tonight at 9 on fox
I’m becoming more and more convinced that at the beginning of the Reagan era, a super virus was released on the population of the United States. This was the “Stupid Virus”, which later mutated into the “Super Stupid Virus”. It became virulent when fed blatant stupidities, (Ronnie’s forte) and aggravated by cutbacks in public education. It became dormant for 12 years, during Bush #1 and Clinton. It then reached full virulence with George W Bush and the media takeover by FOX and the likes of Limbaugh, Beck etc. and became a super virus. The Stupid Super Virus has not yet mutated into a contagious form, but it could mutate at any moment, become a pandemic, and render the planet helpless against its spread.
Unlike, “SARS”, where rapid action by the World Health Organization helped to slow then break the chain of transmission, the Stupid Super Virus has been widely ignored by the national and internatonal health organizations. It has also been ignored by the media, unlike the overrated “Swine Flu”, which was blown out of proportion at the rate of Y2K (despite being easily treated with 7-Up, chicken soup, comic books and low dose Tylenol, H1N1 was spun into the Plague of Athens, a new Super Virus that was going to wipe out humanity).
The Stupid Super virus has explicit, outward, Pathognomonic signs. These are seen in politicians like Sarah Palin and Rick Perry and in the commoners known as “Teabaggers”, and included retrograde amnesia, declarative memory, acalculia, agraphia, aphasia, aphemia, apraxia of speech, consistent manner cognitive impairment, metacognition, and parapnasias.
So far, there is no cure.
If you live in or around the NE area: Eagle Rock, Silver Lake, Mt Washington, Echo Park, Los Feliz Highland Park, Glassell Park, etc. you ought to forego brunch or the dog park this one Sunday morning to see the veterans who come out be honored, some of whom fought in WWII. Not to be depressing, but by next year, there may be none left.
One of my favorite moments of 2011 was when the U of Wisconsin’s Theatre Dept nerds broke into Les Miz in the capitol rotunda.
I trace the origins of the payback loop to 1974, when the hooligans, hippies and yippies, “radical liberals” and “effete corps of impudent snobs”, draft dodgers and dilettantes, demanded Richard Nixon be kicked to the curb. That was a bitter pill for conservatives to swallow and they have been not swallowing it for 30+ years.
“You guys sought to impeach Nixon, so we began impeachment proceedings against Bill Clinton at our very first opportunity”.
I recognize that my financial status is ultimately based upon a stable and broad middle class combined with a social safety net for those at the bottom of the pyramid. To not understand this is to play right into Marx’ prophecy for violent revolution.
with best friends at my birthday party, philadelphia, pa
with best friend at my birthday party, los feliz, ca
“Ryan Philippe” for his Philadelphia Phan horror show, worn to Heidi Klum’s Halloween bash.
My less frightening, far sadder Phan related costume, entitled “Losing Season”, “Worst Fan” t- shirt by zoo with roy
