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Entry: The Origins of the Pod People Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_origins_of_the_pod_people#9374 Post contents: There is something terminally enervating about these so-called Neo-Conservative Intellectuals. They put me of mind of a locked library where everyone is aware there might be great stores of knowledge inside but it's been locked up anyhow for good reason. Crusading Jews, Christians....it really does not matter a whit to these Neo-Gomer Pyle Templars and their substitution of "Islamofascism" for Relics of the Cross and the Holy Grail. Simply put, their vitriol and paranoia sells and sells big, always has. They are the reliable factotums for a multinational arms industry that has an insatiably prurient interest in finding hazard everywhere. Unfortunately, with this current round of Empire vs. Non-Empire, hazard is produced with the cheerful regularity of a Ford Assembly Line. Would that internal combustion engines could run on manic invective....then again, Greenland might melt in a fortnight. Too bad they are what pass for "intellectuals" in this petulant age. What I wouldn't do for a good old fashioned Benny Devoto or Mencken or Dorothy Parker quipping that she was "too f****ing busy, or vice versa". A few days ago, as reported or referred to by Antiwar.com , one of the geniuses in the Department of Homeland Security asserted that we Americans need to adjust our definition of "privacy" to meet the demands of the current "age of teror". Without a merest hint of irony in his voice, he asserted that it as more important that the government protect our anonymity than it was to preserve our right to privacy. This reminded me of Devoto challenging J.Edgar Hoover to a Public Debate "anytime, anywhere". I don't believe anybody in our own polite and idiotic age said anything at all to our Government Protector of Anonymity and the Pursuit of Defendyness. At least the thinking mans drinkers and typers of an earlier America had a well developed sense of humor, something in critical lack of supply these days. My ma Babs used to say "a good sense of humor was a sure sign of intelligence". By this measure and with the Charlatans Rudy and Hillary at large, this may go down as the absolute stupidest generation in America...driven there completely on purpose instead of drifting there by happy accident like we used to. And by the way, guffawing horse laughs on cue or leering grins do not a sense of humor make. Sent at: 2008 11 22