More Than Just a Potted Plant

Dear Dr. Bones,


Today is one of those days when it is easy enough to pretend that one is engaged in Lit. Crit. rather than just making mock of whightist cripples:

Defining a tax ‘cut’ By Boston Herald Editorial Staff Wednesday, August 15, 2012 - Updated 11 hours ago “Only in Washington, D.C., and the faculty lounge at Harvard does keeping tax rates where they are represent a tax cut.” — Sen. Scott Brown at the South Shore Chamber of Commerce. Yes, the senator does have a way of clarifying the current tax debate on Capitol Hill ... Brown rightly points out ... Brown called for a special summer session of Congress to make sure those tax hikes don’t come back to haunt us while our politicians are on the campaign trail. And that’s a damned (sic</ I> [1]) good idea.

Ad quem responduisset Patricius McTammany

'Tis a pleasure for the student of Neocomradology to watch 'Fingers' Fehrnstrom perform! Eye betsya mere Krelimnologists never had so much fun back in the bad old days. Though the good Marshall might as well have been writing all the glowing reviews of his orations in Pravda and Izvestiya, but on the other hand, he DID actually make the speeches. Fernie has gone the great man one greater: Fernie The Fabulous gets S. Philip Fratboy, warmer of The People's Seat (Pat. Pend.), to speak for him, after which he gets the Jay School fruits and frathouse babes of Louisedayhicksville to applaud what Fernie has spoken. Extremely nifty is that the Master of Ceremonies never appears in person at all. [*] Were this a fairy tale, Paddy and Eye would presume that the Kiddiemaster will now marry Mlle. de la Main Invisible, after which they will both live 'transparently' ever after. Happy Himmelfahrt. [**] --Patrick Aloysius McTammany ____ [*] The Freelord of Fehrnstrom is pioneerin' virgin soil, as it were, far out in the Agitprop Oblast'. Like lesservolks in that line, mistakes may possibly be made--may rather EASILY be made, in fact--when one is always essaying _cose non dette in prosa ancor nè in rima_. It seems to Paddy, though, that Fabulous Fernie got carried away yesterday when he (d.b.a. the Herald fruits an babes) applauded himself (d.b.a. the Fedguv Senator) BEFORE the oratorical event had come to pass. (( Not the ventriloquism act autoapplauded here, but a different (?) one performed before the Randolph 02638 Chambermaids of Commerce, http://j.mp/ObnTLZ )) Paddy can see why maintaining the appearance of strict chronology and cause-always-before-effect might seem not to matter to One who in any case pulls all the strings. In a lot of cases it does not matter: _War and Peace_ would be neither better nor worse if we knew (perhaps we do, but not Eye) that the Borodino part was composed before the Austerlitz part. That would only be a curiosity. However part of Fernie's little joke on everybooby is that the B.H. is a NEWSpaper, which make a little difference for the critic.. The exact same tripe-an-baloney that can pass for news in the afternoon, is only a "press release" if disseminated before noon. [**] http://j.mp/PctXZ3 Happy days.

Happy days.
--JHM


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[1] One may hope that when kiddiecon ‘journalists’ lapse into grown-up swearwords like this it means that the Fearless Funders of Freedumb are startin’ to put the pressure on Kindermeister von Fehrnstrom, who in turn barks an’ bellows at his freelordship’s own hired hands.