THE LEMON BASKET: THE BEST & WORST OF THE WEB
#394 DECEMBER 1ST, 2006
Copyright 2006 FRANCIS DIMENNO
http://www.dimenno.gather.com
http://www.dimenno.blog-city.com
dimenno@gmail.com
WAR
Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall
deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so,
whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose
-- and you allow him to make war at pleasure. If today, he should
choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada, to prevent the
British from invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him,
'I see no probability of the British invading us' but he will say to
you, 'Be silent; I see it, if you don't.'" - Abraham Lincoln
What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and
friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in
this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our
neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.
~Robert E. Lee, letter to his wife, 1864
Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every
man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be
proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole
earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship
consecrated to peace. ~Charles Sumner
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired
signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are
not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms
is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its
laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds
of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron. ~Dwight D.
Eisenhower, speech, American Society of Newspaper Editors, 16 April
1953
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
~John F. Kennedy, 1961
http://www.quotegarden.com/war.html
CHRONICLES OF ANYTOWN : 44
By Doree Lang, Town Historian, Anytown Historical
Society
The Mighty Wurlitzer Music Store
Mario Andrealphus is a brown-eyed, handsome man in his
late 20s, standing six feet tall, and with his
horn-rimmed glasses and starched white shirt and red
tie and his brown pin-striped business suit, you could
easily mistake him for a banker or a broker except for
one salient detail. His dark brown hair is
shoulder-length. "Goes with the territory," he
cheerfully admits. "When in Rome, do as the Romans
do." He is the proprietor of the Mighty Wurlitzer
Music Store, well-known among the musicians who play
the clubs in Jivetown as the place to go when, at 8:30
pm, you need a string for your guitar or a reed for
your saxophone. On most days it is open from noon to
ten pm. "Musicians tend to be night people," says
Andrealphus. "Their creativity peaks between 6 and
11pm. Some of my customers don't even wake UP until
noon." He laughs. "And some of them don't even go to
BED until noon!"
Mario knows whereof he speaks, for he is a fiddler of
no mean repute. "When you play in the symphony
orchestra, you're a violinist," he says, smiling.
"When you play in a C&W band, you're a fiddler. Just
like in the orchestra it's the double bass, and in C&W
it's the bull fiddle." Mario favors folk, Irish, and
country music, but has no particular animus against
blues, jazz, or rock. "I don't play it myself, " he
says, with a smile. "But I respect anybody who gets up
there night after night. It's all one," he says, with
a serious look. "In a way, the musician is a sort of
shaman. And each genre is simply a different tribe.
And at the end of the day, we're all in the same
business."
Andrealphus modestly admits he is a "generalist." He
is careful to note, "A lot of stores specialize in one
thing—guitars, say, or drums, or keyboards. We carry
every instrument you are likely to want, from harps to
triangles. We've got mando-cellos, English horns,
xylophones, and timpani. People think of trombones and
tubas as marginal instruments, but they're key
components of the symphony orchestra, so we got 'em.
But we also do quite a brisk trade in guitars. I've
become quite a hand at repairing string instruments. I
can also tune pianos. I'm blessed with what musicians
call 'perfect pitch'. I can't remember the last time
I've used a tuning fork. But here's a hint: the dial
tone of a telephone is in the key of A." He also does
a brisk business in instructional booklets. "There is
still a market out there for sheet music. Time was, it
was very large. Nowadays, it's a specialty market. We
have the music for a wide range of styles. Of course,
quite a few of our customers don't read music," he
says with a smile. "I have no opinion about that." He
laughs. "I can't afford to! Seriously, though, it is a
very convenient shorthand if you can read enough to be
able to make notations. It's either that, or carry a
tape recorder everywhere you go, in case inspiration
strikes." Which, incidentally, he does. "You can't
always be bothered to make notations when you're half
awake. Much better to hum into a microphone."
