimea, so some Ukranian women will try withholding sex.
Use this quote from Charles
Bukowski on the dignity of work as an inspiration for your homily:
“How in the hell could
a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 am by an alarm clock, leap out of bed,
dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get
to a place where essentially you made
lots of money for somebody else, and were asked to be grateful for
the opportunity to do so?”
Here is the Downton Abbey version
of our future:
Hobby Lobby’s argument at the Supreme Court:
Every employer should get to design employee health care coverage based on religious conviction. For instance, if a firm doesn’t believe in vaccines or blood transfusions, their insurance company can drop those provisions. If a company doesn’t believe in science, it’s not really a stretch to claim they don’t believe in doctors or medicine or hospitals. If their workers get sick they’ll just pray for them. Heck! Maybe they can drop health insurance entirely! Thank you, Hobby Lobby!
How the Right plays the counter-factual-to-science argument:
Christie CYA: are facts involved?
Christie sets up his own independent investigation into “Bridgegate”. The fluff piece by Christie lawyers and pals theorizes that the GWB was shut down for four days because Deputy Chief of Staff Bridget Kelly had an affair with, and was subsequently dumped by, former campaign manager Bill Stepian. So, Christie’s team tells us it’s really “Bridget-gate”. Why would her reaction to being dumped be: “gonna close the GW Bridge”?
Another attempted counter-factual this week:
Where the others are purely fiction, the Christie one is simply true. That is exactly how his charade would be described.