Welcome to the 20th Century, time tourists! Our 10th-grade textbook for homeschoolers, World History and Cultures In Christian Perspective, would like to remind you that while science and technology are developing like crazy in this new century, the world remains a very very sinful place that has unaccountably failed to adhere to the unchanging norms of Biblical Christianity, at least as they are defined by textbook publishers in Pensacola Florida in 1997:
Two things. Pensacola is only <i>technically</i> in Florida. It&#039;s closer geographically and culturally to Alabama and Mississippi than it is to anything you&#039;d recognize as Florida-like.
And second, even for the deep south, this place is a hotbed of fundamentalist extremism. Pentacostals are the religious moderates here. Fanatics shout scripture into bullhorns at intersections here. My favorite local bumpersticker reads, &quot;IF IT AIN&#039;T KING JAMES IT AIN&#039;T BIBLE.&quot;
I envision enraged minimum-wage bakery-counter staff chasing their own customers with cake knives to confiscate their cell-phone photos. It&#039;s called Customer Service, foo!
Not to mention that the copyright on the cake makes it an infringement to create a copy of that cake, but the copyright on the photo of the cake doesn&#039;t belong to the store; it belongs to the photographer. Yay for unenforcible and incoherent copyright law, brought to you by the free market and Rep. Sonny Bono (R-Tree).
You mean &quot;Jeroboam&quot;, &quot;Rehoboam&quot;, and &quot;Jesus Fucking Christ, that&#039;s a big motherfucking bottle&quot;?
For more historical fun, don&#39;t miss Christopher Buckley&#39;s front-page review of a new doorstop tome about Joe Kennedy, in which you can learn how JPK&#39;s virulent antisemitism led him to wish Hitler had won the Battle of Britain.
What about Freud, Marx and Einstein, those three Jews who ruined everything? Honestly, you&#039;d think editors of this book didn&#039;t rally understand what made the 20th Century the bloodiest and most awesomely uncertain century of all!
BTW: did the entire NYT crossword today, with no Googling or other intellectual prostheses. Here&#039;s a hint: 115 Across is &quot;saucier.&quot;
<a href="http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch\?v=9Pg3rmc243g" target="_blank">They were only playing leapfrog</a>, <a href="http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch\?v=ZSLx4AGdaVI" target="_blank">bless* them all</a>.
*ID now takes exception to a certain four-letter word promoted by Country Joe. Either that, or it doesn&#039;t like the abbreviation &quot;&#039;em&quot;.
And yet the good Lutheran and Catholic soldiers of Herr Hitler&#039;s armies were bravely fighting Godless, atheistic communism. How could they possibly have been defeated? And how was it that the greatest battles of Dubya-Dubya Two were fought on the Eastern Front? And that it was old Joe Stalin who defeated Fascism, not Patton and Eisenhower?
Oh, sorry, I forgot we&#039;re not supposed to say that.
Two things. Pensacola is only <i>technically</i> in Florida. It&#039;s closer geographically and culturally to Alabama and Mississippi than it is to anything you&#039;d recognize as Florida-like.
And second, even for the deep south, this place is a hotbed of fundamentalist extremism. Pentacostals are the religious moderates here. Fanatics shout scripture into bullhorns at intersections here. My favorite local bumpersticker reads, &quot;IF IT AIN&#039;T KING JAMES IT AIN&#039;T BIBLE.&quot;
That&#039;s the weirdest tabs I&#039;ve ever seen.
Not enuff APCs
I envision enraged minimum-wage bakery-counter staff chasing their own customers with cake knives to confiscate their cell-phone photos. It&#039;s called Customer Service, foo!
Not to mention that the copyright on the cake makes it an infringement to create a copy of that cake, but the copyright on the photo of the cake doesn&#039;t belong to the store; it belongs to the photographer. Yay for unenforcible and incoherent copyright law, brought to you by the free market and Rep. Sonny Bono (R-Tree).
For those involved, it was pretty dire.
Apparently, Frieda Frozentwat ((c) EQ 2012)
And now you know ....... teh REST of the story.
You mean &quot;Jeroboam&quot;, &quot;Rehoboam&quot;, and &quot;Jesus Fucking Christ, that&#039;s a big motherfucking bottle&quot;?
Lord Vetinari?
I see what you did with your tense and part of speech modification there.
For more historical fun, don&#39;t miss Christopher Buckley&#39;s front-page review of a new doorstop tome about Joe Kennedy, in which you can learn how JPK&#39;s virulent antisemitism led him to wish Hitler had won the Battle of Britain.
What about Freud, Marx and Einstein, those three Jews who ruined everything? Honestly, you&#039;d think editors of this book didn&#039;t rally understand what made the 20th Century the bloodiest and most awesomely uncertain century of all!
BTW: did the entire NYT crossword today, with no Googling or other intellectual prostheses. Here&#039;s a hint: 115 Across is &quot;saucier.&quot;
<a href="http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch\?v=9Pg3rmc243g" target="_blank">They were only playing leapfrog</a>, <a href="http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch\?v=ZSLx4AGdaVI" target="_blank">bless* them all</a>.
*ID now takes exception to a certain four-letter word promoted by Country Joe. Either that, or it doesn&#039;t like the abbreviation &quot;&#039;em&quot;.
Because the writing didn&#039;t treat the viewers like they were 7, and on Thorazine.
And yet the good Lutheran and Catholic soldiers of Herr Hitler&#039;s armies were bravely fighting Godless, atheistic communism. How could they possibly have been defeated? And how was it that the greatest battles of Dubya-Dubya Two were fought on the Eastern Front? And that it was old Joe Stalin who defeated Fascism, not Patton and Eisenhower?
Oh, sorry, I forgot we&#039;re not supposed to say that.
<i>become just one more of man&rsquo;s futile attempts to impose peace on people whose hearts are at war with each other.</i>
Well, that little tidbit sure sucks the stained glass out of the windows.