He counts among his best customers many members of the
Anytown Philharmonic, but also local musicians from
many genres: C&W bands like Uncle Red, The Squeaky
Hee-Haws and Big Twang & Ding; rock bands such as
Soviet Ingratitude, The Crew and Dogface Headcity;
jazz bands like The Bleeding Edge, The More Obsolete
and The Niche Famous; noted funk bands King Sugar and
Pimp Hand Strong; and ethnic bands such as Tiny Wee
Bastard, Sharp to the Bottom of the Glass, The
Brain-Damaged Loony Crims, and Lavarsi Na Petra De La
Scarpa.
I asked him about the name of the store. "Time back,
the previous owner had the franchise and used to sell
the Wurlitzer organ," he said, rubbing his nose.
"We've branched out since, but this place is a town
institution by now, so I've never bothered to change
the name. Musicians have enough to worry about!" he
chuckled.
I ask Mr. Andrealphus what advice he has for aspiring
musicians, and he grows serious. "Forget that nonsense
about 'not selling out'," he advises. "Just
concentrate on being the best you can be, and
opportunity will come a-knocking." He himself knows
whereof he speaks. When he was drafted in the 1960s,
he landed a position with the Army band and was never
called overseas. "For me, music was a Godsend, in more
ways than one," he asserts. "That's true for a lot of
us. The ancient Greeks thought that the universe was
composed of a sort of music, and as far as I can see,"
he grins, "that's not far wrong."
1*SALUTATION
BEATLES ON BITTORRENT
http://www.mininova.org/search/beatles+flac/seeds
BEATLEGS ON EZTORRENT
http://www.dimeadozen.org/
2*REFERENCE
IRAQ
In Video, Hussein Uses Slingshots and Bows to Rally Iraqis for War
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/24/world/middleeast/24saddam.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Death Toll Rises to More Than 200 in Iraq Attacks
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/24/AR2006112400203_pf.html
New savage twist to violence in Baghdad
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061124/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
Documents Reveal Secret Talks Between U.S. and Armed Iraqi Resistance
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-hayden/documents-reveal-secret-t_b_34834.html
U.S. Retreat from Iraq? The Secret Story
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-hayden/us-retreat-from-iraq-t_b_34675.html
Iraq Options - NRO
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-hayden/us-retreat-from-iraq-t_b_34675.html
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NzViY2U1OWQyMDBiYTQwYmJiZTIyZjQ5OWFhYjc5YTg=
US helicopter fires on Iraqi funeral
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/COL462533.htm
Shiites Burn 6 Sunni Worshippers Alive
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20061124/D8LJI8IG0.html
Iraq Civilian Death Toll Hits Record
http://www.abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2672485
Mosques torched after worst Iraq bombing
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=newsOne&storyID=2006-11-24T212538Z_01_COL153081_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ.xml&WTmodLoc=Home-C1-TopStories-newsOne-2
Shiites torch Sunni people, mosques, houses
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/11/24/iraq.main/index.html
JUAN COLE
http://www.juancole.com
3*HUMOR
TAKE MASTURBATION OUT OF THE DEVIL'S HAND
http://www.angelfire.com/on4/selfabuse/
4*NOVELTY
THE ASTOUNDING B MONSTER ARCHIVE
http://www.bmonster.com/indexa.html
5*AVATAR OF THE ZEITGEIST
QUOTES FROM THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/7027/quotes.html
6* DAILY UTILITY
MAMALUKE
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mamaluke
7*CARTOON
From: http://homepages.ius.edu/RVEST/
THE WACKY WORLD OF JACK CHICK
http://homepages.ius.edu/RVEST/JackChick.html
SOUL STORY
http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0069/0069_01.asp
8*PRESCRIPTION
SST DISCOGRAPHY
http://macdaraconroy.com/experiments/misc/sst_discog.txt
9* RUMOR PATROL
THE FUTURE FORETOLD
http://www.thefamily.org/endtime/
10*LAGNIAPPE
THE WILD ONE: HARDWIRING THE PROLES
http://www.filmsite.org/wild.html
11*DEVIATIONS FROM THE PREPARED TEXT: A REVIEW OF
OTHER MEDIA
DIRTY TRICKS IN AMERICAN POLITICS 1960-2004
OK. You didn't ask for it, but here it is: A short history of dirty
tricks and unexplained shifts in electoral calculus, just from memory:
1960: Among too many to list: Often overlooked is the West Virginia
Primary. FDR Jr. went down there to stump for the Kennedies and Joe
spread a lot of money around to ensure voters pulled the lever for
Jack rather than HHH.
