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Channel this...

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 10 Mar 2019 19:20:00 +0000

In reply to There's that great scene in

Channel this...

(not that Kesey wasn't well-versed in Moby Dick, and likely had some influence on Notion)

There's that great scene in

jollyroger — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 18:54:02 +0000

There's that great scene in Moby Dick, where Gregory Peck is strapped to the whale who breaches and Peck's arm beckons all to follow him into the deep....Is that what you're channeling? (4:00)

It's such an "own goal"-

jollyroger — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 18:47:51 +0000

In reply to I agree completely with your

It's such an "own goal"--shortchanging the secondary victims who were promised lifetime support in what I guess was a passing moment of patriotic enthusiasm.

The failure to recognize that the damages incurred were vastly enhanced because people relied upon the governmental line about "no respirators needed here...." and "move right back in, folks, just dust off your windowsills with a wet cloth and you're good to go..." is somehow extra special primo degenerate.

That's Sometimes a Great

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 18:11:48 +0000

In reply to In case it is not otherwise

That's Sometimes a Great Notion/Never Give a(n) Inch, arm strapped on the boat...

I agree completely with your

CVille Dem — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 17:22:21 +0000

In reply to Osama's Revenge

I agree completely with your idea here: ie, BinLadin is getting the last laugh.

But I’m disappointed because I read your title as “Obama’s Revenge, and I was very hopeful...

In case it is not otherwise

jollyroger — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 04:36:41 +0000

In reply to Osama's Revenge

In case it is not otherwise obvious, the arm of Bin Laden is crowned by a middle finger held erect in defiant salute to his executioners, as recognition of our predilection for turning perfidiously upon ourselves..