OK, this is the week we finally get to the flappers, you fappers. We've been spending a little extra time with our Christian textbooks' treatment of the 1920s, which turns out to be a fine decade for the authors to lecture about the culture wars of the last quarter of the century. And as usual, our 8th-grade text from A Beka,
It's not like the kids who are taught from these books are ever going to need to understand what Freud truly meant by the word "repressed"...
So when people speak of the 'good old days' they're referring to the 19th century? Before the invention of the horseless carriage, the wireless, and aeroplane? When women were kept in the kitchen, cooking and cleaning until they died in childbirth and saloons were men only?
"Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." H.L. Mencken
True story: my husband asked his maternal grandmother what oral sex was like in the 20's She said that it was good. (he was her favorite grandchild)
I have never figured out what people mean when they say they "want [their] country back." Do they mean back to, as in, back to the days before uppity wimmins and blahs had the vote? Or do they mean back from, as in, back from the uppity wimmins and blahs? In either case, that ship's done sailed. Good gawd, y'all, think of the revised editions of either of these "textbooks" when they have to admit we have actually had a blah president, and survived!
<i>World War I boosted America&rsquo;s economy and spurred great advances in technology. Prospering businesses and industries brought a higher standard of living, . . . Most Americans still held to traditional values based on Biblical principles.</i>
One of the primary principles of the Bible being that it&#039;s a great idea to wage war for profit and prosperity. Gotta love those traditional values.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend, and I always hated high school sports.
The bar&#39;s already open and I missed it? Goddammit!
Isn&#039;t it called Istanbul now?
It&#039;s not like the kids who are taught from these books are ever going to need to understand what Freud truly meant by the word &quot;repressed&quot;...
So when people speak of the &#039;good old days&#039; they&#039;re referring to the 19th century? Before the invention of the horseless carriage, the wireless, and aeroplane? When women were kept in the kitchen, cooking and cleaning until they died in childbirth and saloons were men only?
&quot;Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.&quot; H.L. Mencken
If they held to traditional values based on Biblical principles they wouldn&#039;t eat pork for starters.
<a href="http:\/\/www.bayham.on.ca\/siteengine\/activepage.asp\?PageID=60" target="_blank">Ontario,</a> actually.
True story: my husband asked his maternal grandmother what oral sex was like in the 20&#039;s She said that it was good. (he was her favorite grandchild)
All the young girls ... Keep alive for yourselves. Nom-nom-nom. 31:17-18. Fixed.
I have never figured out what people mean when they say they &quot;want [their] country back.&quot; Do they mean back to, as in, back to the days before uppity wimmins and blahs had the vote? Or do they mean back from, as in, back from the uppity wimmins and blahs? In either case, that ship&#039;s done sailed. Good gawd, y&#039;all, think of the revised editions of either of these &quot;textbooks&quot; when they have to admit we have actually had a blah president, and survived!
<i>World War I boosted America&rsquo;s economy and spurred great advances in technology. Prospering businesses and industries brought a higher standard of living, . . . Most Americans still held to traditional values based on Biblical principles.</i>
One of the primary principles of the Bible being that it&#039;s a great idea to wage war for profit and prosperity. Gotta love those traditional values.
Mary Boleyn libel!!!
Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises?
How can you properly tell the story of Reagan without laying out how his coming was foretold by prophecy?
The Aristocrats!
Seriously Dok, you should be awarded an Iron Cross for slogging every fkg week thru the seemingly endless swamp of christianista derp.
Goddam, I hope Obamacare covers frontal lobotomies in the FEMA camps.