1963: JFK assassination.
1964: LBJ's Daisy ad paints Goldwater as madman.
1968: Bobby Kennedy shot under very suspicious circumstances. Dems bug
Republican campaign plane. Reps quash LBJ's negotiated settlement with
Vietnam.
1972: Too many to list. The "Canuck" letter and Muskie's crying
incident may have been the most serious one. Wallace's shooting also
altered the elction calculus.
1976: Carter's Playboy interview nearly causes him to lose.
1980: Election results announced on television before the polls close
in California.
1984: Can't think of any offhand....
1988: Jackson passed Dukakis briefly in delegate count, but nowhere
was this reported....
Two words: Willie Horton.
1992: Perot enters race just to torpedo Bush. This dates back to the
early 70s when the Nixon admin stymied Perot's attempts to rescue
P.O.W.s and Perot felt Bush was in some ways responsible.
1994: Ideologues under Newt take over Republican Party.
1998: Millions wasted investigating Monicagate.
2000: Florida results seriously compromised.
2004: Ohio results seriously compromised.
302. CONTROVERSIES IN POPULAR CULTURE
WFTM4CB Theme ("We Fu*cked Their Moms for Chocolate Bars")
California was really ours.
We F*cked Their Moms for Chocolate Bars.
The south still worships stars and bars.
We F*cked Their Moms for Chocolate Bars.
Manila harbored Union tars.
We F*cked Their Moms for Chocolate Bars.
The French were beat and needed tanks
We F*cked their Moms for Chocolat Blanc.
Nazi rockets scraped the stars.
We F*cked Their Moms for Chocolate Bars.
Castro stole our fine cigars.
We F*cked Their Moms for Chocolate Bars.
The war was fought on the plain of Jars.
We F*cked Their Moms for Chocolate Bars
Gas and oil will run our cars.
We F*cked Their Moms for Chocolate Bars.
And if we ever go to Mars
We'll F*ck Their Moms for Chocolate Bars.
11A REVIEWS
THE ARISTOCRATS [FILM]: ****1/2
BASIN & RANGE. MCPHEE. ****
DECIMATION 1. ***
DECIMATION 2. ***
DECIMATION 3. ***1/2
DECIMATION 4. ***
DECIMATION 5. ***1/2
DENNIS THE MENACE 1953-4. ***1/2
THE DEVIL'S GUIDE TO HOLLYWOOD. ESZTERHAS. ***1/2
THE DREAM LIFE. HOBERMAN. ****1/2
EGO & HUBRIS. PEKAR. ***1/2
IS TINY DANCER REALLY ELTON'S LITTLE JOHN? EDWARDS. **1/2
LENNON REMEMEBRS. WENNER. ***1/2
MAKING COMICS. MCCLOUD. ****1/2
PEANUTS 1957-8. ****
PEANUTS 1959-60. ****
PEANUTS 1960-1. ****
A PORTABLE APOCALYPSE. APPEL. ***1/2
PUNISHER 3. ****
QUEEN AND COUNTRY 1. ****
QUEEN AND COUNTRY 2. ****
QUEEN AND COUNTRY 3. ****
QUEEN AND COUNTRY 5. ****
QUEEN AND COUNTRY 6. ****
QUEEN AND COUNTRY DECLASSIFIED: 2. ***1/2
QUEEN AND COUNTRY DECLASSIFIED: 3. ***
R. CRUMB'S HEROES OF BLUES, JAZZ & COUNTRY. ****
REDNECK WORDS OF WISDOM. MUEHLHAUSEN. ***1/2
THE REPUBLICAN PLAYBOOK. BOROWITZ. ***
REVEL WITH ACAUSE. KERCHER. ****
SALT. JURLANSKY. ****
SENSATIONAL SPIDER-MAN: FERAL. ***
SHOWCASE PRESENTS BATMAN 1. **1/2
SHOWCASE PRESENTS SUPERMAN 2. **1/2
THE SPICE BOX. TEMPLE. **
A TRIUMPH OF OVER 50 JOKES. **
ULTIMATE FF 6. ***
ULTIMATE MARVEL TEAM-UP. ***
ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN 15. ***1/2
WEBSTER. MRAZIK ET AL. ***1/2
12*APPROBATION AND OPPROBRIUM
1. Re: LB 393:
1 American = 1.2 Israelis, Canadians or Australians = 3 EU citizens
(pulled down by the east) = 100 South Americans, Russians, or Japanese =
783 Indians = 10,000 Africans, Arabs, or Chinese = all the North
Koreans. ---M.
2. Re: LB393,
Well, all I can say is that Mr. Christ certainly always has his
opinion about everything. A friend of mine was telling me that the
