Archive for May, 2009

In Which I Reprise My Academy-Award-Winning Performance At The Onion

Published by alec on May 14, 2009 under Atlas Swallowed, Heidegger, Heinlein, Hitler: An Eternal Golden Shower, Kill Haji, The Day Ariel Sharon Was A Fruit & A Vegetable, Woo. Woo! Kegger!

Enraged Citizens Stage ‘Tea Party’ Protest Over Tax Increases For The People Who Take Four Fifths Of Their Money Plus Interest

This Is My Rifle, This Is My Gun; This Is For Fighting, This Is For Purely Vanilla Heterosexual And/Or Formally Covert Fun

Under Pressure From Former Vice President, Obama Reconsiders Stance On Own Citizenship

Hilarious Mishap Leads Florida Republican Big-Wigs To Attempt, Fail Recall Election For ‘Governor Jesse Jackson’

Why Should The Taxpayers Be Forced To Support Bad Business Decisions Which Don’t Endanger Their Retirement Savings?

America’s Heroic Businesses Help Millions ‘Go Galt’ In Spite Of Government Interference, Temporary Stipends

“Expert” Testimony From “FBI” On “Torture” Refuted By Special Episode Of 24

Cheney Acknowledges Grievous Error In Denouncing Robert Downey Junior Before Finishing ‘Tropic Thunder’

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Everybody Wang Chong Tonight

Published by alec on May 5, 2009 under Heidegger, Heinlein, Hitler: An Eternal Golden Shower, Keep The Clause, Kill Haji, Woo. Woo! Kegger!

I’ve got a bigger post on green culture on the way, but in the meanwhile (and because I’ve lost his name before) I’d like to direct your attention to Wang Chong, an obscure Taoist who - in addition to having a name which we must find hilarious - was not only one of the few Chinese philosophers to come from humble origins but also profoundly skeptical, coming to incorrect conclusions frequently but tearing the superstitions of his time a new asshole. From Wikipedia:

People say that spirits are the souls of dead men. That being the case, spirits should always appear naked, for surely it is not contended that clothes have souls as well as men.

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