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such a deal for you
You can sell anything. Everything is negotiable. RIP Ziggy. Zig Ziglar, an American original that harks back to the old Yankee salesman, something out of Constance Rourke’s Americana treasury and Herman Melville and that old American archetype “the untrustworthy narrator.” … Continue reading
humdinger jimmy: reckless pedestrian years
The beauty of being born again is that you get to wipe the slate clean. Its ingenious, very much in the spirit that de Toqueville described America on his visit early in the nineteenth-centiry as the land of constant personal … Continue reading
and in this corner….in praise of damnation
The 700 Club. Its a great publicity stunt by Pat Robertson to get attention,to revive the flagging brand, albeit it caves in, craters to the path of least resistance which is Muslim bashing and the scenario of Sam Huntington’s Clash … Continue reading
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Tagged Burt Lancaster, Christian Broadcasting Network, Christian Coalition, david rosenberg, Elmer Gantry, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pat Robertson, Pat Robertson 700 Club, rabbi tovia singer, richard brooks, Sam Huntington, Terry Meeuwsen, Tuvya Zaretsky, Upton Sinclair
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take off your hat when the hearse passes
God always seems to be bumping into an atheist’s head in the most unexpected places. There was always Voltaire fessin’ up on his deathbed.His almost comic anti-semitism attributed to a repressed piety and faith. But, then he was always angling … Continue reading
A COUPLE COUGARS:These Cats Are really Gone
Going Rogue in the wild. A tandem of dysfuntional cougars, who escaped the idyllic Cougar Town setting of the wildlife preservation. Harkening to the call of the past and a howl to the more enigmatic qualities of human nature. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldous Huxley, Alex de Toqueville, Cougar Town, Elfriede Jelinek, Elmer Gantry, GOP, Hillary Clinton, Huck Finn, Hungary, Hungary Politics, Jobbik, Jobbik Party, Ken Kesey, Krisztina Morvai, Michael Haneke, Nick Griffin, Sarah Palin, Sinclair Lewis, tabatha Southey
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Sinclair Lewis: Main Street to Mean Streak
Sinclair Lewis ( 1885-1951) was an American fiction writer acclaimed for his novel Main Street as well as Babbitt, Elmer Gantry, and It Can’t Happen Here. Lewis was the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. He provided … Continue reading
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Tagged Babbitt, Elmer Gantry, It Can't Happen Here, Main Street, Mark Jenkins, Sinclair Lewis, Theodore Dreiser
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