Bobert has inspired the movement’s new slogan – IT’S THE HANDJOBBERY, STUPID! – which has begun appearing on t shirts and bumper stickers as the pronatalists seek to draw Americans’ attention to quick and easy steps toward insemination.
Our country is at a crossroads. What we saw today has never happened before, and I think for the majority of Americans, it raises questions about whether our legal system can be trusted. Pray for our nation, for God‘s guiding hand that this republic will be one nation under God.
FRANKLIN GRAHAM
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Please pray that God restores our right to pay off porn stars to hush them up and to create fake records to cover up the payoff.
Far right Christian fanatic Dinesh D’Souza made a whole film that followed evil ballot-stuffers around the country as they stole the election from Jesus H. Trump.
Now that its claims turn out to be bullshit, D’Souza can’t be found, even by the New York Times.
His producer, under humongously expensive legal pressure from defamed non-stuffers, has issued a desperate apology, but D’Souza – an avid and lunatic conspiracy theorist – stands his ground.
The defamation cases won’t yield the way-whopping settlement Dominion Voting Systems got ($787 mill), but I’m sure they’ll do well.
So – Alan Dershowitz, Harvard’s most embarrassing emeritus, would not be booed. He would be laughed at. Not just for his take on Trump; for a complaint about other people not caring about justice coming from the most cynical, mercenary lawyer this side of Saul Goodman.
While listening to him, both male and female students would also be cupping their genitals protectively, because Dershowitz is a ginormousgenital mutilation enthusiast.
But if we can read modernity’s soul at all, surely it is through the stigmata of the moment: proliferating tattoos. Tattoos are everywhere on the bodies of Americans; all of us know someone who keeps imprinting and imprinting his flesh in an endless gesture of self-expression.
Flannery O’Connor’s 1965 short story, “Parker’s Back,” describes an obsessive body-imprinter:
[Parker’s] dissatisfaction [was] acute, and raged in him. It was as if the panther and the lion and the serpents and the eagles and the hawks [on his skin] had penetrated his skin and lived inside him in a raging warfare … Whenever Parker couldn’t stand the way he felt, he would have another tattoo… With the aid of mirrors [an] artist had tattooed on the top of his head a miniature owl.
Parker’s pièce de résistance is a huge image, on his back, of the “haloed head of a flat stern Byzantine Christ with all-demanding eyes.”
O’Connor’s observation that Parker’s tattoos seemed to have “penetrated his skin and lived inside him” prefigures, in an intriguing way, the recent much-discussed scientific study which finds that tattoos are “associated with an increased risk of malignant lymphoma.”
This conclusion, which surprised UD not at all (“[W]hen the tattoo ink is injected into the skin, the body interprets this as something foreign that should not be there and the immune system is activated. A large part of the ink is transported away from the skin, to the lymph nodes where it is deposited.”), has upset and shocked people; and indeed when close to 35% of your population has tattoos, you can expect this result.
But of course tattoos have long been known to predispose people toward infections, allergies, MRI problems, etc. The study’s authors next intend to examine links between tattoos and “other forms of cancer and inflammatory diseases.”
Many people covered with this deeply penetrative ink seem unconcerned, and that is possibly because the dark business of engaging in activities you know to be harmful (see also vaping) is your self-expression. That is your far and soulful country — the vampire God you bear on your back.
The headline combines the one in the Daily Mail with the one in Radar. Radar made a point of mentioning the price tag of the place the player filled with gas.
Dedicated readers know the DeLillo headline (examples here) must include at least three wealth-markers — here, PGA,Land Rover,$800,000 house.
… during their visit yesterday to the Philadelphia Museum. With its dark lighting and massive interior columns, the building seemed to UD pretty oppressive.
And as for the Cassatt exhibit: The commentary kept telling us her mother/baby stuff is not not not sentimental.
O my brave brown companions, when your souls Flock silently away, and the eyeless dead Shame the wild beast of battle on the ridge, Death will stand grieving in that field of war Since your unvanquished hardihood is spent. And through some mooned Valhalla there will pass Battalions and battalions, scarred from hell; The unreturning army that was youth; The legions who have suffered and are dust.