Irreverently Relevant

Thus was the malodorous ghost of communism ressurected in the most stupid way last night (Jan 8, 2023), and by the most stupid people with the most stupid of ideological beliefs. The ghouls of Jan 6, 2021 were also awoken last night in Brasilia, albeit in an equally pathetic manner.  Rule one: don't be stupid in public; rule two: don't spread your stupidity like marmite on toast.  Seriously though, life is not as complex as either a pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD), or a Roux-en-Y lateral pancreaticojejunostomy. Get up, do something productive, stuff your gob, take a good shit, go to bed, et al. yelling your lungs off will not materialize your beliefs Bullshit is, unfortunately, like a religion - there are fools in Brazil who believe that there is a communist threat in the country. This is a phalanx of the far-right that lives and thrives in an alternate reality. They swallow fables faster than bukakke actresses from right wing news outlets, sans fact-checking. Perhaps...

Brexit: the sound a racist hemmorhoid makes. Maybe, maybe not, but surely a rabid sense if nationalism did play an outsized role in Brexit, the 2016 US elections, the growth of the neo-nazi NDP in Germany, the explosion of religions nationalism in Poland, the rise of Fidesz and Orban in Hungary, among other oddly comical social expressions of nationalism. Are they racist? Mostly, and they tend to align closely with a loose christian association. Yeah, the KKK as an example espouses "Judeo-Christian values" while being pretty much anti anything "Judeo." Why do these fools hate Jews so much anyway? Wouldn't that negate their so-called christian lifestyle?  Wasn't the Jesus they so warmly speak of not a Jew? The only thing more two-faced than overt nationalism and fascism is, if course, racism. It simply doesn't make much sense, and is by default, absolutely senseless. As is tribalism of every creed. Tribalism was especially deviously applied in principle b...