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Today's Welfare Cheat

Chris Hayes may be the smartest guy on the TV box right now.

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Poe's Law

Per RationalWiki:

Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing.

Poe's Corollary:

It is impossible for an act of Fundamentalism to be made that someone won't mistake for a parody.

Poe's Paradox:

In any fundamentalist group, a paradox exists where any new person (or idea) sufficiently fundamentalist to be accepted by the group is likely to be so ridiculous that they risk being rejected as a parodist (or parody).

Micro Sculpture

Willard Wigan does some pretty amazing things.

Today's Quote

"Knot by knot I untie myself from the past
And let it rise away from me like a balloon.
What a small thing it becomes.
What a bright tweak at the vanishing point, blue on blue."

— Charles Wright, closing lines to “Arkansas Traveller,” from The Other Side of the River (Vintage Books, 1984)

The Carrie Prank

Remember back in the 70s, when The Exorcist came out, and suddenly there was a whole rasher of "real life" stories (planted by the PR guys) that popped up in newspapers - about mysterious and unexplained behaviors that just maybe might be possibly "demon possessions"?

Well, taking it up several levels:



What do you think you can't be manipulated into believing?

hat tip = All In with Chris Hayes

Prophecy

From Paddy Chayefsky's Network (1976):



ARTHUR JENSEN:
"And I have chosen you, Mr Beale, to preach this evangel."

HOWARD BEALE:
"Why me?"

ARTHUR JENSEN:
"Because you're on television, dummy."

hat tip = Democratic Underground

Today's Toon

Clay Bennett's the greatest.

Music

Live from Daryl's House, with Dave Stewart - Heart of Stone:



(I couldn't find it on Amazon)

At The Nexus

...of dreams and reality - yeah, OK it's pretty obviously a little Twilight Zoney, but damn if this ain't impressive either way.