shamans of Central Asia have a convocation occasionally to visit the
Great Shaman--through their usual occult means. In any case, this
Great Shaman apparently wears a red suit with white fur trim and rides
in a sleigh pulled by reindeer.
It has often occurred to me that Santa Claus is very likely the real
deal and that Jesus is just a rather flimsy excuse to cover up the
proceedings. All connected with the Polar Myth--the legend that all
civilizations trace their roots to the lost polar civilization known
as Hyperborea....
Do you know what Pope Leo X said? "Quantum nobis prodest, haec fabula
Christi!": "How much we profit from this fable of Christ!"
#394 DECEMBER 1ST, 2006
Copyright 2006 FRANCIS DIMENNO
http://www.dimenno.gather.com
http://www.dimenno.blog-city.com
dimenno@gmail.com
WAR
Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall
deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so,
whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose
-- and you allow him to make war at pleasure. If today, he should
choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada, to prevent the
British from invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him,
'I see no probability of the British invading us' but he will say to
you, 'Be silent; I see it, if you don't.'" - Abraham Lincoln
What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and
friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in
this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our
neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.
~Robert E. Lee, letter to his wife, 1864
Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every
man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be
proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole
earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship
consecrated to peace. ~Charles Sumner
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired
signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are
not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms
is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its
laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds
of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron. ~Dwight D.
Eisenhower, speech, American Society of Newspaper Editors, 16 April
1953
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
~John F. Kennedy, 1961
http://www.quotegarden.com/war.html
CHRONICLES OF ANYTOWN : 44
By Doree Lang, Town Historian, Anytown Historical
Society
The Mighty Wurlitzer Music Store
Mario Andrealphus is a brown-eyed, handsome man in his
late 20s, standing six feet tall, and with his
horn-rimmed glasses and starched white shirt and red
tie and his brown pin-striped business suit, you could
easily mistake him for a banker or a broker except for
one salient detail. His dark brown hair is
shoulder-length. "Goes with the territory," he
cheerfully admits. "When in Rome, do as the Romans
do." He is the proprietor of the Mighty Wurlitzer
Music Store, well-known among the musicians who play
the clubs in Jivetown as the place to go when, at 8:30
pm, you need a string for your guitar or a reed for
your saxophone. On most days it is open from noon to
ten pm. "Musicians tend to be night people," says
Andrealphus. "Their creativity peaks between 6 and
11pm. Some of my customers don't even wake UP until
noon." He laughs. "And some of them don't even go to
BED until noon!"
