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Book Shelf Space Allocation and Society (We’re in Trouble) Part One

“If you’re reading it in a book, folks, it ain’t self-help. It’s help.”

—George Carlin

I frequent my local big bookseller chain store on a regular basis.  I love books. Namely, I love philosophy (and bargain books with pictures of tanks and maps of the Western Front.) I consider the study of philosophy a serious hobby of mine.  The majority of my undergraduate credits have the prefix code of PHIL.  When I’m sad I read Emerson, when I feel invincible I read Nietzsche, I consider Schopenhauer and Kant close friends.  Some people watch sports, I read Willy James.

My homeboy.

I mention my affinity for philosophy because I’m troubled by what seems to be the constantly shrinking shelf-space dedicated to the love of wisdom.  My local bookseller has thirteen shelves devoted to Christianity, two shelves of Bibles, five New Age/Spirituality, and (oh, geez) fifteen to Self-help. Philosophy garners about one-and-a-half shelves at best.  Of those one-and-a-half shelves, toss (and I’m being conservative) half of that to silliness. Silliness includes titles such as Seinfeld and Philosophy and anything written by Ayn Rand.

Next time you’re at a big box bookseller, check out the self-help isle(s).  Put on your critical-thinking glasses and randomly pick up a few titles.  You’ll find that an uncomfortable amount of books are authored by people whose credentials include backpacking in Napal and 6 years teaching at the Center for the Advancement of Human Spirituality, Understanding, and Unity, somewhere in New Mexico.

Much of the Self-Help section, along with New Age/Spirituality and Christianity, is a scam or disingenuous, at best.

Here’s the thing: human problems are complex. Anyone offering a solution that’s simple and in book form is appealing, I admit.  But saying “Everything happens for a reason” doesn’t make it so. Neither does making unfalsifiable claims such as, “You create your reality.”   Further, soliciting inspiration from quotes, taken out of context, by people who sound important is a great way to sell books and make you feel smart.  Because, you know, you’ve heard of Ghandi, Plato, and Marcus Aurellius before.  By using faulty psychology, pseudo-philosophy and appealing book covers with plenty of testimonials (from people who may or may not exist), many people are duped into believing that spending just $29.99 on the latest Self-help bestseller and a trip to the bookstore (or a few clicks of the mouse) will empower you to change your life…for realz this time.

Self-help offers us a sense of some control in an otherwise chaotic world.  We feel empowered. Who doesn’t want to feel empowered and in control? Our concern is that we shouldn’t depend on shoddy information dependent on anecdotes and testimonials.  We must challenge ourselves to examine our relationship with the world in a more personal, pragmatic, and authentic way. The big guys (and gals) of philosophy, humanities, and the social sciences are the way to go.   Check out Part II next week to find out why.

Good shit right 'ere.

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Facebookers Clamor for White History Month

White people.

First things first. We at Lib Porn believe that Black History Month is an academic consolation prize for an entire group of people, tantamount to a bitch slap of smiley racism along the lines of, “Okay you guys have been fucked in America for years, so here’s a month of black history to shut you niggers up.” Except so many aspects of Black History Month reek of the foul aroma of the white power structure’s system. Black History Month is all Rosa Parks and MLK, very little Nat Turner and Huey P. Newton, which limits the centuries-long civil rights movement among blacks to the sort of fight for social change that white people are comfortable with. Ya know, nonviolent protests and calls for unity. But sometimes, to get some shit done in the face of injustice, oppressed people had to curse or get angry, and when black people curse or get angry white America gets all shook up. Basically, what we learn about black history in February is equivalent to a neutered black panther.

Yet even this racist academic token breeds resentment among white people too stupid to understand that yes, institutional racism is alive and well in our country. After preparing myself by popping several Quaaludes chased with a vodka and orange juice, I jumped headlong into Facebook groups who concern themselves with the issue of why there should totally be a White History Month.

"Damn niggras with their niggra hi'stry munth!"

The first group I found, which for some reason bore the visage of Sean Connery as a profile pic, was a lesson in racism, ignorance, and the absolute gayness of many white people. In the description field, the administrator of this group humbly states, “This is not a group supporting racism or anything along those lines. We just believe that if one race gets a month why don’t we have the same rights. We are not a racist group! Join but do not pick fights or try to insult.” Clearly, the admin doesn’t fancy him or herself as racist. The admin certainly hasn’t visited any Klan rallies, nor does he or she seem likely to lynch anyone. Yet this simple group description, which sounds somewhat naïve and innocent initially, reflects the attitude of the severe lack of self awareness among otherwise decent white people.

