America’s contorted value system was reflected by some of the reactions to the blockbuster movie, “The Hunger Games” these past few weeks. (For those living on Neptune, THG is the story of a dystopian future in which America becomes a feudalistic plutocracy. It is based on the mega-selling book of the same title—essentially a revamping […]
It is no secret that many claims on the internet are extremely disingenuous. This posting regards the (apparently) fraudulent campaign known as “Kony 2012”—a bizarrely titled ANTI-Kony crusade. The cause is being promoted via a Youtube video—which has been viewed by about 60 million people. But what is it really? It’s a fundamentalist Christian evangelism […]
WE SHOULD NEVER HOPE THAT ANY HUMAN BEING DIES: A radical right-wing blogger named Andrew Breitbart died yesterday. In response to my comment about this on the MasonScott.org Facebook page (“There is now one less venal charlatan in the universe”), I received a slight scolding from one of my readers. The grievance leveled against me […]
The day before the Florida primary, Mitt Romney tried to sing “America the Beautiful” at a campaign event, and botched the lyrics…twice. He made the mistake most children make during the song: appending an “s” to “mountain” in the line “For purple mountain majesties”…while making “majesties” singular. At that point, I wondered: Does this guy […]
In this fifth installment of the Carnival Of Distractions series, I elaborate on some of the points made earlier. The thesis throughout the series has been quite simple: We Americans chronically concern themselves with the kinds of (inconsequential) things that a responsible citizen would never pay attention to. Consequently, we have become a citizenry bereft […]
