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THE QUOTE
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the Universe.” — Carl Sagan
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YOU CAN’T MAKE ME HELP A CRIPPLE!
The Republicans are now officially mentally ill.
The 2016 Republican National Convention?
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Personal to the GOP: Boys — and I do mean boys — you’ve got to cleanse yourself of the United Nations-hating nuts within your ranks. I mean, honestly, rejecting the UN disabilities advisory treaty because that world body is seen by the madmen within your ranks as some kind of threat to our national sovereignty?
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By 2016, the Republicans will be the third party in a land that only has two parties. You guys are running yourselves out of business.
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STILL CRAZY
And, as long as they keep having “discussions” such as this one:
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… they’re going to come no nearer to sanity than this world is to the edge of the Universe.
Dig the one guy who tells the panel that he knows “many, many people who’ve saved their own property because they had a handgun.”
Many, many people.
I’m assuming that anything under ten does not qualify as many.
Many, I would venture, means, oh say, 20 people.
Fair enough?
But he says he knows “many, many people” who’ve brandished shootin’ irons to pertekt their cabin and kin. That means he’s squaring many. Ergo, he knows upwards of 400 people who’ve pointed guns at other human beings and threatened to take their lives if they do not desist from trespassing or otherwise attempting harm.
Where the hell does this guy live, in Gaul at the time of Attila the Hun?
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EVEN CRAZIER
Then again, before we get carried away about how deranged certain folks are in this holy land, let’s consider, say, the nation of Qatar.
Until recent days, the tiny oil sheikdom has been a financial sponsor of several of the Arab Spring uprisings in the Middle East.
In public, Qatar branded itself the champion of The People Throwing off the Shackles of Tyranny.
Oops. That is until the poet Muhammad Ibn al-Dheeb al-Ajami wrote a few verses praising the Arab Spring and — uh oh — referring less than glowingly to the Qatari boss-sheiks. Ajami was tried behind closed doors (and not allowed to attend his own trial) and was sentenced to life in prison.
Despite the madnesses of our Me Party brethren and sisteren, I doubt if even they’d endorse life sentences for the writing of poetry.
At least I hope not.
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THE MOTE IN GOD’S EYE
Try to wrap your mind around the concept of multiverses.
No, the term doesn’t mean a collection of poems. It’s the idea that this great big bunch of everything is really merely one of many great big bunches of everything.
Yeesh
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Maybe even an infinity of them.
And here we are worrying about Kate Middleton’s morning sickness.
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ALL I REALLY WANT…
This is now The Electron Pencil’s official, traditional Christmas/Hannukah anthem.
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