American blacks are, whether everyday white people like it or not, at a peculiar disadvantage. Yes, we realize that other groups have their own disadvantages, but black Americans have been demonized as persons to be feared. For example, for about a month Glenn Beck had everyone in middle America fearing that Van Jones and his marxist Black Panther buddies were about to explode Bettsy Ross. The Obama presidency has sent more hillbillies running to underground militia groups than any president in history. And let’s not forget the simple everyday fear of black men and the welfare queen stereotype aimed almost exclusively at black women. Also, it isn’t like black families from back in the day (back in the day being a pleasant euphemism for America’s slave-owning days) always had a chance to inform their children of their home countries in Africa; black Americans can’t trace their national heritage to individual countries as often as white people can. That’s why white people are German, Irish, or Norwegian, while blacks are just Africans. (To be fair, we understand that many young white Facebook users aren’t aware that Africa is a continent.) This lack of heritage beyond the breakup of an ancestor’s family at the hands of some toothless Confederate slave peddler separates the cultural identity of blacks from, say, Puerto Ricans or those darn no good Irishmen.

Dirty bastards.

All this, however, matters very little to those who are very stupid. Users who’ve joined the White History Month (who apparently enjoy Sean Connery’s handsome features a little too much) plaster the group’s page with innumerable comments referencing the disgustingly obvious racism forced upon the white community, which we assume really pisses them off. One user, whose comment received the Facebook equivalent to a standing ovation, said in response to a poster who said white history dominates text books, that “Text books teach about history as a WHOLE, not white history specifically.” This is like getting punched in the face then saying, “Well he punched my FACE, not my nose specifically.” The historical texts of the white power structure (and there is a white power structure, and no, poor and working class whites — some of whom are doubtlessly champions of a white history month — aren’t really part of it) center on the doings of powerful caucasians and caucasian nations. African involvement in these histories is relegated to that of a whipping boy of the Euro-powers. There is little to no mentioning of African civilization, that occurred way before any such societies in Europe, we might add, nor the devastation brought upon the dark continent, not to mention South America, by white colonialism. Sure, you’ll hear that the Spaniards did this or the British did that, but how many history teachers flat out tell us, “White Europeans, followed by white Americans, totally fucked up the lives of countless brown and black nations”? This, dear friends, is called revisionist history. Or flat-out-lying history, if you want to be blunt.

To be fair, there was another user who created a group called White History Month? (the question mark is not a typo), which was actually a formed by smart people who believed that the retards calling for a month glorifying white history were, for lack of a better term, totally retarded. This group (who lacks a photo or any mention whatsoever of Sean Connery) was, however, soon overtaken by young white idiocy. The admin’s calls for civility in poster discussion, and the original intentions of the group, were drowned out by countless racist one-liners and dubious evidence of the rampant prejudice against the oppressed white peoples of America.

Oppressed like a motherfucker.

All of this is very asshole-ish and, I’m sorry to say, unsettling. The internet is like a nude beach where people wear bags over their head; you can let it all hang out in the open, but you’re still relatively anonymous. That anonymity allows the wacky people of the internets to spew their disgusting bigoted beliefs. But Facebook isn’t anonymous. The person saying that disgusting shit is right there, in their profile picture, and might even provide a phone number or AIM screen name. So it isn’t like these idiots are just barking up the racist tree for kicks. They’re either too stupid to understand the not-so-subtle aspects of revisionist Eurocentric history…or they really are just bigoted assholes.

Links for white history month groups:

Here and here.

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Texas Board of Education Fixes History

Pictured: The Texas State Board of Education

Apparently, Texas buys a lot of textbooks. So many, in fact, that the Texas State Board of Education might usher in a trend that makes social studies textbooks literally (and by that we mean figuratively) give Ronald Reagan’s corpse a handjob while simultaneously rim-jobbing a mannequin representing the free market system, presumably dressed in a sexy skirt with sexy cowboy boots.

Above: The Free Market

Yes, conservative and Republican members of the State Board of Education in Texas are super pissed that public school textbooks tell students that the New Deal worked out okay, that the Civil Rights Movement wasn’t retarded, that the Great Society did some good shit, and American imperialism was sort of a dick head-ish thing to do. Furthermore, conservative board members want more chapters about how bad ass of a president Ronald Reagan was and how Judeo-Christian values totally inspired Bettsy Ross to stitch Old Glory together, or possibly Jesus himself, depending on which Jesus we’re talking about (they’re talking about American Jesus, the one who doesn’t want to give your cancerous ass health care, not the pinko Jesus that totally pissed off Rome, otherwise known to Texan conservatives as America 1.0).

Should the conservatives of the Texas State Board of Education get their way, it’s entirely possible that the children of similarly conservative areas will learn from a much more patriotic sort of textbook. They’ll learn how American imperialism wasn’t really imperialism in the traditional sense – ya know, because America is the land of Judeo-Christian values and shit – and those kids won’t know about American imperialism anyway, because in the new, more patriotic, textbooks, the word imperialism will be replaced with ‘expansionism’, presumably because the latter term doesn’t lead one to think of wholesale American exploitation of Latin America.

