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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Should a dirty nuke go off in Los Angeles and only one analysis about this weekend’s “thug throwing shoes at a sitting U.S. President” incident be recoverable in its aftermath, I hope for the sake of any good people who survive, that it will be this one. Consider its inescapable poignancy:

The infantile Arab extremist (and member of that exalted field of “objective” journalism) who deceitfully, and in quick succession, whipped two shoes at President Bush’s head in an otherwise civilized setting, can only be said to have logically been celebrating that very president! Here’s why: any of us able to look away from the nattering, often juvenile Circus News Network for five seconds (to engage our minds rather than surrender them) will notice that this maniacal Iraqi bully demonstrated to the utmost his newly provided privilege of being able to protest in the middle east (albeit, in that backwoods, ignoble, all-too-middle-eastern, gutter-level style) without fear of summary execution or beheading by the absolute, fascist iron hand wielded by one Saddam Hussein or the like. Amazing!!!

Not only had this misguided monkey of a shoe-throwing visigoth (and inadvertent celebrant of politcal freedom) previously avoided inclusion as politically incorrect carrion in one of Iraq’s myriad mass graves (discovered only during the “occupation”) but he was now proving his own ease of access to even the crudest form of dissent by physically attacking the very man who was key to furnishing that privilege in the first place. Wow! No wonder we at The BS Show® are not dopey enough to agree that “all cultures are equal.”

We are, however, dopey enough to ask all manner of apoplectic, lefty dunderheads — our friends included — to explain their way out of this, without hating us, without hating the conclusion of logic, and without resorting to vapid manipulations which so often leave extreme lefties (and, at times, maniacal righties) feeling good about fatuous talking points which further diminish (and endanger) humanity’s well being.

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Somehow we at The BS Show® ended up on this smart blogger’s email list. Now, for any fans of that faux brand of political ecumenism proffered by the likes of The United Nations, Leslie Sacks has posted a column which will serve as a sobering primer on the UN’s recently adopted speech prohibitions. It’s especially worth reading for any of us who is, as yet, so underdeveloped that he or she admires or even displays one of those callow and platitudinous bumper stickers which uses “religious” symbols to spell out the very rigid preachment: “COEXIST.”

During our search for the “right” version of said sticker online we suddenly realized that the present age’s beautiful (and coercive) acceptance of multiculturalism and of “all views,” rendered any of our judgmental, black-and-white, intolerant discernment unnecessary. Pheewwww, thank gods. Or thank Dear Leader. Or not. (It would depend on the whims of The U.N.)

[ Special thanks to Tom McMahon for a creative and perspicuous derivation of said sticker which pays dangerous new-age softies the compliment of taking them at their word. And to Gilbert Chesterton for enlightening us, in general, as to how to more often confront libertine inanity with morally informed eloquence and logic. ]

You simply cannot know everything about everything if you are merely human and mortal. This is one of the axioms we often offer to fans and friends who sometimes complain that we at The BS Show® are over their heads (and sometimes “in over our own”) to encourage them to keep learning and growing. Yet there are far reaching events within life’s major categories with which most of us must be somewhat familiar (and teach to our children) in order to function more wisely.

One of those events, Kristallnacht, or Night Of Broken Glass, was part of a Nazi pogrom in Germany in 1938. On a single November night, almost 100 Jews were murdered, and 28,000 or so were arrested and confined in concentration camps as those racist thugs of Naziism went marching through the streets exacting a part of Adolph Hitler’s vile anti-Semitic policies. In an historic display of humanity’s capacity for the inhumane, Kristallnacht saw the destruction of thousands of Jewish businesses and homes as well as more than 200 synagogues.

On its 70th anniversary a colleague forwarded to us this video segment by Los Angeles area TV station KTLA. After viewing the piece I wrote the following reply to our colleague making the case that KTLA’s effort inadvertently did more harm than good. The nature of my argument will hopefully serve to provide “gettable” basic building blocks for our fans who, prior to discovering The BS Show,® might have been more or less unaccustomed to the clarity and power of no-holds-barred analysis and the pragmatic ramifications of worldview.*

Dear [name withheld]:

I was initially glad and very impressed that anyone in mainstream pop media would actually run a story on such a consequential and fundamentally wrong historical act. But KTLA’s handling of it, in the big picture, actually diminished the travesty and import of Kristallnacht. Here’s why:  

I would suggest that our culture’s fanatical devotion to relativism (replete with its stealth but far-reaching practice of a very fuzzy, self-serving type of so-called “tolerance”) severely limited KTLA’s intended mission. Setting aside the hostess’ failure to even learn to pronounce Kristallnacht correctly, or consistently, I was most taken aback by Mrs. Cohen’s response as to its significance: “… it started with discriminatory measures, turned neighbor against neighbor, and it marginalized a small percentage of the population into ‘the other.’  It’s important to cherish our democracy and to really be mindful of any act of discrimination.” This nice lady is an expert? Did she say any act of discrimination?

