Recycling an old joke & the prescience of good Science Fiction

This is from my place.
The "birfers" and "deafers" are beginning to become the blackhole of batshit KKKrazy in our nation. The pull of teh Stoopid is so great that no light--of either scholarship or humor--may escape.

To recycle an old joke:

So, Satan takes a meeting with the entire GOP leadership and the reichwing's talking shitheads. He shows them a powerpoint of the world gone amok; war, pestilence, famine, endlessly proliferating tv reality shows and says:

"This can be yours--and it can be very, very profitable. The only thing I require is the blood sacrifice of your entire base of useful idiots--AND your souls."

Newt Gingrich, the group's spokesslime says, "What's the catch?"
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Watching these people, or reading their rants, is alternately hilarious and disheartening.

I recommend reading C.M. Kornbluth's
"The Marching Morons" (1951) @ http://www.wattpad.com/111513-Th...M-Kornbluth? p=1

Which includes this Palinesque line:

"the broadcast drama about you and your neighbors, folksy people, ordinary people, real people!"

useful idiots, indeed.


I added this link: http://www.sacbee.com/static/newsroom/swf/april07/mother/

(Thanks to Mack @ Coyote Chronicles--http://coyotechronicles.wordpress.com/)

This is a difficult thing to look at. It is about love and pain and the hell of losing one's child to a devestating disease. What strikes me is not just the emotional aspect but the obviousness of a cold hard fact. The young man in the photographs had what must have been exceptional medical care and still was in agony from his treatments and died far too young. I can only imagine what it would have been like for his loved ones to go through this with no help from the government or (oxymoron warning) a compassionate HMO/Insurer.

Please forward this link to everyone who tells you they don't think we need to overhaul our healthcare system.