Latin American Chicks: (Insert erection reference using the word "expansion")

Furthermore, these new textbooks will teach wholesome middle American children that the Civil Rights Movement, according to a proposed amendment to the social studies curriculum, created “unrealistic expectations” for those uppity negroes (who’ve doubtlessly grown ever more uppity since the uppitiest negro of them all turned America into a Soviet satellite state). As you can see, this amendment, along with others, such as the one where all references to Ralph Nader are purged and replaced with true American patriots like Confederate General Stonewall Jackson, will instill a true sense of Americanism in a generation that will come of age right around the time the Tea Party rises up to murder their socialist homosexual despots, no doubt appointed by Barack Obama who, by that time in the future, will have abolished democracy, sort of like the USSR but with more guns, more black people, and, hopefully, far less Ukrainians.

This isn’t revisionist history. Absolutely not. It’s just a more Americanized history, which means that it will implement what most middle Americans already believe: America has rarely made any mistakes in its brief existence, minorities are stupid, Texas never really belonged to Mexico, books like The Jungle and A People’s History are lies that besmirch the purity of the free market system, and FDR was an eight-legged monstrosity hell bent on feeding blue-eyed American babies to Joe Stalin.

So thank you, Republican members of the Texas State Board of Education. Without your exuberance for a more patriotic history, my children would have grown up believing that Confederates were assholes, the Civil Rights Movement was a good thing, and South America fucked itself up without any help whatsoever from Jesus-lovin’ America.

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Coulter: Extra Cunty

Apparently, courts are for commies who hate America.

Ann Coulter is basically a cartoon character, along the same lines as Rush Limbaugh, just an ugly attention whore who often tries to one-up herself in regards to the disgusting shit she says any time someone gives her a chance to speak her misbegotten mind. Sort of like Wile E. Coyote, whose ridiculous attempts to catch the Road Runner got more ridiculous with every try (the road runner, in this comparison, would most likely be common sense, logic, or intelligence). Normally, sane individuals don’t pay attention to Coulter for this very reason. But now and then, the notoriously unpleasant cunt bubble blurts something that the New Right (Tea Baggers, Beck groupies, racists posing as “anti-socialists”) applauds. And that’s scary because the New Right, so unlike the current left, actually seems capable of getting some shit done.

Yesterday, the leathery fascist posted a commentary that denounced lawyers who take on “unpopular” clients. This backward outburst from Coulter stemmed from, as she put it, a few “conservative lawyers” who denounced Liz Cheney after she demanded the names of Justice Department attorneys who formerly represented Guantanamo detainees. In other words, the soulless conservative lawyers were absolutely right in calling Liz Cheney an idiot, citing American lawyers’ oft-forgotten tradition of defending clients that the mainstream would rather see beaten to death with American flag poles.

We’d tell you more about the beef between said conservative lawyers and Liz Cheney, but that isn’t our point. Our point is that Coulter goes on for two pages smugly dissing the vampiric bastard lawyers who spring to defend “unpopular” clients who, we admit, usually do so for attention and, eventually, cash. Coulter reinforces her public image as a vociferous fascist dicksuck by using snarky, beloved-by-Tea-Bagger rhetoric to demean the most important part of our nation: our courts.

To Coulter and those who share her outlook, those who aren’t ‘real’ Americans or, worse, not American, don’t deserve a fair trial. Hell, from the sound of it, Coulter doesn’t think they deserve a trial at all, as if the detainees at Guantanamo weren’t even human. This wouldn’t be so sickening if many of the Guantanamo detainees weren’t, ya know, just regular dudes who were jailed on a whim.

Basically, Coulter and her ideologically fascist dickhole pals seem to hold the highest ideals of the American experiment in contempt. If you ask them for justification for the war in Iraq, they’ll say, “Well we didn’t find WMDs, but we’re bringing democracy to those backward camel herders.” Yet when it comes to the pillar of democracy, a fair legal system (or at least as fair as the American legal system is right now), these fuckers like Coulter prefer a more draconian approach. And we have to ask, if we decide to deny the barest of civility to dudes who we may have locked up accidentally, how long will it take for this fuck-the-courts mentality to trickle down to American citizens just because the defendant is “unpopular”?

America can be sexy as hell. We’re a nation that promises cash, Ipods, Xboxes, and big tits. But these trinkets don’t make America America. In a world of retards, America has, to many ends, acted less retarded than many other nations. Hopefully we can keep it up, because as awesome as money and big tits are (especially when they’re packaged together), Americans should stand for much more than that.

If only this broad was a judge...

