The reptiles were on fire this day, shocked and appalled at the way, despite their best endeavours, the world had made a wrong turn …
There could be only one explanation …
Most unkind BR, it was pleasing that the reptiles were still in the thrall of IQ tests …
With everything that's been going down, the pond never thought it would be grateful for the never-ending off-Broadway musical, The Crisis in Western Civilisation, but thank the long absent lord, dashing Donners was on parade …
With everything that's been going down, the pond never thought it would be grateful for the never-ending off-Broadway musical, The Crisis in Western Civilisation, but thank the long absent lord, dashing Donners was on parade …
Oh the west is lost, and Donners once more is down in the dumps ...
Indeed, indeed. Of course it's absolutely impossible for students to understand Western Civilisation unless they understood China first, at least if they want to know where gunpowder came from … but the pond hasn't got time for the usual Donners fatuities, there's much to cover in this sequel, and we've barely got to the middle of the first act ...
Sheesh, the pond loves it when fair average fundamentalist Catholics dress themselves up in Renaissance clothes, and cloak themselves in the likes of Burke, Paine and Wollstonecraft, while the church goes about its business of controlling women's bodies and all the rest of its fundamentalist business …
It's as if the Counter-Reformation disappeared up their fundaments or an historical void.
It's as if the Counter-Reformation disappeared up their fundaments or an historical void.
It's a bloody marvel, it is, and the pond still can't understand why the ACU hasn't ridden to the rescue. A course on why the Pope should be a woman would be a wondrous sight …
Meanwhile, the reptiles were still keen to lather up a storm on another matter mentioned by the pond ...
They had to have two reporters on the job - a lesser member of the Kelly gang, and Fergo?
And then all they could produce was a damp squib, or as its known in the theatre game, a fudge of a Tudge?
And then all they could produce was a damp squib, or as its known in the theatre game, a fudge of a Tudge?
The stench of righteous precious snowflake hypocrisy was overwhelming, with the reptiles heading off to wail to the Human Rights Commission …
Sometimes the pond wonders how these reptiles can manage to look at themselves in the mirror at night, but then remembered that in the hive mind, soused by regular supplies of kool aid, freedom of speech only means the freedom to join in reptile crusades …
Well it was a short second act, and so the pond headed off to doddering Dodders for a third act ...
Will they never get bored with it?
Actually the pond can recall a politician helping out, at least if this cartoon's got the quote right …
Sadly doddering Dodders doesn't pause for a nanosecond to contemplate the way that the Murdochians have helped fuck over the United States … he really does need a remedial course in Fox and Friends viewing ... and so we must move on ...
The classics? Why only last week Chairman Rupert was still talking up the benefits of a classic …
And what do you know? Tom Paine and Wollstonecraft turn up again to do even more overtime ...
Joe de Bruyn is part of a broad, inclusive and balanced approach?
Sorry, if the pond wants a dose of Catholic fundamentalism, it'll head off to Opus Dei.
Sorry, if the pond wants a dose of Catholic fundamentalism, it'll head off to Opus Dei.
The Bomber has bailed? That figures - not enough brains to spot what he was getting in to, but enough brains to realise that being a Gov was a sweet gig …
But there right at the end with the plaintive plea for a figure on the left-leaning part of the spectrum is where doddering Dodders totally lost the pond.
There's more to academic study, the world and life than the simplistic dialectic of pea-brained notions of left and right, but not in the world of Murdochians, where everything must be refracted through an ideological filter …
Kick little Johnny, the onion muncher and any sitting MPs or former politicians off the board, and bring on almost anybody else and you might have a chance at getting people to pay attention … but the way the Murdochians have wholeheartedly entered into this crusade, the notion that the crusade is balanced verges on a cosmic joke …
Fortunately there might be hope for Western Civilisation yet …
Yep, every so often the pond's logarithms throw up a news story from CBC, and this was most excellent fun … talk about broad and inclusive and balanced ...
There must be a honey pot around Rupert's arse because there seems to no end to the drones that hang around to sample the dregs.
ReplyDeleteDonners/Ryckmans: "...of course it's absolutely impossible for students to understand Western Civilisation unless they understood China first."
ReplyDeleteSo ok, the Ramsays should start up their 'Western civilisation' degree at Peking University then. Surely they don't want to condemn all those Chinese students to fail to understand China just because nobody would teach them all about Western civilisation.
But, butt ... should the Chinese start a Chinese civilisation course here so that we can begin to understand Chinese civilisation as necessary to understanding Western civilisation ?
"Of course it's absolutely impossible for students to understand Western Civilisation unless they understood China first."
Right on DP. Great minds don't you know ... or was that fools or summat.
"...if they want to know where gunpowder came from …"
Ahh, but then: "The Chinese do seem to have invented guns independently of the Europeans, at least in principle; but, in terms of effective cannon, the edge goes to Europe."
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_gunpowder#Historiography_of_gunpowder_and_gun_transmission ]
Just think of it: those sneaky little round eyed bastards stealing good honest Chinese technology and turning into superior weapons ! And not only cannons, but also European improvements to the magnetic compass and the invention of accurate timepieces (aka clocks) that gave the Europeans naval superiority for centuries.
There's just no decency or justice in the world, is there.
So, when Dodders Donnelly lists a bunch of "Western civilisation" authors (Smith, Paine, Wollstonecraft, Thompson - wau that's a comprehensive list), do we think he has ever, in his very limited Catholic life, encountered Christine de Pizan (1364 - 1430) and her famous work 'The Book of the City of Ladies' ? And if not, why not ? She was a Catholic, after all.
Donners: "...only one Labor figure, Joe de Bruyn"
And him only because he's a very right-wing and intolerant "Labor figure".
It's sickening to see Pierre Rykmanns dragged down to help this silly project to boost a
ReplyDeleteTory view of civilization. He existed on a level far above these squabbles and I don't doubt he has been misrepresented and quoted out of context.