More American Contributions to World Civilisation
Political contests between jocks and nerds
Great defenders of true learning like Allen Bloom, Dinesh D’Souza, and David Horowitz
Great moral exemplars like Bill Bennett, Cardinal Mahony, and Jim Bakker
“Values” education
Superman
Plastic
Colleges as commercial sports centers
Boston baked beans (actually these may refer to the original English Boston)
Waldo Emerson
Kennedys, Rockefellers, and Bushes
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
News readers as “news anchors” and millionaire celebrities
Decaffeinated coffee and sugarless sweets
Chester A. Arthur
Bob Dole
Nonbooks, along with nonbook libraries and nonbook bookstores
Jack Kemp and his "good friend and teammate" O.J. Simpson
The Southern Poverty Law Center
Barney Frank
Hugh Hefner
Same sex weddings?
SPAM (both kinds?)
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I'd take Arthur over most of the presidents we've had since him.
And I'd take Superman over the dark comic book heroes now who try so hard to reflect on modern American society.
And let's not forget Cardinal Roger Mahony's new cathedral, the Raj Mahal. Mahony couldn't find an American who could perpetrate such a high degree of ugliness, so he imported a Spaniard, José Rafael Moneo. But the final joke is on Protestants, because Moneo is now a professor at that Puritan finishing school called Harvard University.
"Nonbooks, along with nonbook libraries and nonbook bookstores"
Don't forget nonreaders. Those who consume nonbooks are just that, consumers, not readers.
Sensitivity training!
"What some refer to as a "vocations crisis" is, rather, one of the many fruits of the Second Vatican Council. It is a sign of God's deep love for the Church, and an invitation to a more creative and effective ordering of gifts and energy in the Body of Christ. This is a time of great challenge and opportunity in the Church, not least of all because the gifts of the lay faithful have been flourishing in unprecedented numbers and in unforeseen ways."
Roger Mahoney in his pastoral letter," As I Have Done to You."
Does anyone know for sure if it was the "Raj Mahal" or the scandal settlements that cost Catholics in Los Angeles the most cash? One would think he would be living in a hut by now but I guess if your task in life is to lead the priests that he has recruited and formed, one could see the "vocations crises" as a sign of God's love for His Church. Other than that, I have absolutely no idea what he means by equating a lack of healthy vocations to "a sign of God's deep love for His Church."
Come now Dr Wilson, comic books were a pretty harmless form of amusement for your generation.
"Great moral exemplars like Bill Bennett, Cardinal Mahony, and Jim Bakker"
I admit the prospect of Mahony being elected Pope is a frightening thought. Paul VII perhaps?
* Activist judges
* Playboy magazine
* State Department employees who speak only poor English.
* Lukewarm megachurches and the tepid parishioners who hide there
* Sarah Weddington
* light beer
Rick @ 4,
Actually sensitivity training is nothing new. The early Soviets called it soyma critka and practiced it widely in the 1930's. The N.K.V.D. have already written numerous manuals Homeland Security may employ.
You're spot on about nonbooks, Dr Wilson. Walking into a library or into Books-A-Million is like walking into an intellectual vacuum. After entering the local B-A-M last year while killing time, I discovered that the only worthwhile books, aside from the KJV, and quite surprisingly, a couple pro-South books about the war (probably sold as curiosities), were a collection of 'classic literature consisting of 19th century novels ans a few ancient works, all by one publisher and arranged in a shelf-area about three or four feet wide. That was all there was, in a huge ocean of wasted paper.
I have finally decided that book burning is actually not a bad thing at all, as long as you dont burnt he wrong ones.
Sugarless sweets, like Sweet'n Low, are a godsend for diabetics. And what's wrong with spam (the kind you eat)?
Why is David Horowitz on his list?
Charlemagne @8 Thank you for the information,one truly learns something new each day. By the way have you ever had to sit through a sensitivity training class?
@11 Arius
He needs to be on this list. I rememeber his days as a pinko if not die-hard red. Suddenly he's a "spokesman" for the right, and making boodle on the lecture circuit.
@12 Rick.
@11 Arius
He needs to be on this list. I rememeber his days as a pinko if not die-hard red. Suddenly he's a "spokesman" for the right, and making boodle on the lecture circuit.
@12 Rick
Not sensitivity training, but a judge sentenced me to anger management classes. I'd imagine they're just as bad.
Rick @ 12,
Not the Homeland Security, CHEKA version, but I did sit through a John Hagee sermon once. Does that count?
Horowitz is the consumate neocon. Supposedly he came to see the light and switched his political leanings 180 degrees, but neocons are neo Trotskyites, meaning he really never ran too far from his radical leftist roots. He loves big govt as long as the GOP is in power. Not like the GOP's results are any different than that of the Dems. He must be laughing his ass off how he was all of these supposed conservatives fooled.
Separation of Church and State has been a really vital contribution to the development of human civilization. Yes, leaving God out of His creation, particularly civil affairs, was a really bright idea.
Horowitz is reprehensible, but I was referring specifically to his pose as a defender of academic freedom.
Now that Jack Kemp has died, it should be remembered that although he had wrong views on deficits and immigration and (as noted above) bad judgment as to the moral character of ex-teammates, he wrote a fine column several months before the invasion of Iraq that was very prescient. Perhaps he and Chronicles were not so far apart after all.
The link for the column is here. I did not include it above in case it got the comment marked as spam.
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/kemp103002.asp
Endzone celebrations, the thirty pack, bk burger bites, octomom, nancy grace, hot pockets.
The frontal lobotomy.
Television. (But I repeat myself!)
The "Church" of Scientology.
Richard Hofstadter.
Douglas Hofstadter.
Propane, considered as an acceptable substitute for charcoal.
In a column on the death of Jack Kemp, Paul Craig Roberts called Kemp an "American Hero."