American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them. |
Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty / as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it. |
Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty / as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it. |
Animal rights activists gives disillusioned feminists an excuse to go back to being women protecting wee creatures without compromising their radical credentials |
Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor. Humor inspires sympathetic good-natured laughter and is favored by the ''healing-power'' gang. Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down. |
Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold concept of heaven, its literal-mindedness, its rambunctious good cheer... its anti-intellectualism... its puerile hymns... and its faith-healing... are made to order for King Kid America. |
Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism. |
Democracy: The Crude leading the Crud |
During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs. |
Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other |
Golf is tiddlywinks played while standing up and and wearing a hat |
He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood. |
I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home. |
Judge not, lest ye be judged judgmental |
Lacking ladylike poison, Lizzie (Borden) did what every over-civilized, understated Wasp is entirely capable of doing once we finally admit we're mad as hell and aren't going to take it any more: She went from Anglo to Saxon in a trice |