Pluto-murderer, Jesus-defamer, and notorious science-doer Neil deGrasse Tyson put on his troll hat again the other day, and displeased some parts of the Twitterverse with a terrible horrible unpatriotic parody of the Pledge of Allegiance: Reaction was swift and, in some cases, quite tetchy! Several people told him he needs to stick to science, because he is only supposed to do science, and who does he think he is, anyway? (Honestly, we don't think it's his best work, really.) For the most part, critics played the Love It Or Leave It card:
I got roped into one at our senior center. A girlfriend talked me into "jamming" with some even older guys at 11 AM, bad idea to begin with. At noon, the cook came out, banged on a pan, and led the pledge. It was hideous.
Yes. That one. I posted it on the bulletin board in my classroom back in the early 1970s. That was a time when things like that could be done without fear of facing the guillotine. Today, probably the guillotine.
No. No they really don't, unless you're talking about ISIS or the Lord's Resistance Army. The Mormons are pretty awful, but they don't attempt to frame journalists for terrorism, burgle FBI documents, lock their senior managers in a gulag for years, etc.
This crowd, always more patriotic than thou and they bray it loudly. Their heads are to be messed with -- let's get them behind a proposal to alter "In God we trust" on the currency to "In God we trust but verify" in honor of Ronaldus Magnus. "What? You don't like Reagan?? What are you, a RINO?"Hell let's give 'em "English Only" legislation that will put them behind the wheel of a fine Ford F150 lorry , they can throw a dolly in the back and use the lift to get the packets to the 2nd floor. We'll have them ordering "Folded Corn and Meat Product, Large" at the T-Bell drive-thru in no time.
everyone knows black people are not allowed to have views, and certainly not allowed to be uppity around their betters with their "education" and "science"
Ah, the 1890's when we were ruled by monolithic corporations and the one drop rule was codified. The Gay 90's where only the wealthy went to college, women were madonnas or whores and the big scare was all those horrible "not considered white" immigrants. Wait...what year are we talking about????
I might be "black", because my ancestry is pretty sketchy. Indian, too. I might have been 3/5 of a person, or none at all.
Yeah, the '00s pretty much did that in.
I got roped into one at our senior center. A girlfriend talked me into "jamming" with some even older guys at 11 AM, bad idea to begin with. At noon, the cook came out, banged on a pan, and led the pledge. It was hideous.
A beer vending machine on Little Rock AFB may be the best thing I've ever seen.
Same here. National Lampoon, too.
Yes, they have been misappropriated for civilian use.
That takes balls.
You'd be dead, so...
It's the one that looks like the Slovakian flag, if you're not paying close attention.
I reckon they did it on purpose. :p
Billions of brave American hero troops have died defending the 7th inning stretch too.
The colored folks and their theoretical astrophysics, I tell you...
Yes. That one. I posted it on the bulletin board in my classroom back in the early 1970s. That was a time when things like that could be done without fear of facing the guillotine. Today, probably the guillotine.
No. No they really don't, unless you're talking about ISIS or the Lord's Resistance Army. The Mormons are pretty awful, but they don't attempt to frame journalists for terrorism, burgle FBI documents, lock their senior managers in a gulag for years, etc.
This crowd, always more patriotic than thou and they bray it loudly. Their heads are to be messed with -- let's get them behind a proposal to alter "In God we trust" on the currency to "In God we trust but verify" in honor of Ronaldus Magnus. "What? You don't like Reagan?? What are you, a RINO?"Hell let's give 'em "English Only" legislation that will put them behind the wheel of a fine Ford F150 lorry , they can throw a dolly in the back and use the lift to get the packets to the 2nd floor. We'll have them ordering "Folded Corn and Meat Product, Large" at the T-Bell drive-thru in no time.
everyone knows black people are not allowed to have views, and certainly not allowed to be uppity around their betters with their "education" and "science"
Ah, the 1890's when we were ruled by monolithic corporations and the one drop rule was codified. The Gay 90's where only the wealthy went to college, women were madonnas or whores and the big scare was all those horrible "not considered white" immigrants. Wait...what year are we talking about????