HMS Defiant: SAFETY IN PARODY

Sunday, April 20, 2014

SAFETY IN PARODY

No, parody isn't a country. It also looks to be against some sort of law. Warrants and searches and ferreting out secret identities, it all sounds like a war against Batman or Superman. What happened to civility? I'm not at all sure that I understand what law was violated here that warrants were no problem to get.

I don't believe in parody. It's wickedly dangerous and corrupts the mind. This was funny though. Gleaned from Atlas of Prejudice via Objectivist1.

4 comments:

Buck said...: I like the map. I didn't like the stories at the links... at all.; April 20, 2014 at 2:38 PM
HMS Defiant said...: No. I am put in mind a lot these days of my ancestor, the Constable, who joined his brothers in beating the absolute crap out of a lawyer outside the courthouse one day in 1922. Yes. I'm torn. I don't like that, however, it was a lawyer so that's OK.; April 21, 2014 at 12:11 AM
virgil xenophon said...: Circa 2003 I saw a map of the Middle East much like that (scary muslims, REALLY scary muslims, pissed off muslims, tame muslims, etc., that was LOL funny in the New Orleans weekly mag "Gambit." I clipped and saved it but t'was lost in Katrina and Gambits archives were also w. no back ups, and I haven't been able to find it on the net. More's the shame...it was THAT funny.; April 24, 2014 at 9:39 AM
HMS Defiant said...: I'll rummage around Russia for a copy. I remembered a great Broadside cartoon that I'd clipped ages ago and lost in a move. Finally asked the author if he would send me a copy. He did about a week later. With the digital age I don't think anything written is lost. I wonder sometimes how many collectors are sitting on the complete works of Aristophanes. If fragments made it from 2200 years ago, why not complete works? Other than fires, floods, vandals, what could happen? :); April 25, 2014 at 3:45 PM

Truth: Clear and Simple

“Equity” means “ruining everything but pretending it’s for fairness.”

I seek no better warrant than my own conscience.

Nothing is achieved before it is thoroughly attempted.

Nemo me impune lacessit

I stick to wholly natural foods like croissants and cream puffs, and chocolate eclairs, and french toast with slathers of butter and maple syrup. Natural. That’s how I am.

What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

I knew from elementary school that I would live to see the first man land on the moon. I did not expect to see the last one.

In the wake of Mueller investigation: “Democrats lost an election they rigged, and now Democrats have lost an investigation they rigged.”

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." - H.L. Mencken

A Great Victory

“You may triumph on the fields of Pelennor for a day, but against the Power that has now arisen there is no victory!“

When you think about it, the Wise in conclave, decided that the thing to do after this great but meaningless victory was to advance deep into enemy territory and fight a battle that they knew they could not win.

Using a 1955 World Atlas they found in a ruin, islamic terrorists selected the leading industrial city in America on which to target their wrath and their first atomic weapon. They picked Detroit.

“118 years from the first flight of fixed wing aircraft to flying helicopters on another world. Very impressive achievement of the West. Recall that Egypt's hydraulic civilization lasted virtually unchanged for over 4000 years and they were the leading light of civilization for most of that time.

“I shall not undeceive future generations. I could not tell the truth without giving great offense. Let the world admire our patriots and heroes.” —- Charles Thomson

An exclusive group I belong to: people for malicious decency.

Sunday, April 20, 2014

SAFETY IN PARODY

4 comments:

NO GARDENING, NOT EVER