Mario knows whereof he speaks, for he is a fiddler of
no mean repute. "When you play in the symphony
orchestra, you're a violinist," he says, smiling.
"When you play in a C&W band, you're a fiddler. Just
like in the orchestra it's the double bass, and in C&W
it's the bull fiddle." Mario favors folk, Irish, and
country music, but has no particular animus against
blues, jazz, or rock. "I don't play it myself, " he
says, with a smile. "But I respect anybody who gets up
there night after night. It's all one," he says, with
a serious look. "In a way, the musician is a sort of
shaman. And each genre is simply a different tribe.
And at the end of the day, we're all in the same
business."
Andrealphus modestly admits he is a "generalist." He
is careful to note, "A lot of stores specialize in one
thing—guitars, say, or drums, or keyboards. We carry
every instrument you are likely to want, from harps to
triangles. We've got mando-cellos, English horns,
xylophones, and timpani. People think of trombones and
tubas as marginal instruments, but they're key
components of the symphony orchestra, so we got 'em.
But we also do quite a brisk trade in guitars. I've
become quite a hand at repairing string instruments. I
can also tune pianos. I'm blessed with what musicians
call 'perfect pitch'. I can't remember the last time
I've used a tuning fork. But here's a hint: the dial
tone of a telephone is in the key of A." He also does
a brisk business in instructional booklets. "There is
still a market out there for sheet music. Time was, it
was very large. Nowadays, it's a specialty market. We
have the music for a wide range of styles. Of course,
quite a few of our customers don't read music," he
says with a smile. "I have no opinion about that." He
laughs. "I can't afford to! Seriously, though, it is a
very convenient shorthand if you can read enough to be
able to make notations. It's either that, or carry a
tape recorder everywhere you go, in case inspiration
strikes." Which, incidentally, he does. "You can't
always be bothered to make notations when you're half
awake. Much better to hum into a microphone."
He counts among his best customers many members of the
Anytown Philharmonic, but also local musicians from
many genres: C&W bands like Uncle Red, The Squeaky
Hee-Haws and Big Twang & Ding; rock bands such as
Soviet Ingratitude, The Crew and Dogface Headcity;
jazz bands like The Bleeding Edge, The More Obsolete
and The Niche Famous; noted funk bands King Sugar and
Pimp Hand Strong; and ethnic bands such as Tiny Wee
Bastard, Sharp to the Bottom of the Glass, The
Brain-Damaged Loony Crims, and Lavarsi Na Petra De La
Scarpa.
I asked him about the name of the store. "Time back,
the previous owner had the franchise and used to sell
the Wurlitzer organ," he said, rubbing his nose.
"We've branched out since, but this place is a town
institution by now, so I've never bothered to change
the name. Musicians have enough to worry about!" he
chuckled.
I ask Mr. Andrealphus what advice he has for aspiring
musicians, and he grows serious. "Forget that nonsense
about 'not selling out'," he advises. "Just
concentrate on being the best you can be, and
opportunity will come a-knocking." He himself knows
whereof he speaks. When he was drafted in the 1960s,
he landed a position with the Army band and was never
called overseas. "For me, music was a Godsend, in more
ways than one," he asserts. "That's true for a lot of
us. The ancient Greeks thought that the universe was
composed of a sort of music, and as far as I can see,"
he grins, "that's not far wrong."
