Once, many years ago, in a land far away between two oceans, with fruited plains, amber waves of grain, and potholes on its highways, there lived a young man named Sam. Now, Sam was a bright young man who wanted to work and save money so he could go to school and become an electrician. But the only job open in his small community was at the gas station. So, for two years, Sam pumped gas, washed windshields, checked...
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Making Sport of Our Future
by WALTER BRASCH One of the fun things sports writers do is try to predict the winners and scores of upcoming games, from high school through the pros. For special “look-at-us-we’re important” bonus points, they create lists of “Top” teams and rank them, both pre-season and weekly. Sports writers have some kind of genetic mutation that leads them to believe they know more about sports than the average schlump who spends almost $200 a year for a...
The Sanctimonious Scavengers of the Penn State Scandal
by WALTER BRASCH There is nothing the media love more than a good celebrity sex scandal. Since the story of Scarlett Johansson’s purloined nude pictures had run its course, and the media squeezed every drop of ink it could from the Kim Kardashian/Kris Humphries engagement/wedding/marriage/divorce, they had to find something else to feed the beast with the insatiable appetite. Something else was Penn State. Neatly packaged for the media was the trifecta of what passes as journalism—sex,...
The Personhood of a Mississippi
by WALTER BRASCH “O.K., class, we have a few minutes at the end of today’s lecture about how the godless Communists created evolution to try to destroy the decent loyal patriotic capitalist society of America. Any questions? Yes, Billy Bob.” “Mr. Jim Bob, I heard about this thing called a person. What is that?” “Good question. With all the distortions by the lyin’ liberal left-wing, it can get confusing. But, it’s really simple. A person is an egg...
Y Kunsurvuhtivs R Aginst Branes
It is a profoundly anti-intellectual strain, the first naked statement of the "dumb it down" strain of "Conservatism" (which is, if you think about it, exceedingly radical, in wanting lots of social change as soon as possible) in demonizing "Liberalism" (which is, conversely, extremely "conservative" in continually protecting the status quo ante of the current social order).
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