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To My European Friends

John deGroot — Fri, 18 May 2012 13:09:23 GMT

Here in America...
   Most of us spend half our time lost atop Mount Maslow in a hopeless quest for More ... which explains our growing anger..
   While the other half of our lives are addicted to the flickering images on the wall in Plato's Cave... which explains our growing fear.
   All of which makes us increasingly dangerous to both ourselves and the rest of the world.
  Especially since so many of us believe God is with us in our American jihad against Evil.

Unknown Unknowns

John deGroot — Thu, 17 May 2012 17:13:15 GMT

Why are cows funny...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMyWtUcTNGM

But people are not?

http://www.youporn.com/watch/119969/me-and-my-girlfriend-jenn-doggy-style/?from=search_full&pos=13

Question du Jour

John deGroot — Mon, 14 May 2012 12:09:55 GMT

  Why are farts funny?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg9eZxpV3VA

*NOTE: Do not miss the ad featured in
        the above youtube segment!

Life Lesson from Papa

John deGroot — Sun, 13 May 2012 23:41:45 GMT

   I spent more than a decade living with the ghost of Ernest Hemingway.
And this is what he taught me:

The answers to the questions of life's morning almost never work for the questions posed by the afternoon of life.

Which is how and why Papa blew his brains out with both barrels of his favorite shotgun at 61.
                                            John deGroot

Metaphores from Dystopia - #2

John deGroot — Sun, 13 May 2012 02:25:01 GMT

      Sometimes
    Words Fail

Sex, dogs, ghosts & journalism

John deGroot — Fri, 11 May 2012 12:52:20 GMT

    Bolla-Sousa                    Trischitta
   Animal Abuser?          Journalism Abuser?

   Ain't every day you get to tell a ghost story.
   And so....
   It’s been 12 years since I quit the newspaper game.
   And while I still miss what newspapers used to be during my glory days as a reporter, I hardly miss the horrific mess the news game has become.
   For me, the problem has been the sordid shift in daily journalism’s understanding of what belongs in a newspaper – and what doesn’t.
   Years ago, for example, I worked for a brilliant Ohio editor publisher named Ben Maidenberg who asked one basic question of any event to determine if it belonged in the newspaper he ran:
   “Is this something our readers need to know?”
   Maidenberg, who came from Russian immigrant stock, lived and breathed the newspaper game as a “calling” that defined his life.
   Further, Ben viewed “his” Akron Beacon Journal as a community institution more than equal to the local school system , hospitals, places of worship and financial institutions servants of the people.
   More than a quarter-century has passed since Ben was laid to rest with his people in the Jewish cemetery at Marion, Indiana where his grandfather first peddled thread and needles door to door to Hoosier farmers in the late 19^th century.
    Now 74 and two years younger than the Ohio publisher was at his death, Ben’s spirit returned to visit me -- having been resurrected by a startling story in the local South Florida Sun-Sentinel:
     Fort Lauderdale man accused
        of having sex with canine.
  A Fort Lauderdale man was arrested Sunday and accused of knowingly having sexual contact with a pet dog named Mimi.
“Jesus Goddam Christ,” roared Ben’s ghost from the grave. “What kind of idiot asshole would put shit like in their newspaper?”
“She’s a reporter named Linda Trischitta,” I told Ben.
   “Well somebody needs to put their foot up her ass and then fire her boss,” Ben snorted.
   Having cheated death countless times as a combat Marine in the Pacific, Ben’s language often raped polite discourse.
Anyhow..
I read on from the Sun-Sentinel’s version of community news in the 21^st century.
Jenson Bolla-Sosa, 28, of Fort Lauderdale, was also charged with cruelty to an animal and resisting arrest without violence.
According to a probable cause affidavit that Broward County first appearance Judge John “Jay” Hurly read aloud Monday, witnesses observed Bolla-Sosa having sex with the dog, and told officers that it was whimpering in pain.
“If that’s this Trischitta broad’s idea of a clean sentence, then I’m a blue-assed baboon,” Ben announced. “Where the hell was the Sun-Sentinel’s goddam copy desk?”
   “I think all that’s mostly done with computers,” I said, before reading on.
When it seemed that Hurley would deny bond, Assistant Public Defender Terry Conover said Bolla-Sosa had no prior record.
   “We have serious cases here, judge, that involve the abuse of women or the amuse of men, of human beings, and they are able to post bond,” Conover said. “The facts of this case are not good. But comparing it the abuse of a human being is not as significant.”
   Hurley disagreed.
   “I think abuse of an animal in certain circumstances can be just as significant and troubling,” Hurley said.
    “Tell hell with animal abuse,” Ben grumbled. “That kind of bullshit reporting is an abuse of the First Amendment.”
    With which I could not argue.
    Especially since I was being yelled at by a truly pissed off ghost.

