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Crazy Is Fun....... For a While.

“No society can entirely do without intelligentsia, but they’re like gut bacteria – valuable, but they have to be constrained in number and kept in their place or disaster ensues.” – Glenn Reynolds

In many ways, this is the most brilliant analogy I can think of to describe the problem of modern Western Culture. Gut bacteria is critical for human survival. It allows us to digest nutrients that keep us healthy. Likewise, intelligentsia help digest fresh intellectual concepts that keep a culture growing and dynamic.

But if gut bacteria escapes the digestive system and is introduced into the body, peritonitis results. It grows wildly out of control, inflaming the body’s tissues, creating abdominal pain, digestive upset, and eventually confusion and fatigue. Left unchecked death results.

Since World War II, in large part due to appreciation of how technology helped the Allies win the war, America created a meritocracy based on intellectual achievement. No longer was admired the fastest runner, the champion marble shooter, or the strongest boxer. The work of the artisan, whether the mechanic, the cabinetmaker, or the baker, was looked down upon.

Instead, the best and brightest were held up as exemplars. The intelligentsia exploded in numbers and escaped their natural environment of academia to populate — and run — all of society.  It took a while, but societal peritonitis has resulted, expressed as Woke culture, transgenderism, and Scientism as a form of worship. It will eventually reduce us to a regressive, feudalist society.

In Churchill’s words, “a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.”

I don't know what the ultimate solution is or how we are to achieve it. We must find some way to return and confine the intelligentsia to their proper place without destroying them. They are necessary, but – as the last 20 years or so have demonstrated — we cannot allow them to run unchecked or to rule us. Crazy is fun for a while, like during your college years. It is too unstable to tolerate very long.

A Good Monday Morning

What Better Way To Kick Off Super Bowl Sunday Than With Film of Joe Biden Scoring Touchdowns.

Believe it or not, Joe Biden was a star hero footballer in high school, and what better way is there to celebrate Super Bowl Sunday than watching game film of the then-future POTUS doing a Justin Jefferson all over the his opponents scoring touchdown after touchdown?

In fact, there’s a collection of Archmere Academy game films — narrated by then-quarterback Bill Peterman and chock full of charmingly low-tech production, really loud unlicensed music, and some fancy dance moves by Peterman at the end — that has been sitting on YouTube since 2010, the year that Peterman and his former teammates met to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their undefeated season. But the clip has gone largely unnoticed, and as of writing this, has been viewed by just over 8 thousand people.

[Mediaite] ~ Thank You WHATFINGER NEWS for the Linkage! ~

Middle Finger Symphony Theater

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Riveting New Documentary Film By Director E. Taint

 Children Will Study This International Crisis Triumph For Decades

Earl Done This Arts (Click Image To Make Biggie)

Note from US Ministry of Truth: "Chinese Spy Balloon" is a Xenophobic microaggression.

The new term is "Alleged Gas Filled Reconnaissance Floaty Thing." 

That is all.

Senator Shotgun Fetterman Rushed to DC Hospital

Democrat Senator John "Shotgun" Fetterman was hospitalized last night at George Washington hospital after feeling light-headed while attending a Democratic retreat. Doctors believe there was no evidence of a new stroke. More tests are being run and the senator says he is in "good spirits".

DMF resident Medical Expert, Dr. Z. Cockburn Savage III, believes Fetterman's latest health issue could very well be one of the many known side effects of listening to Joe Biden speak for prolonged periods of time. Doctor Savage also postulated the Senator could have been traumatized from wearing a suit for an extended period.

We are all praying for a speedy recovery John.

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Get Out And Go Buy An Envelope.

So, I ran across this fascinating little post about an interviewer asking Kurt Vonnegut about a passage in his then newly published book, Man Without A Country, struck a chord with me. 

I lost my OPS Manager to Covid early last year, so I took on some of her duties. That made a lot of people happy; it got me out of the building and the engineer's hair when it wasn't necessary for me to be involved. Computers and technology are wonderful, and they make us better at what we do. But, we must never forget, as Vonnegut reminds us, that we are dancing creatures.

I have come to know exactly where Vonnegut was coming from.....

 DAVID BRANCACCIO: There's a little sweet moment, I've got to say, in a very intense book-- your latest-- in which you're heading out the door and your wife says what are you doing? I think you say-- I'm getting-- I'm going to buy an envelope.

KURT VONNEGUT: Yeah.

DAVID BRANCACCIO: What happens then?

KURT VONNEGUT: Oh, she says well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And, see some great looking babes. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And, and ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is, is we're here on Earth to fart around.

