11.22.11
Ah-ha moment in cine: life imitating art
“They’ve been told we’re commies. Tryin’ to bring down the government.”
Roddy Piper as the artfully named Nada.
Real world unintentionally bleak humor.
Cheerleading imparts valuable “life-skills.”
“Boosting [your] schools teaches … skills to represent businesses or organizations after graduation … failure is not an option … Stay optimistic!”
Perhaps no truth to the rumor Homeland Security has a special department employing people writing stories like the above for syndication into Internet news feeds.
They Live sign: “Obey.”
From Pine View Farm (good punning malapropism, too — see link):
Freedom of speech exercised against what in my younger days was called “the Establishment??? is tolerated as long as it stays in the backwaters (sort of like this blog). Once persons start actually to notice it, the tear gas, or, these days, the pepper spray and tasers come out.