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Watch These Movies (Part II)

The following is a partial list of films, part of the Liberated Collection, located at the Lib Porn National Archives in Philadelphia. Watch them. They’re good for you. Part I is here.

Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life (1983)

Synopsis: A musical comedy loosely based on the Seven Ages of Man (infancy, childhood, lover, soldier, justice, old age, death). The feature presentation is preceded by the short film, The Crimson Permanent Assurance, which satires globalization – and stands the test of time over 25 years since its release.  The main feature is divided into seven chapters of loosely connected sketches ranging from a women giving birth to harvesting organs from a live organ donor to Zulu conflict in South Africa.  And, once you finish the film, you are rewarded with the meaning of life as envisioned by Monty Python.  Don’t fast forward to the end. Watch it in its entirety, it’s well worth it.

Why It’s Awesome: It’s like the TV series but consistently funny. Memorable clips include the birth and protestant scenes. There’s a lot of catchy songs and plenty of sexually explicit material. Religion is properly mocked. Meaning of Life riles up lame and overly sensitive people, which we welcome at Lib Porn.

Quotes: Grim Reaper: Shut up, you American. You Americans, all you do is talk, and talk, and say “let me tell you something” and “I just wanna say.” Well, you’re dead now, so shut up.

Hospital Administrator: And what are you doing this morning?
Obstetrician: It’s a birth.
Hospital Administrator: Ah. And what sort of thing is that?
Dr. Spenser: Well, that’s where we take a new baby out of a lady’s tummy.
Hospital Administrator: Wonderful what we can do nowadays.

Wife of Guest #4: We have to go – um – I’m having rather heavy period.
[awkward pause]
Guest #4: And… we… have a train to catch.
Wife: Yes… of course. We have a train to catch. And I don’t want to start bleeding over the seats.

Tidbit(s): Ireland banned this movie upon its original release. Oh, Ireland. Instead of banning movies why don’t you learn to grow potatoes.

More Info:
IMBD: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085959/
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python%27s_The_Meaning_of_Life
Movie Clips (Hulu): http://www.hulu.com/monty-pythons-meaning-of-life
Every Sperm is Sacred (YouTube): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0kJHQpvgB8
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The Blues Brothers (1980)

Synopsis: A musical comedy about two brothers sent on a mission from God to save the orphanage of their upbringing. Jake (John Belushi), just released from the joint, is picked up by his bro Elwood (Dan Aykroyd).  The two immediately visit the penguin who helped raise them and find out that the city is about a week away from shutting the orphanage down due to back taxes. The brothers vow to get the $5k needed to make everything A-OK. They set out to reunite their defunct band, The Blues Brothers, to settle all debts. But it’s not that easy.  DIFFICULTLY REUNITING BAND MEMBERS! NAZIS! BITTER EX-GIRLFRIENDS! THE FUZZ!

Why It’s Awesome: Great cast & performers (James Brown, Cab Calloway, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, John Lee Hooker, John Candy, Carrie Fisher…), great music, great writing. The only SNL-movie off-shoot worth watching.  It’s a feel good movie. Illinois Nazis get their comeuppance.

Quotes: Jake: You were outside, I was inside. You were supposed to keep in touch with the band. I kept asking you if we were gonna play again.
Elwood: What was I gonna do? Take away your only hope? Take away the very thing that kept you going in there? I took the liberty of bullshitting you.
Jake:You lied to me.
Elwood: Wasn’t lies, it was just… bullshit.

Elwood:What kind of music do you usually have here?
Claire: Oh, we got both kinds. We got country *and* western.

Reverend Cleophus James: And now people. And now people. When I woke up this morning, I heard a disturbing sound. I said when I woke up this morning, I heard a disturbing sound. What I heard was the jingle-jangle of a thousand lost souls, departed from this life.

Elwood: Illinois Nazis.
Jake:I hate Illinois Nazis.

Tidbit(s): The sequel, Blues Brothers 2000, is crap. Don’t waste your time with that bullshit. Also, when you watch the original make sure it’s the theatrical release version and not the deleted scenes edition. The deleted scene edition is just as crappiful as Blues Brother 2000. James Brown said this movie rekindled his career…and now he’s dead.

More Info:
IMBD: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080455/
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blues_Brothers
Blues Brothers Trailer (YouTube): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjGfnsjdJec
Movie Clips (Hulu): http://www.hulu.com/the-blues-brothers

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Pope Benny, Gays in Uganda, Rocket Ships

Pope B-Dog let the alpine play. He was pumping new shit from NWA.