And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And, we're not supposed to dance at all anymore.

~ Thank You Larwyn's Linx@ Doug Ross Journal for the Linkage! ~

Cliff Notes To SOTU. I Watched So You Didn't Have To.

7:55 PM: Eerily strange looking people wondering around aimlessly are talking to themselves and each other. Fetterman's pointed head visible above the crowd. Kyrsten Sinema enters chamber looking like she's is wearing the kitchen curtains from Pee Wee's Playhouse. Speaker Kevin is looking up & down at Kamala like she smells of a reanimated corpse. That means we're starting soon kids!

There's a guy in a white lab coat just to the left of the dais -- I imagine that's a doctor in case Greazy Joe's mouth outruns it's supply line and he goes into vapor lock, or the Turd Fairy shows up unexpectedly. 

And look there 'it's the Supreme Court guys. Love them a lot. Apparently Alito, Gorsuch, and Thomas have chosen to make themselves scarce. Probably out guarding the big fence around the capital in case the Vikings show up. And there's Dr. Jill, lookin' like she raided Princes' closet, wearing a Hot Fluorescent Purple dress and 1970s' flowing locks. 

Greasy Joe finally makes it to dais looking wide eyed like he's charged up with a full load of adderall and ready to kick it!

Starts with kind words to Speaker Kevin and the 'ol gasbag Pelosi. Oh Shit. Joe just called Chuck Schumer Minority Leader. What a kick in the nads for Chucks ego!

Joe is now doing his patented "we're all America, look how we work together" bullshit. 

Kamala looks like she's holding in a massive fart.

Oh Joe starts lyn' -  12 billion new manufacturing jobs and "lowest unemployment since 1969" - FACT CHECK PLEASE!

Joe is explaining cars needs chips and salsa.

Ooooh Joes MAD, Joe's SHAKING a FINGER. HOW VERY DARE YOU for being 13th in infrastructure. LOOK AT THIS FUCKIN IRONWORKER. We need more Ironworkers (to extort money from to give to Democrats.) Joe's just listing shit now, but EXCITED. IRON! LUMBER! FIBER OPTIC CABLE! CHAMOMILE TEA!

Joe promises we don't have to worry about Big Pharma, he promises they will be fine, even though he murdered them with cheap insulin. - FACT CHECK PLEASE!

Kamala really needs to do something about that turkey neck she's growing. Damn Girl!!

Joe mentions that the winger extremouses wanna repeal the Inflation Reduction Act, and they all applaud, and he just laughs in their faces. Then drools' a little.

Got back from getting a small sip of Four Roses Small Batch and Joe's shouting! Repub are shouting! Joe's shouting. Like Prime Minister's Fisticuffs And Gentlemen's Crumpets and Swaggerbobbing! I don't know what's going on! It's so much fun! 

Joe says we'll need oil for at least another decade and there's a hearty roar of laughter in his face, and now he is being roundly booed for noting that Trump can suck a big old deficit. Another big round of boos for Joe when notes tha Repubs want deep six Social Security. - FACT CHECK PLEASE.

Joe says some cool shit he did, like not letting Jimmy John's kidnap Subway employees or something and some other cool shit too, I forget. I went to get another small sip of Four Roses Small Batch.

So now Joe's got a bit of a laundry list going here of shit Biden wants done: ABORTION FOR EVERYONE! Tiny American flags for others! Ukraine, Putin, queer folks, a path to citizenship.

Joe slimed right over his offenses, rampant crime, invasion of our borders and poison drugs that kill everyday. 

Joe spending little time on the China balloon, which Old Joe murdered with his bare space lasers. People are shouting USA,USA which is visabley annoying the dems. Suspect AOC started crying, can't say for sure. 

Joe is against cancer. Joe is against hitting Paul Pelosi in the head with a hammer. DON'T BE ANTI-DEMOCRATIC SHITHEADS! says Joe. NO HITTING DEMOCRATS IN THE HEAD WITH A HAMMER.

Lots more blah blah blah......

9:20 PM: And Joe is DONE HERE.

He loves you baby. He wants you to be happy, and good, and not a dick like Speaker Kevin who was nice enough to invite him over to our house.

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I know you've probably already seen it, but Governor Sarah's rebuttal was a two to the chest and one to the head of Biden and his far left toads. And she left no doubt we'd better stand up for what we believe and give a big 'ol middle finger to the woketards. 

Thanks To Gator Doug @ The Daily Gator for the Linkage!