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.

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?” 

Examine The Nastiness And Constraints Of That Most Wonderfully Evolved Of All Races And Its Unrelenting Propensity For Dangerous Stampedes. On This Dec. 03, 2008 Unedited Porchcast Of The BS Show® With Bjorn And Shawn.

Many kinds of extremists are taken to task in this episode of the world’s number one porchcast sometimes called “The Anything Doesn’t Go Show” for good reason. All but the hardest of heart will again realize why that is so by watching this week’s near-Churchillian manifestation of The BS Show® with Bjorn And Shawn.

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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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I just have to opine one more time in 2008:  While just now packing for vacation (a word which, itself, can be code for holiday; which, of course, means Holy day; which, in proximity to Christmas, might imply a specific Christian holy day. In fact, Christmas really means Christ Mass, which itself means Messiah Celebration, so, no wonder the anti-Christian bigots at large love to hate any mention of a Merry Christmas in the public square with that most mollifying contempt which can only be the work of good old evolved “humanity”) I over heard a few minutes of a Michael Medved interview (author of the new book The 10 Big Lies About America: Combating Destructive Distortions About Our Nation) poignantly summarizing several of those alleged lies. Wow!

I’m going to suggest that Medved’s book be required reading not only for the polymathic co-hosts of The BS Show® but for each and every caller and emailer contacting the world’s number one porchcast, The BS Show®. Incredible. 

I’ve gotta get back to packing but all manner of registered voters — especially those who boast of their open mindedness — are hereby implored to make The 10 Big Lies About America one of 12 books you’ll buy and read in 2009. If it turns out that those aforementioned open minds are imbued with a bit of humility and thirst for wisdom, to boot, Medved’s work just might serve to lighten the burden of some of your own baggage. Merry Christmas!!!

As most lefties, libs, secular extremists, and loons will assure you (especially after snubbing  even your most effusive “Merry Christmas” wish) there absolutely is no culture war. Seriously. And I, for one, believe them.

In a totally unrelated story, Oxford University Press has deleted the following words and definitions in the latest edition of its junior dictionary: abbey, aisle, altar, bishop, chapel, christen, disciple, minister, monastery, monk, nun, nunnery, parish, pew, psalm, pulpit, saint, sin, devil, vicar, coronation, duchess, duke, emperor, empire, monarch, bacon, among many others. 

Wait, bacon?!? I certainly hope none of you Islamophobes is now suddenly going to deviate from the PGO* practice propagated by The New York Times, a policy of special interest Sharia, er, I mean, policy of non-specificity which will be exposed as the infantile, misleading, and bigoted bane it is, should The Times begin to feel journalistically competitive about CNN’s Lou Dobbs’ use of specificity via the term “narco-terrorists” on his radio program today. Mr. Dobbs’ was making reference to more present day murderous rampages by Mexico’s drug cartels. Or as The New York Times will no doubt promiscuously “label” them: gunmen, or pharma-fighters. Where’s Sophocles** when you need him?!? 

We at The BS Show should confess that we’re inclined to be open minded about adopting Dobbs’ brand of judgmental bigotry in this regard. 

[ See an incisive video commentary by genius politico Bill Whittle at PJTV or read a more complete account at Telegraph UK. ]

* Profligate Glaze Over (definition of which has been redacted by The BS Show with Bjorn And Shawn®)

** Sophocles is said to have said “It is terrible to speak well and be wrong,” an especially salient and inconvenient remark for those of us who believe eloquence necessarily accompanies intelligence. Unless you happen to be extreme about the PGO.

Remember the scene in Harrison Ford’s old movie where Indiana Jones was scared almost as witless as the film’s audience by the intimidating imposition of a desert-savvy, middle eastern garbed, enemy combatant, of sorts, wielding two glistening swords and threatening to emphasize with immediacy the fragility and brevity of Jones’ earthly mortality?

And remember your great relief when Jones — the film’s good guy — having recalled the loaded handgun on his person just shot the guy? Me, too. I loved it. 

My point is that, in light of the recent Islamic extremist lethality in Mumbai (Bombay), and given the clock-like dependability of human nature to, in the real world, assiduously come up with new recreant expressions of evil — some of which are destructive of innocents and innocence — it will always be in good people’s best interest everywhere that superior fire power reside in the hands of the good guys. Always. 

However, where foolishness and strategic nuttery (think head-in-the-sand pollyannas and pacifists, for example) outweigh palpable quantities of goodness, humility, and reason (hopefully instantiated in the form of law and jurisprudence), uncontroverted danger will persist and metasticize often to needlessly catastrophic proportions. Who wants that? (Hint: Don’t ask PC extremists at the New York Times who can’t or won’t admit the vast, pragmatic differences among an extreme radical like Mother Teresa, an extreme radical like Abu Musab al-Zarquawi, and an extreme radical like Joseph Stalin.) 

In anticipation of the next stealthly scheduled Militant Muslim Mayhem it would be best if the “gooder” among the human race — or at least the less evil — could muster enough courage to finally begin: (1) recognizing the paucity of wisdom which besets us as a race; (2) questioning our unwillingness to accurately judge,* parse, and extirpate the ideas and ideologies which repeatedly foment wanton mass murder; and (3) demanding that our protective personnel be so overwhelmingly equipped by us (in comparison to those passionate, genocidal jihadists just around the corner) that the good guys will not have to fear the lethal embarrassment of bringing a bamboo cane to a machine gun fight.

* Yes, the author knowingly used the word “judge.” If this causes the reader to judge the column differently, or to judge that the author has misjudged, the reader might further judge the merits of retracting any judgments as may be construed to be judgmental. As an adjunct readers are also encouraged to judge that the numbness propagated by the anti-judging zealots in our universities will cause history’s judgment of us to be justifiably pitiless.

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