Category: Pop Culture

‘Do We Believe in Talking Snakes?’ (2019)

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Here’s one from five years ago that you might enjoy today. Do we, as Christians, really believe that Eve had a conversation with a serpent? ‘Cause atheists believe we’re schmoes for believing what’s published in the Bible.

Do We Believe in Talking Snakes?

But boy howdy, the stuff that they believe in! “Progress” (don’t make me laugh). Here’s a good one–Big Government. And how about “You can change your gender”? Good grief, a talking snake seems like pretty small potatoes compared to those crapola vessels. By all that’s preposterous, several million people voted last month to make Kamalalala Harris president! Anybody home up there?

Memory Lane: Sears-Roebuck Christmas Catalogue

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Here! Enjoy seven minutes’ worth of toys in the Sears-Roebuck 1960 Christmas catalog.

Oh, did I love those catalogs! I know it’s not quite what Christmas is about, and you can go too far–(Are you kidding? You can go way too far!) but come on, let’s get real: who doesn’t like to receive presents? Some of us like to give them, too.

I loved the “play sets” with mobs of little plastic figurines. Can I remember all the play sets that I had? Circus (I was, I think, five years old). Farm. Dinosaurs and Cavemen. African Safari. Cape Canaveral. Military Base (with spring-powered missiles!). The kid down the block had the Ben Hur set.

And then there were all the different construction sets with which you could design and build your own architectural fantasies. There was just no end to it. Sitting on the couch in the sitting room, watching the snow come down, and thumbing through the toys section in the catalog–was there ever a more pleasant way to spend a winter’s day?

Alas, there is no more Sears-Roebuck & Co., no more Sears Christmas Catalog.

Just memories.

[P.S.–That’s Bach’s Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring in the background.]

Dig the Headline (Culture Rot)

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I don’t want to see this movie. Here’s a nice rain frog instead.

You see a headline like this, and what can you say?

“Netflix’s Transgender Drug Lord Drama ‘Emilia Perez’ One Step Closer to Oscar Nomination”

How badly did we need a transgender drug lord movie?

How badly do we need Netflix?

This is culture rot, and eventually there will be a price to pay.

Way Too Much Technology!

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AI Girl Generator For Free Online

Computer-generated, make-believe, and phony as a $3 bill–and she’s all yours!

Hey, check out the current Malwarebytes newsletter (https://clicks.malwarebytes.com/e/evib?_t=24fabbbc5c2c43578ed8469e4f452569&_m=6d18adbfaab8417ea23ea21e3d55fe76&_e=TGxpKV8tRBiJhp-BFb0ZhCVS4wyZ6nemazqTBv5r4mvYX9VvQ2zlXVmfS8wTOkfVCt-3H_aar9F156la0uo1Qg%3D%3D)! Anything with a web address that complicated has got to be good.

People thoughout The Land of the Free are getting frazzled by technology that they didn’t need in the first place–and now it’s driving them up the wall. Stoves, refrigerators, vacuum cleaners: all hooked up to the Internet.

Why does anybody need a “smart” vacuum cleaner? There’s a vac with a video feed. At last! I can film the dust-bunnies under the bed!

Best of all is the rise of the “AI girlfriend,” a make-believe, computer-generated sex slave… which hackers can hack, and blackmailers can use to bleed you dry… if you’re daft enough to go for this.

Why in the world do we want hi-tech everything? Settin’ ourselves up for a mighty powerful hurt, aren’t we? The whole world’s connected! And then something goes wrong with the connection. Oops.

Oh, No–Monkey Bars!

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Monkey bars were invented 100 years ago and can now be found in thousands of playgrounds from sea to shining sea… and parents are getting edgy, and there is a growing movement to take away the monkey bars. Someone might fall off.

Has it truly come to this? They’ll take away our monkey bars? All in the interests of “safety,” of course. You can never have too much safety.

But! Anthropologists at Dartmouth University say monkey bars are good for you (https://home.dartmouth.edu/news/2024/09/risky-play-exercises-ancestral-need-push-limits). As are very many forms of play–in most of which there is always the possibility of injury. Oh, my. Did that really need to be said? Really?

I think too much safety is… unsafe! We have muscles and bones that have to be tested, exercised, if they’re going to stay healthy. Monkey bars, swings, see-saws–they all fill that necessary function.

By living in such a way as to avoid all risk of injury, we court injury!

I fear for the future of common sense.

‘Work Wanted (College Grad)’ (2016)

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Here are some of the “Work Wanted” ads actually posted on the bulletin board at the Che Guevara Student Collective at Beezer University. That’s the one right next to the statue of John Kerry.

Work Wanted (College Grad)

Trying to find a real job after earning a degree in Political Science/International Relations–what a hoot that was! One of those things they don’t tell you while you’re paying tuition (“Either stay in school or see if they can use another fry guy at Burger King…”)

Ah, well, it only took me 50 years to get my act together.

‘The Most PC Cop Show Ever’ (2020)

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Some of you may have noticed I’m not quite up to par today–and tomorrow it’s back to daily visits to the hospital. Even so, here’s a little something from the archives.

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This New Zealand cop show had a certain charm, and just a touch of quirkiness. We liked it.

But after a couple seasons, it dove down the rabbit hole with the rest of the culture rot. God help us, our Western civilization–once upon a time called “Christendom”–is in deep, deep trouble: all of it of our own making.

(And now the computer has decided not to post any images. Might as well try the laptop…)

(And for some reason the ancient laptop works… where the new computer says “I prefer not to.”)

‘Witch Doctor for Hire: Have Spells, Will Travel’ (2015)

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I can only listen to so much bilge from globalists, liberals, and other utopian nudnicks before I start thinking of societies held in thrall by witch doctors. That still exists in Africa today–only now they’ve got the Internet and cell phones.

Witch-Doctor for Hire: Have Spells, Will Travel

But don’t feel superior! America and Europe are every bit as credulous and superstitious as Africa. What can any witch doctor say that’s more preposterous than what we get from the World Economic Forum and the Democrat Party?

Yeah… but muti magic kills…

Tell it to the Ukrainians and Russians.

‘Bad Culture… Bad Politics?’ (2018)

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The couch potato doesn’t even know he’s under attack.

I wrote this in 2018 and it only seems more applicable with the passage of six years–not less.

A fouled culture breeds more Democrats, who befoul the culture they’re born into. Or, as I say, Kill the culture and the culture will kill you back.

Bad Culture… Bad Politics?

That so much of this garbage is pitched to us and consumed by us–indeed, sought out by us!–as “entertainment” leaves one almost speechless.

If the Democrats win this one, next month… I think we’ve had it. Hasta la vista, baby.

How Real Is ‘Real’?

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Behold the mighty jackalope…

The human race has always had its storytellers. What would I do if I didn’t tell stories? But is there a point where story-telling goes too far?

TV, movies, radio, books, newspapers: and now the world-wide Internet, YouTube and all that… too much of a good thing? I mean, for how many hours of the day are we plugged in to this stuff? And how do we even begin to tell the difference between “news” and sheer poppycock?

Maybe I shouldn’t be saying this. Maybe it’s because my hip hurts and I’m more afraid of those things in my gut that don’t hurt but will kill me if the doctors don’t kill them first. Or do I just care enough to want to maintain that wall of separation between fiction and fact? If we can even find the facts.

It’s sunny out today. I think I’ll have my cigar.