Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Freija - ^^^ for the win!

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The Biden-Trump debate hall is next to a frat house, where they were partying under a sign that reads...




Do not fret grasshopper

For you have learned

The Art of the Deal...




June 27, 1912: Playwright Richard Collier arrived in 1912, after using self-hypnosis to travel from the year 1972. Good time travel concept in a romance film.




June 27, 1964: Ernest Borgnine and Ethel Merman were married. The union lasted 38 days. Ethel Merman's 1978 autobiography devoted one blank page to her brief marriage to Ernest Borgnine. LOL!




June 27, 1982: Space Shuttle Columbia launched up, up, and away to float among the stars on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4.


On Day 2, the wake-up call for STS-4 was "Up, Up, and Away" by The 5th Dimension. Wake-up calls usually had a special meaning to the astronauts onboard or were related to their day's activities.


LOL, MTV had a news site?


MTV News website scrubbed from the internet

My imagination tells me MTV went down the toilet like 30 years ago.


Patterns...

ComedyCentral.com, had been home to clips from every episode of "The Daily Show" since 1999, and the entire run of "The Colbert Report," but as of today, the site is gone. Poof! Nothing more to see here.


25+ Years of Daily Show Clips Gone as Paramount Axes Comedy Central Site

Why are they doing this and why now? During election year. An alternative reason is they removed the archives so their intellectual property isn't being used to train AI models. Once they get legislation around AI it will likely return. And also for their own competing AI coming out soon. Everything will be fake, digital renditions of Hollywood garbage.


"For while we can look with a suitably detached repugnance at the excesses of the witch mania of the Renaissance, we still possess authoritarian structures in our society served by dedicated and sincere men. We are not ourselves transparently immune to the psychological predisposition to judicial carnage."

— Marianne Rodker, in the introduction to a 1968 translation of the Malleus Maleficarum found in a British thrift store.

Malleus Maleficarum, usually translated as The Hammer of Witches, is the best known treatise on witchcraft.

It was written by the German Catholic clergyman Heinrich Kramer, and first published in the German city of Speyer in 1486. It has been described as the compendium of literature in demonology of the 15th century.

The top theologians of the Inquisition at the Faculty of Cologne condemned the book as recommending unethical and illegal procedures, as well as being inconsistent with Catholic doctrines of demonology. The Malleus elevates sorcery to the criminal status of heresy, and recommends that secular courts prosecute it as such.

The Malleus suggests torture to effectively obtain confessions, and the death penalty as the only certain remedy against the evils of witchcraft. At the time of its publication, heretics were frequently sentenced to be burned alive at the stake, and the Malleus encouraged the same treatment of witches.

If anyone is interested here's a Malleus Maleficarum Audiobook (22 hours, in English)


Anyone not see this coming...


69 Democrats call for opening pathways to Palestinian refugees

Memorandum on the Deferred Enforced Departure for Certain Palestinians

And here's the list of those 69 democrats who signed the letter

There are 22 Arab nations. They haven’t taken in a single Gazan.
What could 22 Arab nations possibly know that Congresswoman Parmesan Jayapal does not?

Jordan was the only country to take a significant number of them in back in the 1960's. Then they had the black September civil war when the PLO tried to take over the country. Since then Jordan has made it clear that they are verboten!


Guess who...




THE SEEKER

I SOUGHT for my happiness over the world,
Oh, eager and far was my quest;
I sought it on mountain and desert and sea,
I asked it of east and of west.
I sought it in beautiful cities of men,
On shores that were sunny and blue,
And laughter and lyric and pleasure were mine
In palaces wondrous to view;
Oh, the world gave me much to my plea and my prayer
But never I found aught of happiness there!

Then I took my way back to a valley of old
And a little brown house by a rill,
Where the winds piped all day in the sentinel firs
That guarded the crest of the hill;
I went by the path that my childhood had known
Through the bracken and up by the glen,
And I paused at the gate of the garden to drink
The scent of sweet-briar again;
The homelight shone out through the dusk as of yore
And happiness waited for me at the door!

- by Lucy Maud Montgomery


Zager and Evans - In The Year 2525 (1969) (seems more relevant today)