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2017-03-21 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Intellectual Enough To Be Brutally Murdered By Fascists

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Posted by badanov 2017-03-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 It's McSweeney's - sort of an intellectual version of The Onion crossed with wreckage washed up from The Atlantic magazine. Which is not to say there aren't people who think like this, Gawd help us all.

Posted by SteveS 2017-03-21 00:59|| 2017-03-21 00:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Yes. It is satire. An earlier offering:
MARCH 20, 2005
UNUSED AUDIO COMMENTARY BY HOWARD ZINN AND NOAM CHOMSKY, RECORDED FOR THE RETURN OF THE KING (PLATINUM SERIES EXTENDED EDITION) DVD
PART TWO

JEFF ALEXANDER AND TOM BISSELL

Posted by magpie 2017-03-21 02:41|| 2017-03-21 02:41|| Front Page Top

#3 The link is to the McSweeny search page, click to the Part 1, at the bottom to start the satire.

You did know that LOTR was really about neo-colonialism and the pipeweed drug trade, right?

Posted by magpie 2017-03-21 02:45|| 2017-03-21 02:45|| Front Page Top

#4 an adjunct professor

One of the serfs

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-03-21 10:50|| 2017-03-21 10:50|| Front Page Top

#5 Damn I loves me some McSweeney's. Especially a particular ode to Fall. That said, this coming April 15 in Berkeley could prove very interesting.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2017-03-21 14:48|| 2017-03-21 14:48|| Front Page Top

#6 TOTALLY INTELLECTUAL ENOUGH

I don't think I'm a fascist but I'd kill you just because you are both stupid and self-important.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-03-21 17:15|| 2017-03-21 17:15|| Front Page Top

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