Flush Mama Down The Drain

So much for Civilization being marked by how we care for our dead.

Da President Commode

"We look back at the Roman epoch with a sense of relief. We've learned so much since then. No longer do we consider our leaders to be gods among men. No longer do we hand them unearned and meretricious awards and prizes. We don't turn on and destroy members of previous administrations. We don't tolerate incompetent and corrupt sycophants in high office. We've learned to recognize disorders such as pathological narcissism and assure that the victims do not gain high office. Any president who placed his prestige on the line with an athletic contest would be laughed to scorn.

And as for political bloodshed, that kind of savagery has no place in a modern democracy. Any party that called for the assassination of an opposing leader -- say, George W. Bush -- would simply be run out of the public sphere. Unlike the Romans, we all understand the concept of consequences, that what goes around comes around. Don't we?"

Wish these were just rhetorical questions.

Pig Slaughter in Cairo

Did someone already post this? If so, well, then here it is again. If not, then here it is.

Cramping the Uighur Lifestyle

What, they need Lebensraum?

D'Evolution of Da Swine

Paleontology on Planet Pepe is full of Gorean Truths

Sex and The NEP Succinctly Explained

Hey, if the New Economic Plan worked out so well for the Kulaks, imagine what it can do for us!

Hmmm, now how to get that critical 2$ ??

Getting a Lubbocktomy Ain't Reversable

Poor guy. Shoulda never crossed Judge Roy Bean

Hitchens on Hardball (10/24/08)

Hitchens continues to inject Classical Liberalism into today's GOP. In a different interview with Larry King, Hitchens took Palin to task for mocking genetic tests with fruit flies. While I watched it, I rooted on Hitchens while destroying fruit flies so annoyingly buzzing in front of me (I purged my apartment plants some time ago, but one or two fruit flies still linger).

Pepe does it again

Gorebal Warming Gets a Whiff of Swamp Gas

The American Eagle Dares Where Pepeans Fear to Tread

The sweet sounds of Justice

Inventors, artists, philosophers and writers come and go, but buzz is forever...

For too long I've put up with Ph.Ds within all realms of academia parroting one-another without having read the primary sources: this is called intellectual laziness, but also a byproduct of the hustle and bustle of our era. Only a couple here and there would say, "I don't know anything about that subject... I need to learn more." Another historian I studied under (he studied at the mighty U of Wisconsin, Madison) always repeated, "No matter what you hear mft, always revisit the sources yourself: they will not disappoint." This has proven the case time and time again.

Here's a neat little piece by David Brooks, about how those Pseudo-Intellectuals need to keep up with their game -- it's important for picking up chicks. Get more technology is the key.

...there have been three epochs of intellectual affectation. The first, lasting from approximately 1400 to 1965, was the great age of snobbery. Cultural artifacts existed in a hierarchy, with opera and fine art at the top, and stripping at the bottom. The social climbing pseud merely had to familiarize himself with the forms at the top of the hierarchy and febrile acolytes would perch at his feet...

This code died sometime in the late 1960s and was replaced by the code of the Higher Eclectica. The old hierarchy of the arts was dismissed as hopelessly reactionary. Instead, any cultural artifact produced by a member of a colonially oppressed out-group was deemed artistically and intellectually superior.

During this period, status rewards went to the ostentatious cultural omnivores — those who could publicly savor an infinite range of historically hegemonized cultural products. It was necessary to have a record collection that contained “a little bit of everything” (except heavy metal): bluegrass, rap, world music, salsa and Gregorian chant [not to mention Tuvan/Mongolian throat-singing]....

But on or about June 29, 2007, human character changed. That, of course, was the release date of the first iPhone.

On that date, media displaced culture. As commenters on The American Scene blog have pointed out, the means of transmission replaced the content of culture as the center of historical excitement and as the marker of social status.

No bambini

Stonewall Jackson Strikes One Last Time

Civil War buffs are a lot like Trekkies (Star Trek gurus): they can tell you how many musket balls were fired at a particular battle, or in the case of Trekkies speak Klingon. As for Civil War buffs, (and "history buffs" in general) they are particularly inept at how singular events reflect broader themes of the times.

At least I have one less to deal with now.

JJ, are you hearing voices?

Find the Missing Piece

Lapin Lovin'

It's a sick sick Zoosphere, there on Planet Pepe

Canadian Ped-agogy

Change: yes we can

Eat vegetables, don't drink arak