There was a satire article earlier today about a Wal Mart customer stabbing three other customers to death over an X-Box. I had to read all the way to the end of the article before I realized it was parody, it’s that plausible.
Ah, Christmas Time is here. Clapper and Chia (the perfect gifts!) commercials are on the air. Time to potlatch our wealth in buying trivialities. To see relatives we’ve avoided all year. To overeat. To instill greed in children. The Holidays make me so blue, I can’t wait until they’re over.
Honest, I’m happy for you. My mother-in-law loves Christmas probably more than you do. It is what it is. Seasonal affective disorder seems to run in my mother’s family, and I have it. I don’t perk up until Spring, when I start my garden seedlings. Thanks for your comments during this past year, and also to others of you with intelligent, thoughtful, positive thoughts that you share. I learn a lot from them.
On the off-chance that you re-visit this page, do you have “The New Yorker” book with commentary on its cartoons, and with DVDs of all 60,000 to that point? It has all of Booth’s cartoons for the magazine. I especially like his caveman cartoons. I bought it for $20 — a huge bargain. The book is so heavy I couldn’t lift it after my hernia operation!
Whoa. You seem to be confusing me with someone else. I thought to most people here I AM a liberal enemy. Most of the books I read certainly are liberal if not scientific in nature..In re-reading Marcus Aurelius, I find:.“It is man’s peculiar distinction to love even those who err and go astray. Such a love is born as soon as you realize that they are your brothers; that they are stumbling in ignorance, and not willfully; that in a short while both of you will be no more; and, above all, that you yourself have taken no hurt, for your master-reason has not been made a jot worse than it was before.” (Book Seven, No. 20). .Meditation No. 17 says, “Happiness, by derivation, means ‘a good god within’; that is, a good master-reason.”.That’s the attitude I try to bring to these sites, and I hope I leave that impression with my own comments. Still, I wonder why so many commentators here seem intoxicated with animosity. This is basically entertainment, as, I think, is human life to some group of gods. We should have fun, and learn as much as possible about the cosmos before we are “engulfed by time.” Marcus Aurelius, again..
AlnicoV over 10 years ago
There was a satire article earlier today about a Wal Mart customer stabbing three other customers to death over an X-Box. I had to read all the way to the end of the article before I realized it was parody, it’s that plausible.
Uncle Joe Premium Member over 10 years ago
“Soon it will all settle down to simple greed and mayhem”I think Oliphant is talking about when the House goes back in session.
Enoki over 10 years ago
CEO’s of insurance companies I take it?!
emptc12 over 10 years ago
Ah, Christmas Time is here. Clapper and Chia (the perfect gifts!) commercials are on the air. Time to potlatch our wealth in buying trivialities. To see relatives we’ve avoided all year. To overeat. To instill greed in children. The Holidays make me so blue, I can’t wait until they’re over.
Kip W over 10 years ago
Much better to use the season as a club to bash people you think pay too much attention to the wrong religions.
Godfreydaniel over 10 years ago
This one was a riot—literally!
SHAKENDOWN over 10 years ago
Do they behave any better @ discount outlets like Tanger & such?
I Play One On TV over 10 years ago
Soon the “Where-it’s-Happy” news channels will ask us to vote on our favorite mall-fight video. Maybe we can have the Top Ten!
Hawthorne over 10 years ago
You’d have to be suicidal to venture into the market on Black Friday!
emptc12 over 10 years ago
Very good! I was just about to bring up Booth. I actually spent time looking for a Boothian dog in there scratching.
emptc12 over 10 years ago
Honest, I’m happy for you. My mother-in-law loves Christmas probably more than you do. It is what it is. Seasonal affective disorder seems to run in my mother’s family, and I have it. I don’t perk up until Spring, when I start my garden seedlings. Thanks for your comments during this past year, and also to others of you with intelligent, thoughtful, positive thoughts that you share. I learn a lot from them.
emptc12 over 10 years ago
On the off-chance that you re-visit this page, do you have “The New Yorker” book with commentary on its cartoons, and with DVDs of all 60,000 to that point? It has all of Booth’s cartoons for the magazine. I especially like his caveman cartoons. I bought it for $20 — a huge bargain. The book is so heavy I couldn’t lift it after my hernia operation!
emptc12 over 10 years ago
Whoa. You seem to be confusing me with someone else. I thought to most people here I AM a liberal enemy. Most of the books I read certainly are liberal if not scientific in nature..In re-reading Marcus Aurelius, I find:.“It is man’s peculiar distinction to love even those who err and go astray. Such a love is born as soon as you realize that they are your brothers; that they are stumbling in ignorance, and not willfully; that in a short while both of you will be no more; and, above all, that you yourself have taken no hurt, for your master-reason has not been made a jot worse than it was before.” (Book Seven, No. 20). .Meditation No. 17 says, “Happiness, by derivation, means ‘a good god within’; that is, a good master-reason.”.That’s the attitude I try to bring to these sites, and I hope I leave that impression with my own comments. Still, I wonder why so many commentators here seem intoxicated with animosity. This is basically entertainment, as, I think, is human life to some group of gods. We should have fun, and learn as much as possible about the cosmos before we are “engulfed by time.” Marcus Aurelius, again..