Apparently unable, or unwilling (or unaware of how?) to parse the matter using the clarity afforded by morally clear language (i.e. mass murdering, racist genocide, evil, absolutely wrong), KTLA’s “historical expert” on the matter gave the viewership a shallow set of platitudinous and relativistic axioms which, in actual practice would, for example, incrementally make unnecessary the need for any police, judges, or jails in any age. It is an indisputable fact of life that all laws discriminate. Think about it. Most of that discrimination is very good at least in present day America, where most of us happen to show a pragmatic adherence to an understanding and acceptance of “good versus evil” simply by how we live. 

For example, in a reasonably sane society convicted pedophiles are justifiably and swiftly “marginalized, and held to be ‘the other.’”  Would Ms. Cohen’s worldview ask us not to deem their evil/unlawful actions bad, while we deem our abrogative actions against their behavior “good.”  In a separate instance, though it might turn “neighbor against neighbor” were my wife to rightfully testify against the man on  our own street for extorting 50 million dollars from the museum, the very decent will be so glad upon his conviction for a healthy (good) moral standard, which protects, serves, AND limits, that they will not even think to regret that JUSTICE started with “discriminatory measures, turned neighbor against neighbor, and it marginalized a small percentage of the population into ‘the other.’ ” Of course, other pragmatic and frightening examples would be myriad.

Moreover, Ms. Cohen’s subsequent genuflection of “democracy” without subsequent qualification should’ve at least been followed by Dennis Prager’s perennial foundational query: “Which is more important: democracy or Goodness?”  That one question handled with any seriousness at all would have done much more to raise meaningful questions and discourse (not to mention recognition of inescapable moral and ethical realities) which might help prevent the next Kristallnacht, than the “cute” and fuzzy feeling, but ultimately dangerous segment KTLA offered. 

None of us has all the answers but we should all wish that this race, the human race, could more often recognize a misleadingly vapid substitute. Even when it is well meant. 

[ *Worldview is a word which might also be called "life philosophy," or sense of life, or convictions, or macro narrative, or even "faith." Every volitional human who's ever lived had, or has, a worldview which he or she practices (and often attempts to "sell" to others). By way of example, Bill Maher,  Oprah,  Rick Warren, Hilary, and Katie Couric: each of them has (and pushes) his or her own worldview. As do Peter Jennings, Rosie, Deepak, Ted Turner, James Dobson, Spike Lee, Moby, Stephen J. Gould, David Letterman, Michael Martin, Barbara Walters,  Studs Terkel, Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn Manson, Al Franken, Hitler, Tom Cruise, Rikki Lake, yours truly, and, of course, you. Moreover, if humility and logic had a tongue they would assure us that "worldviews have consequences" and that individual worldviews are no more "equal" than are the abilities of individual basketball players. ]

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There are going to be consequences from ideas, even when those ideas derive from an Adolph Hitler, a John Dewey, Cicero, Margaret Sanger, Winston Churchill, or Mother Teresa. The ideas taught in U.S. public schools yesterday have, not so amazingly, manifested in the public squares of today, as today’s will tomorrow. Good or bad or in between, like it or not, Mayor Newsom.

Whether we are talking about the twisted “tolerance” stampede and its bullying campaign of vengeful, theist-hating, maniacally militant, pro-gay extremism, or that harsh, outspoken Christophobe, Bill Maher, or the stealth, misleading, secular fundamentalism infesting seemingly every precinct of the U.S. public school curricula, or even the shun-and-crush-Christmas movement, what better ground in which to plow the seeds of a given ideology one hopes to proliferate than that fertile, unguarded openness of a child’s mind.

As Christmas approaches once again, co-hosts of the world’s number one porchcast, Bjorn and Shawn, discuss the motives, realities, and inescapable repercussions of the social engineering being feverishly administered by the vast majority of U.S. public schools. Prepare to lament, and to prepare yourself as you take in another impertinent installment (posted in reverse order this week) of a little number we call The BS Show.®

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