Pope Benny, after suffering monumental embarrassment when one of his homies was caught trying to bang dude hookers with help from a man-child choir boy, has totally shown the world that he, nor his higher-up niggaz in the Vatican, actually give a crap about that stuff Jesus said about being cool to people. Because when push comes to shove and the institution that is the Catholic church walks the line between staying super duperly popular or actually embodying the basic tenants of Christ’s teachings, those motherfuckers would rather save face.

For instance, the Ugandan Parliament is attempting legislation that would toss homosexuals in jail or, if that’s not harsh enough, just kill the homos straight up. (Side Note: There would probably be a huge public outcry against this proposed bill if it were, let’s say, happening in Germany. But there are very few white people in Uganda; turns out Uganda is mostly full of Ugandans, so only wacky left-wing communists and George Clooney will give a fuck.)

Of course, Pope B-Dog didn’t mention the bill while addressing Ugandan Catholics. This is because the Catholic church in Uganda is competing with Christian fundamentalists and Muslims. The fundies and Muslims are, hilariously, not content with just imprisoning or killing gays; presumably, they would rather build a time machine and go back in time to kill the first homo, thus annihilating the ‘gay threat’ at the beginning.

Like this, but with dead fags and Ugandans.

The Catholics, fundies, and Muslims are fighting over believers, sort of like corporations battling for customers, although fuck the “sort of like” big business, because that’s exactly what’s happening here. And Pope B-Dog and the Ugandan bishops, instead of standing up for the principles laid out by Jesus, would rather play it safe and, at least, retain a neutral stance on the Homo Killer bill to placate the fiery hatred of gays held by Ugandan religious retards so said religious retards don’t go Islamic or pentecostal fundie.

This is akin to having two Nazi parties, one which is somewhat ‘progressive’ (in the absolute loosest sense of the term) and would rather just kill Jews as opposed to the super Hitler supporters who want to strap Polish Heebies to a rocket and send them crashing into the sun. (Another Side Note: Yes, we totally just took a cheap shot at Pope B-Dog with the Nazi reference. We’re aware and no, we don’t give a fuck.)

There it is, dear readers. This is what happens when so-called benevolent institutions must choose between sticking to their principles or, like any big business, fretting over their bottom line.

Pope B-Dog on recent criticism: "If they hate then let 'em hate and watch the money pile up."

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Terrorists in Bossier Parish, Louisiana: Beware

Terrorize this.

P.J. O’Rourke — “Seriousness is just stupidity sent to college.”

…or, in Bossier Parish, Louisiana, sent to a paramilitary training school run by (and we’re not making this up) the former president of an organization of police officers called (get ready for it) Cops for Christ. Bossier town sheriff Larry Deen has started Operation Exodus, a militia-like program to train ordinary townsfolk to totally fuck up Osama bin Laden, assuming bin Laden visits Bossier.

As opposed to cops who aren't for Christ.

Sheriff Deen and the 200 volunteers for Operation Exodus are, obviously, terrified of terrorists. Unlike we wine sipping east coasters, who no doubt want all agents of terror to be pampered and hugged as we tell them how much we value their religious and cultural views, the Operation Exodus bad asses are ready to kill some motherfuckers. But one has to ponder the probability of a swarm of bug-eyed, Quran-clutching Islamic militants descending upon the God-fearing folk of Bossier Parish. Well, we at Lib Porn didn’t have to ponder for very long. We will use our super mind powers to predict that there is never, ever going to be a terrorist attack in Bossier Parish.

Osama's next target?

A super duperly retarded mixture of religious wackjobbery and unrelenting small town conservative fear of terrorist attacks makes stupid men do stupid things, like joining a paramilitary organization to defend a town with a population of just over 100,000 people. We don’t mean to disappoint Sheriff Dean or his bad ass paramilitary forces, but we can safely say that there will be no holy wars, nor any wars against freedom or even wars against those with southern accents (that war happened already), in Bossier Parish. Members of Operation Exodus have, sadly, watched too much Glenn Beck and too many movies. The only time a small town of wholesome Christian Americans has been overtaken by evil foreigners was in Red Dawn and those evil foreigners were godless Cuban and Russian communists, not the various Muhammad Mafiosi planning on killing infidels.

Furthermore, terrorists spend a lot of time and money planning their attacks. One has to believe that any man willing to totally explode himself will try to find a good target. Well, dear readers, go to Google Maps and locate Bossier Parish. Not only is Bossier Parish practically devoid of all signs of civilization, although you may see a few mega-churches or even shooting locations for True Blood, both of which would send even the most crazed terrorist running in fear. No, a batshit insane religious nut who is going to train and plan for the most awe inspiring attack on western civilization is most likely going to target a city. Sheriff Dean and other small town conservative dickholes don’t seem to understand that nobody wants to blow up their fucking town. American citizens most at risk for being terroristed to death are the supposed liberal softies in the big coastal cities.

