I'd been saying "and that's a good thing" as kind of my standard way of designating an endpoint to my line of thought for years, and then someone folowed up with a remark about Martha Stewart saying that, so I looked it up on the intertubes.
Damn!
And many moons ago I had a spiky punk haircut and some little kid told me he liked it, just like Rod Stewart.
It was written for her. probably by the same writers who write most of the cultural rot for the main networks. I imagine these writers molest young boys in their hollywood hot tubs and then pay them off to stay quiet.
This morning, on The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins started talking about how it's evolutionarily adaptive for children to believe and internalize the things they are told, especially things told by adult authority figures, especially their parents.
Kids who learned well from listening tended to survive better than those who faced danger on a more trial-and-error basis. That's where religious indoctrination comes in, as a side-effect, if you will. The statistics are astonishing how few children mature to deviate from their early religious training.
I had to stop the CD player right there. I'm, like, woah! I need to let this soak in for a while.
And I'm reminded of the Star Trek TOS episode Dagger of the Mind. That's the one where the interplanetary psychiatric hospital has the chair thing that can erase a person's mind and the person at the controls can implant whatever they want, for good or for evil, with a capital "E."
That always got to me.
There's a lot of shlock in that episode. A shallow romance, a couple of punch outs, etc.
But that is an idea that is huge, IMHO. Absolutely huge. From where do we get our ideas? Where do our thoughts come from?
True. But it was her decision whether or not to deliver the garbage. She made the decision that being considered with-it outweighed her self-respect.
Multiply Stewart - very much an establishment figure - by all the other establishment figures who choose to join the obscene parade rather than be considered square and you have the death of decency.
ricpic - But it was her decision whether or not to deliver the garbage. She made the decision that being considered with-it outweighed her self-respect.
Dad Bones said "Looks like prison put some bite into Martha's sense of humor. She wasn't afraid of any of those guys."
Dad Bones - It's unlikely that she was afraid of them before prison. She's a very tough lady. From what I've seen of these Comedy Central roasts, the idea is to be as genuinely politically incorrect as humanly possible with impunity so even super sacred cows (racial stuff) are gored as Martha does here and it's fine because it's really just a bunch of rich people with no real cause for complaint, including complaints about racism, sexism, homophobia etc.
The rules don't apply amongst rich people, and that includes the rules of basic civility and the rules of political correctness. They're all larfing it up at Bushwood and letting us take a look thru the window before setting the dogs on us.
(Feeling very Carl Spackler today. Anyone got any plastic explosive?)
It's long (decades) been rumored that Martha Stewart and her husband were part of the wife swapping community in Connecticut. Suspect she was never the person she marketed. Stewart lost me long ago when she used a square to straighten the edge of a pastry before folding it over and crimping that edge. But I've found myself watching her latest, Martha Bakes, and she has seriously mellowed.
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gross.
Looks like prison put some bite into Martha's sense of humor. She wasn't afraid of any of those guys.
I'd been saying "and that's a good thing" as kind of my standard way of designating an endpoint to my line of thought for years, and then someone folowed up with a remark about Martha Stewart saying that, so I looked it up on the intertubes.
Damn!
And many moons ago I had a spiky punk haircut and some little kid told me he liked it, just like Rod Stewart.
Damn!
Damn! Damm those Stewarts!
DAMN THEM ALL TO HELL!111!!!!1!!!!!
It was written for her. probably by the same writers who write most of the cultural rot for the main networks. I imagine these writers molest young boys in their hollywood hot tubs and then pay them off to stay quiet.
This morning, on The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins started talking about how it's evolutionarily adaptive for children to believe and internalize the things they are told, especially things told by adult authority figures, especially their parents.
Kids who learned well from listening tended to survive better than those who faced danger on a more trial-and-error basis. That's where religious indoctrination comes in, as a side-effect, if you will. The statistics are astonishing how few children mature to deviate from their early religious training.
I had to stop the CD player right there. I'm, like, woah! I need to let this soak in for a while.
And I'm reminded of the Star Trek TOS episode Dagger of the Mind. That's the one where the interplanetary psychiatric hospital has the chair thing that can erase a person's mind and the person at the controls can implant whatever they want, for good or for evil, with a capital "E."
That always got to me.
There's a lot of shlock in that episode. A shallow romance, a couple of punch outs, etc.
But that is an idea that is huge, IMHO. Absolutely huge. From where do we get our ideas? Where do our thoughts come from?
Deep.
"Better send a begging letter to the big investigation. Who put these fingerprints on my imagination?"
I love that!
It's from the Elvis Costello song "Green Shirt."
It's what I'm trying to get at, here, but done much, much better.
"It was written for her."
True. But it was her decision whether or not to deliver the garbage. She made the decision that being considered with-it outweighed her self-respect.
Multiply Stewart - very much an establishment figure - by all the other establishment figures who choose to join the obscene parade rather than be considered square and you have the death of decency.
ricpic -
But it was her decision whether or not to deliver the garbage. She made the decision that being considered with-it outweighed her self-respect.
Agreed.
Dad Bones said "Looks like prison put some bite into Martha's sense of humor. She wasn't afraid of any of those guys."
Dad Bones - It's unlikely that she was afraid of them before prison. She's a very tough lady. From what I've seen of these Comedy Central roasts, the idea is to be as genuinely politically incorrect as humanly possible with impunity so even super sacred cows (racial stuff) are gored as Martha does here and it's fine because it's really just a bunch of rich people with no real cause for complaint, including complaints about racism, sexism, homophobia etc.
The rules don't apply amongst rich people, and that includes the rules of basic civility and the rules of political correctness. They're all larfing it up at Bushwood and letting us take a look thru the window before setting the dogs on us.
(Feeling very Carl Spackler today. Anyone got any plastic explosive?)
It's long (decades) been rumored that Martha Stewart and her husband were part of the wife swapping community in Connecticut. Suspect she was never the person she marketed. Stewart lost me long ago when she used a square to straighten the edge of a pastry before folding it over and crimping that edge. But I've found myself watching her latest, Martha Bakes, and she has seriously mellowed.
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