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Monthly Archive December, 2006

Here’s the (Corrupt, War Mongering, Lying) Zeitgeist: Word of the Year

Merriam-Webster’s #1 Word of the Year …
1. truthiness (noun)

1 : “truth that comes from the gut, not books” (Stephen Colbert, Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report,” October 2005)
2 : “the quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true, rather than concepts or facts known to be true”
(American Dialect Society, January 2006)

2. google
3. decider
4. [...]

The Christian Book, the Jewish Book: Louis Black

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jCCam6l9GY

Since we don’t have Lenny Bruce or Richard Pryor to explain the Christian use of the Bible, we have to rely on Louis Black. Good enough. It’s a little long, I know, but it’s worth it. “If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago,” Lenny Bruce once said, “Catholic school children would be wearing little [...]

A Very John Lennon Holiday

And so this is Christmas
I hope you have fun
The near and the dear one
The old and the young
A very merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let’s hope it’s a good one
Without any fear
War is over
If you want it
War is over
Now…
John Lennon, Shaved Fish, 1971
Since it’s the holiday season, it must be time to release some important [...]