1*SALUTATION
BEATLES ON BITTORRENT
http://www.mininova.org/search/beatles+flac/seeds
BEATLEGS ON EZTORRENT
http://www.dimeadozen.org/
2*REFERENCE
IRAQ
In Video, Hussein Uses Slingshots and Bows to Rally Iraqis for War
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/24/world/middleeast/24saddam.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Death Toll Rises to More Than 200 in Iraq Attacks
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/24/AR2006112400203_pf.html
New savage twist to violence in Baghdad
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061124/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
Documents Reveal Secret Talks Between U.S. and Armed Iraqi Resistance
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-hayden/documents-reveal-secret-t_b_34834.html
U.S. Retreat from Iraq? The Secret Story
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-hayden/us-retreat-from-iraq-t_b_34675.html
Iraq Options - NRO
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-hayden/us-retreat-from-iraq-t_b_34675.html
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NzViY2U1OWQyMDBiYTQwYmJiZTIyZjQ5OWFhYjc5YTg=
US helicopter fires on Iraqi funeral
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/COL462533.htm
Shiites Burn 6 Sunni Worshippers Alive
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20061124/D8LJI8IG0.html
Iraq Civilian Death Toll Hits Record
http://www.abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2672485
Mosques torched after worst Iraq bombing
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=newsOne&storyID=2006-11-24T212538Z_01_COL153081_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ.xml&WTmodLoc=Home-C1-TopStories-newsOne-2
Shiites torch Sunni people, mosques, houses
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/11/24/iraq.main/index.html
JUAN COLE
http://www.juancole.com
3*HUMOR
TAKE MASTURBATION OUT OF THE DEVIL'S HAND
http://www.angelfire.com/on4/selfabuse/
4*NOVELTY
THE ASTOUNDING B MONSTER ARCHIVE
http://www.bmonster.com/indexa.html
5*AVATAR OF THE ZEITGEIST
QUOTES FROM THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/7027/quotes.html
6* DAILY UTILITY
MAMALUKE
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mamaluke
7*CARTOON
From: http://homepages.ius.edu/RVEST/
THE WACKY WORLD OF JACK CHICK
http://homepages.ius.edu/RVEST/JackChick.html
SOUL STORY
http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0069/0069_01.asp
8*PRESCRIPTION
SST DISCOGRAPHY
http://macdaraconroy.com/experiments/misc/sst_discog.txt
9* RUMOR PATROL
THE FUTURE FORETOLD
http://www.thefamily.org/endtime/
10*LAGNIAPPE
THE WILD ONE: HARDWIRING THE PROLES
http://www.filmsite.org/wild.html
11*DEVIATIONS FROM THE PREPARED TEXT: A REVIEW OF
OTHER MEDIA
DIRTY TRICKS IN AMERICAN POLITICS 1960-2004
OK. You didn't ask for it, but here it is: A short history of dirty
tricks and unexplained shifts in electoral calculus, just from memory:
1960: Among too many to list: Often overlooked is the West Virginia
Primary. FDR Jr. went down there to stump for the Kennedies and Joe
spread a lot of money around to ensure voters pulled the lever for
Jack rather than HHH.
1963: JFK assassination.
1964: LBJ's Daisy ad paints Goldwater as madman.
1968: Bobby Kennedy shot under very suspicious circumstances. Dems bug
Republican campaign plane. Reps quash LBJ's negotiated settlement with
Vietnam.
1972: Too many to list. The "Canuck" letter and Muskie's crying
incident may have been the most serious one. Wallace's shooting also
altered the elction calculus.
1976: Carter's Playboy interview nearly causes him to lose.
1980: Election results announced on television before the polls close
in California.
1984: Can't think of any offhand....
1988: Jackson passed Dukakis briefly in delegate count, but nowhere
was this reported....
Two words: Willie Horton.
1992: Perot enters race just to torpedo Bush. This dates back to the
early 70s when the Nixon admin stymied Perot's attempts to rescue
P.O.W.s and Perot felt Bush was in some ways responsible.
1994: Ideologues under Newt take over Republican Party.
1998: Millions wasted investigating Monicagate.
2000: Florida results seriously compromised.
2004: Ohio results seriously compromised.
302. CONTROVERSIES IN POPULAR CULTURE
WFTM4CB Theme ("We Fu*cked Their Moms for Chocolate Bars")
California was really ours.
We F*cked Their Moms for Chocolate Bars.
The south still worships stars and bars.
We F*cked Their Moms for Chocolate Bars.