Sheriff Dean and those cut from the same mold continue to show us sane folk what religion, fear, and, most dangerously, boredom can to do otherwise decent people. In short, they become way too serious. Sheriff Dean was so serious about his town’s non-existent terrorists that Bossier Parish will now have 200 armed men ready to spring into action should anyone with a turban or camel wander into the town limits. Or maybe just an Arab who, for whatever, reason, decided to torture himself by traveling to Bossier only to discover that a couple of militant, armed rednecks are following him. Because Arabs are likely to have exploding planes in their pocket, or some shit.

She may look adorable, but Sheriff Dean assures us that she'll kill you three times before you hit the ground.

We suggest that any pissy pants, bed-wetting, small town conservative suffering from paranoia come back to earth. Grab a beer and take it easy. Skip the mega-church sermons tomorrow morning and bone your old lady. After you’re sufficiently relaxed, take a walk around your neighborhood (without a gun, nightstick, or terrorist repellent pepper spray). Now really, aside from the closet KKK members and meth-addicted moonshiners huddling in the woods, do you see anyone that poses as a threat to your way of life?

Actually, you just might. Men like Sheriff Dean who want to form barely-trained posses to fight phantom terrorists trying to burn down their town’s church are doing just what the real terrorists want. The douchebags who airplaned the shit out of us on 9/11 wanted to disrupt our way of life, get our attention, and, essentially, scare us to death. That’s what terrorism is all about. It isn’t about sending waves of foreign soldiers over our borders to topple our country, it’s about forcing everyday civilians like Sheriff Dean to shake in their cowboy boots.

Side Note: Operation Exodus seems to have no requirements for their rank-and-file. We’re not talking about ex-military men with training. We’re talking about these guys (actual photo of Operation Exodus training):

The elite warriors of Operation Exodus.

Fat old rednecks armed with .50 caliber guns patrolling a small southern town for terrorists?

“(Islamic terrorists) have been in and out,” a spokesman for Deen says. “A lot of our intelligence information has come in conjunction with the FBI and other law enforcement agencies.” When asked about this ‘intelligence’, the FBI Louisiana field office said they ‘would look into it’, which is sort of like when you ask a girl on a date and she says, “Yeah um…maybe.” The spokesman then went on to admit that they had little-to-no evidence of an imminent threat. This threat, Deen’s spokesman says, “came from tidbits”…at a time, we must add, that small town folk are more paranoid than ever. Given the fearful attitude of small town America in the Obama era, this is equivalent of thinking that the Ayatollah is hiding under your bed when Jimmy Carter was elected.

Christ. At least the Minutemen on the border are hunting people who actually exist.

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Watch These Movies (Part I)

The following is a partial list of films, part of the Liberated Collection, located at the Lib Porn National Archives in Philadelphia. Watch them. They’re good for you.

Joe Versus the Volcano (1990)

Synopsis: Tom Hanks finds out he only has a few months to live. Understandably, Tom quits his shitty job and is liberated from the tedium of employment. Lloyd Bridges offers Tom a chance to die as a hero, via volcano, in order for Lloyd to gain access to mineral rights from an isolated and superstitious island tribe.  In exchange for his services, Joe would be granted unlimited funds and is expected to endure a month at sea until he reaches the South Pacific.  Joe says sure. Joe meets Meg Ryan. Meg and Joe sail to the South Pacific. They talk and get to know each other. A storm! Peril! Existential Experience/Fulfillment/Epiphany!  They reach the island. Joe and Meg state their love for each other before Joe jumps in…then there’s about 15 minutes left.

Why It’s Awesome:  Includes a spectacular “quit your job” scene in the first 15 minutes. Tom plays a ukulele.

Quotes: Joe Banks: And why, I ask myself, why have I put up with you? I can’t imagine, but now I know. Fear. Yellow freakin’ fear. I’ve been too chicken shit afraid to live my life so I sold it to you for three hundred freakin’ dollars a week!

Waponis Chief: We are the children of children and we live as we are shown.

Dr. Ellison: You have some time left, Mr. Banks. You have some life left. My advice to you is: live it well.

Tidbit(s): Meg Ryan plays three parts and is kinda cute. Kinda. The film flopped at the box office despite it’s astute exploration of human sentiment and meaning.

More Info:
IMBD: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099892/
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Versus_the_Volcano
Tom quits his job (YouTube): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGLKnAvzlg4
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Wall Street (1987)

Synopsis: Charlie Sheen is a young, ambitious, business-school-wall-street type who’s hungry to have it all. Mike Douglas has it all and is greatly idealized by Charlie. Basically, Charlie wants to be like Mike.  Charlie makes his way into Mike’s inner circle. Mike shows Charlie how to make it. Making it involves acting shady.  Charlie is having doubts that he wants to be like Mike.  Charlie gets arrested. Charlie does the right thing. Charlie Sheen will always be Charlie Sheen, as much as he wanted to be Mike Douglas, he’ll always be Charlie Sheen.