Metaphors from Dystopia - #1

John deGroot — Thu, 10 May 2012 12:17:44 GMT

   My on-going thesis is simple enough:
The increasingly unfathomable complexity of our daily lives has resulted in a paradigm shift from Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock to Future Psychosis.
   Future Shock, as Toffler wrote in 1970, a Western Cultural response “too much change in too short a period of time” – which spawns a rising tide of shattering "stress and disorientation” in both the individual and society.
     However...
    Today’s hairless ape is drowning in a tsunami of information, with the Known Unknowns of the 21^st Century having reached quantum proportion -- resulting, as Yeats predicted, in a center that can no longer hold.
    All of which explains the current (and growing) tsunami of bewildering social anomalies like:
    Government as the enemy.
  Fear of the educated elite.
    When excess equals success.
    And parents want to be siblings
    The adoration of mediocrity.
    Growing cults enraptured by childish superstition.
    How the poor have it coming.
    Jingoistic nationalism as a response to a global economy.
    All of which serve as an introduction to the first in a series of Metaphors* From Dystopia.
    Like photography by:
                                           Larry Clark

                             Tina Barney

Israel's 64th Birthday - #3

John deGroot — Thu, 10 May 2012 12:17:02 GMT

Irony from Hell

Today’s grandchildren of the holocaust have created a nation devoted to ethnic purity --- while forcing their un-chosen Palestinian neighbors to live in Israeli-built walled ghettos.

Israel's 64th Birthday - #2

John deGroot — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:28:05 GMT

    LOL!
(Get yours for the Party)

      *Popular pregnant Arab
   woman shirts going fast!

On Israel's 64th Birthday

John deGroot — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:30:43 GMT

Abuse An Arab Today!

Brave New World Redux

John deGroot — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 14:07:32 GMT

      Sharon Needles
     Reality Always
   Trumps "Normal"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcEyihTYh-A

Brave New World

John deGroot — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 22:41:56 GMT

Dog Nail Polish

Perspective....

John deGroot — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 18:44:46 GMT

Abbey and Brittany
Conjoined Twins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZUzi0RhBpM&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkKWApOAG2g&feature=related

Warning!

John deGroot — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 15:25:28 GMT

Left Brain
Amuck!

"A little less than angels...."

John deGroot — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 15:24:38 GMT

Mr. Pregnant
"I got titties like a woman"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr6lqKGdgXE

What's a girl to do...?

John deGroot — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 14:51:18 GMT

     "Ralph's into saving
  my belly button lint!"

Act Now...

John deGroot — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 14:50:51 GMT

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Question duh jewr!

John deGroot — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 13:56:50 GMT

Getting Any?

Feeling blue...?

John deGroot — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 13:30:56 GMT

   Being really depressed,
I got into bed and pulled
the covers over me head.
        But then me farted.

Good news and....

John deGroot — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 13:30:21 GMT

The Bad News:
Depression's a sign of intelligence.
The Good News:
Depression's a sign of intelligence.