You know it’s a sign of “the end” when The New York Times® and Time Magazine® earn a link in our blog due to our accusing them of truth telling (for once!)  This short blog has a very interesting surmise.

How To Vote On California’s Props: Your Best 2008 Voter Guide

Those same goodness-bereft Visigoths who typically hate the superior values of The BS Show® are sure to fulminate with predictably bilious and characteristic threats when they, in the words of Jack Nicholson’s turn at The Joker, “…get a load of this!” A very animated Bjorn and Shawn accessibly breakdown the impassioned and amorphous harangues (and subterfuge) behind the dozen California state propositions, essentially doing all the work for any who subscribe to, or fight for, Goodness, Beauty, And Truth. Unafraid of the constraints and glories afforded by humility and rigor, your co-hosts rock through an entertaining discussion with august flair, and a fair portion of probity. Grab your voter info pamphlets and a pen.

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One telling way to evaluate a given culture’s values is to merely note with acuity and humility the list of pop culture invectives it tosses around most frequently over a given period of time.

Along the same lines as an earlier column where I asked why we as a culture seem to have no psychologically approved pejoratives for those whose alleged OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) has them engaging in all manner of repetitive evil or incompetence (versus those who are doing good, like, triple checking the front door locks, say, for the security of loved ones, for example), I now have a pressing, similar question which I’ve not heard mentioned elsewhere:  ”Control freak” sounds so negative; what exactly is the opposite of the often-alleged, and much maligned control freak?

To get us started the following example will be instructive:  Recent discussions among members of a local music act concerning its overall direction found that those who want little or no leadership (or “control”) to interfere with their individual senses of “artistry” used the term “control freaks” as an attack against those attempting to coalesce the group’s talents in a deliberate direction to escalate its overall excellence and appeal.  These same critics never saw fit to inveigh similarly against their own “controlling” efforts to influence the group’s path, albeit in divergent directions. Now, for the big DCQ (daunting cultural question), courtesy of TheBSshow.com®: How is one of these competing forces less invasive, less leading, (i.e. less “controlling”) than the other?  Answer:  Twenty-first century humans are stupid, underdeveloped, and immensely prideful. Oh, and, the two are not different — each of the competing contingencies is essentially vying to have its own way. Thus, the opposite of a control freak is a control freak.

This ubiquitous, perception-related, malady of judgment which we have foisted upon ourselves, is, at the least, logically contradictory if not downright duplicitous. It diminishes honesty and the pursuit of clarity and order. That cannot be good for fans of Goodness, can it? Or for those starving to bask in its benefits.

Where does such broad acceptance of obfuscation come from and why are we (and by “we” I mean everyone except me, and possibly Bjorn, co-hosts of The BS Show® and TheBSshow.com®) so often such suckers for it?  I’m going to pretend that I don’t want to know.

But you, dear open minded follower of The BS Show With Bjorn And Shawn® may help, though, to ameliorate this rampant sickness. Start by confronting those anarchy freaks, anything goes freaks, trippy dippy hippie freaks, and the me-myself-and-I freaks in your circles on a case by case basis and insisting they explain how (and perhaps apologize for) their habit of disparaging others with the toothless defensiveness of this infantile pejorative “control freak” helps them, their discourse, or the course of human events.  

If they call you a name instead of addressing the argument, it may be that the effects of left-leaning fanaticism are blocking their progress toward Goodness, such that, your most commensurate rejoinder may be, “I know you are but what am I?” 

The Whitehouse, White Trash, And Your Inner Dirt Bag: “When Suffrage Causes Suffering” or “Was Rosa Parks Divisive?”

In the boys’ first porchcast of The BS Show® since switching to daylight savings time, Bjorn and Shawn not only take notice that none of the six definitions culled from the four sources on dictionary.com characterizes the term white trash as racist (but hey, “education’s the key” at least according to most of the geniuses many of us kowtow to) but they question the dangerous, pretty sounding platitudes bandied about by all manner of registered goobers, uh, we mean, voters just one day before a major American election. Pay as much attention to what matters most as Bjorn and Shawn do, on this iconoclastic porchcast of The BS Show.®

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The entrepreneurs at eHarmony.com have finally been strong armed into submission by The Almighty (the Almighty State of New Jersey, that is). It turns out those “open minded,” happy go lucky “multiculturalists” who run New Jersey, The State, have made it oppressively clear just how far that ostensible open mindedness rhetoric goes, and even more clear just who is really in charge of eHarmony’s target market, expertise, and overall mission. 

In a spirited and invigorating exchange co-hosts of The BS Show®, Bjorn and Shawn, presume to advise eHarmony.com and its putative leader, Dr. Neil Clark Warren, how best not to back down to these punitive purveyors of postmodernity. Bjorn and Shawn also presume to directly question those totalitarian despots who have now bullied into position as eHarmony’s de facto boss. (By the way, if you doubt that your business is next please reexamine the tell-tale signs which lead up to Kristallnacht. Or simply default to a sheepishness as obtuse and inhumane as Sheryl Crow’s defense philosophy. Either way have a great show everyone — while it lasts.)

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Biden-Palin Debate Precipitates Biggest Fight Ever Between Co-hosts Bjorn & Shawn. But First They Welcome Author Robert L. Park

Meet first-time guest of The BS Show, author and near-killer-as-a-kid, Robert L. Park, during the first two segments of this week’s porchcast.

Then invite your pals, left and right alike, to watch and learn as counter-cultural denizens of Deep Hope, Bjorn and Shawn wax august in the hauntingly honest (and superior) ideological ambiance which is The BS Show.  Yours, courtesy of a dogged and unapologetic pursuit of Goodness, Beauty And Truth.

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On the morning of September 4th, 2008 I heard a nationally syndicated radio personality emphatically sum up Sarah Palin as a “corrupt unknown.” Anyone with a wisp of wisdom who observed her speech knows that this host chooses to be so severely addled by something dark and unreasonable that it would just begin to suffice to call him ideologically (and morally) retarded. Score one point for low culture.

Example two:  That evening I read an article about a married couple in Blue Mound, Texas who, after having defended themselves and their children at their own residence against two armed invaders, “probably wouldn’t be charged” by investigators. Probably wouldn’t be?  The couple shot both intruders WITH THE INTRUDERS’ own guns, killing one of them, but only AFTER these all-too-human dirtbags (sorry, Charles Darwin) broke into the couples’ home.

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