Why It’s Awesome: The point of the film is to show that GREED IS NOT GOOD.  Well, not as good as business school douches and Ayn Rand readers would like you to think. Yet, more people than I’m comfortable with fail to realize that. Everyone loves to quote Mike Douglas when they should be quoting Hal Holbrook.

Quotes: Lou Mannheim: Man looks in the abyss, there’s nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.

Carl Fox: I don’t go to bed with no whore, and I don’t wake up with no whore. That’s how I live with myself. I don’t know how you do it.

Lou: The main thing about money, Bud, is that it makes you do things you don’t want to do.

Tidbit(s): Daryl Hannah is in this movie and is kinda cute. Kinda.

More Info:
IMBD: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094291/
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_%281987_film%29
Wall Street Trailer (YouTube): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCctqbRrsBQ
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Fight Club (1999)

Synopsis: This dude (Norton) meets another dude (Pitt) who helps him (Norton) get out of his shell through fighting. They fight outside sometimes where people see them. A following of interested individuals develops.  Enough so where they have club rules and outings. Strong undertones of anti-consumerism abound.  Things go swimmingly until the dude has some issues with the other dude. They fight.  Turns out: the dude was himself all along. Only one dude. No other dude. Pitt and Norton are one and the same. Like peas and carrots but initially confused about it all. A plethora of credit card company buildings are imploded.

Why It’s Awesome: Similar to Wall Street in the sense that the vast majority of people fail to appreciate this film properly. The fighting is secondary to the message of anti-consumerism and acknowledgment of valid dissatisfaction with modern society. Further, a plethora of credit card company buildings are imploded.

Memeroble Quotes: Tyler Durden: Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You’re the same decaying organic matter as everything else.

Tyler: You’re not your job. You’re not how much money you have in the bank. You’re not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You’re not your fucking khakis. You’re the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.

[the Narrator's apartment has just been blown to pieces]
Narrator: I had it all. I had a stereo that was very decent, a wardrobe that was getting very respectable. I was close to being complete.
Tyler: Shit man, now it’s all gone.

Tidbit(s): Helena Bonham Carter is in this movie and is kinda cute. Kinda.

More Info:
IMBD: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137523/
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_Club_%28film%29
Fight Club Trailer (YouTube): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QgFWXLN-ug
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Totally Awesome (Noun): The ACLU

America, for lack of a better phrase, constantly has sand in its vagina. An outsider wouldn’t expect this, except for maybe a Canadian, since Canada is really just a boring, less alpha male version of the USA. To everyone else America is a bully, and an unfeeling bully at that. Teddy Roosevelt perhaps; we’re a meaty motherfucker from prosperous stock and we’re so bad ass that we don’t even consider giving speeches unless we have a bullet lodged in our chest. We not only don’t feel the bullet stuck between our ribs, but we shrug off everything else too.

It was only one bullet, but he could have easily handled three or four.

Except that we don’t. Americans tend to act like cliché hormonal pregnant women, which is to say we get super emotional about everything imaginable, especially when we’re offended. Odd, considering America’s supposed love of free speech. Free speech, as we’ve mentioned before, isn’t as spiffy and spotless as it sounds; although the Alien and Sedition Act is long dead and nobody will get pissed if you stand on a street corner barking insults about King Edward, Americans like to suspend free speech when said speech makes them uncomfortable. Yet time and again, one organization steps up to not only defend the First Amendment rights of decent people, but also the rights of complete scumbags. And that’s the ACLU.

A liberal might say, “Dude, all wine-sipping communist liberals like me love the ACLU!” But the American Civil Liberties Union doesn’t fall into anyone else’s neat, tidy political box. True, liberals often champion the ACLU…but not when the organization is defending, say, a Neo-Nazi’s right to protest. Near a synagogue. During Yom Kippur.

And for some vaguely related reason, here's a pic of two hot Israeli army broads.

Free speech can be tricky, right? Some people think so, ranging from bleeding-hearts to the religious right.

Well it shouldn’t be tricky. If the lowliest and scumbaggiest of our citizenry are denied their right to free speech, we’re all at risk. Sure, some might wonder what a Neo-Nazi march has to do with their right to burn an effigy of Dick Cheney, but the link is obvious; the sensitivities of the public, and the government, are all relative. Banning certain manners of expression because of another person’s hurt feelings can easily snowball into political censorship. Look at Stalin. That dude’s feelings were hurt all the time. That’s why he loved gulags so much.

Possibly emo.