Manila harbored Union tars.
We F*cked Their Moms for Chocolate Bars.
The French were beat and needed tanks
We F*cked their Moms for Chocolat Blanc.
Nazi rockets scraped the stars.
We F*cked Their Moms for Chocolate Bars.
Castro stole our fine cigars.
We F*cked Their Moms for Chocolate Bars.
The war was fought on the plain of Jars.
We F*cked Their Moms for Chocolate Bars
Gas and oil will run our cars.
We F*cked Their Moms for Chocolate Bars.
And if we ever go to Mars
We'll F*ck Their Moms for Chocolate Bars.
11A REVIEWS
THE ARISTOCRATS [FILM]: ****1/2
BASIN & RANGE. MCPHEE. ****
DECIMATION 1. ***
DECIMATION 2. ***
DECIMATION 3. ***1/2
DECIMATION 4. ***
DECIMATION 5. ***1/2
DENNIS THE MENACE 1953-4. ***1/2
THE DEVIL'S GUIDE TO HOLLYWOOD. ESZTERHAS. ***1/2
THE DREAM LIFE. HOBERMAN. ****1/2
EGO & HUBRIS. PEKAR. ***1/2
IS TINY DANCER REALLY ELTON'S LITTLE JOHN? EDWARDS. **1/2
LENNON REMEMEBRS. WENNER. ***1/2
MAKING COMICS. MCCLOUD. ****1/2
PEANUTS 1957-8. ****
PEANUTS 1959-60. ****
PEANUTS 1960-1. ****
A PORTABLE APOCALYPSE. APPEL. ***1/2
PUNISHER 3. ****
QUEEN AND COUNTRY 1. ****
QUEEN AND COUNTRY 2. ****
QUEEN AND COUNTRY 3. ****
QUEEN AND COUNTRY 5. ****
QUEEN AND COUNTRY 6. ****
QUEEN AND COUNTRY DECLASSIFIED: 2. ***1/2
QUEEN AND COUNTRY DECLASSIFIED: 3. ***
R. CRUMB'S HEROES OF BLUES, JAZZ & COUNTRY. ****
REDNECK WORDS OF WISDOM. MUEHLHAUSEN. ***1/2
THE REPUBLICAN PLAYBOOK. BOROWITZ. ***
REVEL WITH ACAUSE. KERCHER. ****
SALT. JURLANSKY. ****
SENSATIONAL SPIDER-MAN: FERAL. ***
SHOWCASE PRESENTS BATMAN 1. **1/2
SHOWCASE PRESENTS SUPERMAN 2. **1/2
THE SPICE BOX. TEMPLE. **
A TRIUMPH OF OVER 50 JOKES. **
ULTIMATE FF 6. ***
ULTIMATE MARVEL TEAM-UP. ***
ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN 15. ***1/2
WEBSTER. MRAZIK ET AL. ***1/2
12*APPROBATION AND OPPROBRIUM
1. Re: LB 393:
1 American = 1.2 Israelis, Canadians or Australians = 3 EU citizens
(pulled down by the east) = 100 South Americans, Russians, or Japanese =
783 Indians = 10,000 Africans, Arabs, or Chinese = all the North
Koreans. ---M.
2. Re: LB393,
Well, all I can say is that Mr. Christ certainly always has his
opinion about everything. A friend of mine was telling me that the
shamans of Central Asia have a convocation occasionally to visit the
Great Shaman--through their usual occult means. In any case, this
Great Shaman apparently wears a red suit with white fur trim and rides
in a sleigh pulled by reindeer.
It has often occurred to me that Santa Claus is very likely the real
deal and that Jesus is just a rather flimsy excuse to cover up the
proceedings. All connected with the Polar Myth--the legend that all
civilizations trace their roots to the lost polar civilization known
as Hyperborea....
Do you know what Pope Leo X said? "Quantum nobis prodest, haec fabula
Christi!": "How much we profit from this fable of Christ!"
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