Conservatives really seem to hate the ACLU. Republicans, Tea Baggers, and most Americans who get sexually aroused by photos of Ronald Reagan think ACLU lawyers want to burn the American flag, put photos of Malcolm X in each white person’s home, nominate Mumia in 2012, and force every wholesome middle American child to come to school dressed as a transgender communist at least once a semester. Yet the ACLU defended Oliver North in one case and, in 2006, joined forces with gun ownership advocates in Washington State when Washington libraries blocked pro-gun websites on their computers.

"Dear God, not the pro-gun websites!"

Again, freedom of speech isn’t tricky. It’s brutally simple and sometimes that simplicity – the idea that every single one of us has a right to that freedom – can rub people the wrong way. Sort of like when the ACLU defended NAMBLA (yes…NAMBLA) in a civil suit after a pedophile murdered a child. NAMBLA was sued because the murderer visited NAMBLA’s website prior to the killing. Although the ACLU doesn’t endorse NAMBLA’s message, it defended the organization because NAMBLA had nothing to do with the murder. (Yes we despise NAMBLA too, but imagine if Eminem was convicted because some sick asshole started calling himself Slim Shady then killed his wife.)

If the ACLU were a person, it would have a monstrously badass set of titanium balls for it’s work in standing up for the First Amendment. When this organization defends the rights of those who, in their racism, sexual perversity, or love of national socialism, make us want to vomit our intestines all over the Constitution and even tempt us to say, “Okay, maybe not all people should have a right to free speech,” it’s actually doing our country a great deed. Free speech is what makes America America. Even if it sometimes makes you shudder.

Free Speech: Our Constitutionally-protected right to post photos of chicks hooking up. Eat that, China.

Posted in Totally Awesome {Noun}.

Ushers, Choir Boys, and Gay Sex in Pope Benny’s Crib

Vatican Ushers: Fantabulous.

We should all feel very bad for Angelo Balducci, an usher – not a priest – at the Vatican. Balducci was totally ‘busted’ for attempting to procure gay prostitutes from a Vatican choir boy, who happens to be 29 years old, which made me wonder what kind of guy who’s a cunt hair away from 30 becomes a choir boy, but that’s another article entirely. To be fair, Balducci is married man and, given his penchant for cheating on his wife with dudes, we can safely say that Balducci is a bastard. Balducci, however, isn’t really the issue here.

The media (in particular, the AOL News homepage, where I stole this story) has labeled this event a ‘Vatican Sex Scandal’. It will doubtlessly send shockwaves through Catholicism. For the love of God, Balducci was in the Pope’s inner circle! Although, one has to wonder why an usher is considered part of the Pope’s inner circle. Don’t ushers just kind of stand there?

Well, not this Usher.

Of course, his Holiness – wrinkled douche that he is – promptly fired Balducci and expelled him from the Vatican. This is odd when you consider that Balducci was just an usher who was trying to get laid…by adult prostitutes. It turns out that the sweep-this-shit-under-the-rug approach that the Catholic church employs so often whenever a priest fucks a child doesn’t apply to a loyal member of Pope Benedict’s inner circle who committed the heinous crime of getting his noodle wet with another consenting adult. And though the media is framing this story as an embarrassment for the Vatican, Lib Porn contends that Pope Benny and the higher-ups in the Catholic church are absolutely digging this development.

Why shouldn’t they? Benny and Co. have just shown the world that they won’t tolerate sexual goings on in their house. Not even for a moment, motherfuckers! Being gay is a goddamn sin and they tossed that homo quicker than you can say “Spirito Santi”. Big ups to the bishops, cardinals, and the rest of ya’ll, Big Daddy Benedict, gettin’ shit DONE.

"Woke up quick at about noon, just thought I had to be in Compton soon."

Except these rat fuckers that run the Catholic church are a bunch of scumbags. Sure, we can understand their reactionary social views, since they are, after all, religious people. The sexism? Well, Catholicism is pretty old and feminism isn’t relatively new, so I guess we can understand that, too. As for the Holocaust-ignoring bastards in the Vatican back in the ’40s, perhaps we can chalk that up to a fear of getting Luftwaffe-tized. But for years the victims of horny priests have been silence by an institution that, despite any pious facade, is just as corrupt as any other profit-seeking entity that cares more about public appearance than the well being of their rank and file. The rank and file in this case being altar boys, students, and any poor Catholic kid unlucky enough to be cornered by a sick old man wearing a collar.

Forget about Angelo Balducci. The Vatican and, to a lesser degree, Italian law enforcement will probably nail this guy to a wall in an effort to show the world how seriously the Vatican is about criminal activity (in this case, trying to pick up a few gay hookers). Yet this is a load of shit. If the Vatican was that serious, they would stop protecting the various pedophile scumbags within their organization who give everyday priests, who we believe are generally good men, a bad name.

Posted in Propaganda.