Man! Dude! Session #133

(M)an: Dude! The private sector that Representative Paul Ryan’s budget proposal entrusts with our futures are a pack of tightwads that include personalities like the ones on display in author Craig 

Brown’s latest nonfiction work Hello Goodbye Hello.

(D)ude: Man! If Paul Ryan’s The Path To Posterity gets passed, the United States Congressional Republicans will have reduced this democracy into a televangelist timocracy.

M: Dude! The Televangelist Timocracy of the United States of America is what we are with this Republican-inflicted sequestration.

D: Man! I know! This elderly woman tried to convert me to whatever denomination of Christianity she was trying to promote. Wouldn’t public displays of holiness be considered panhandling and solicitation?

M: Dude! The elderly lady probably was just being customarily kind and the string of crucifixes around her wrist were entirely meant to provide her with the comfort and presence of faith.

D: Man! The only public display of holiness I offer on my time is prayer. Did you know I had temporarily suspended my Roman Catholic practices after Pope John Paul passed away in 2005?

M: Dude! Can you suspend faith? And if so, where and when did you return to Roman Catholicism?

D: Man! That’s just it! Within the Televangelist Timocracy of the United States, the biblical edict of not even being able to reveal to your other hand that which you give willingly with the other will end. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor makes a lot of televised proclamations about the people in Virginia who have benefitted from his limited collaborative endeavors as the Representative for District 7. He speaks with the characteristic countertenor frenzy of a Republican Party male.

M: Dude! The countertenor frenzy goes well with the fact that these guys really are desperate right now to keep their majority status in the House and their filibustering mechanics in the Senate via deliberate Republican redistricting efforts to marginalize the diversifying majority demographically and Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.

D: Man! The Washington Post’s website is planning to charge people like US whenever we exceed perusing 20 articles. And the announcement comes just in time for the 2013/2014-midterm elections cycle. This is awful! It just makes US come nearer to the founding of the Televangelist Timocracy that the GOP wants!

M: Dude! Pat Robertson and Madonna Ciccone concern me. Both are flourishing in these times of uncertainties for the poor and working classers, yet their personal finances are tighter than the navy Boy Scouts uniform that Ciccone donned over the weekend at the GLAAD awards.

D: Man! Pat Robertson invited the author of Sex and God at Yale to discuss the book, yet Robertson knew more about the book’s subtitle, Porn, Political Correctness, and a Good Education Gone Bad, than the author!

M: Dude! Were you watching The 700 Club again? How many times do I have to tell you not to delve into Christian Broadcasting Network’s lineup of programming?

D: Man! I even sat through the next half hour just to see how Pat Robertson would maneuver himself out of the uncalled for delineation of inappropriate theatrics in seventies movies.

M: Dude! Talking about inappropriate theatrics, Madonna Ciccone always references the dance pioneer Martha Graham as a force of nature and one of her idols. Yet, Craig Brown’s book reveals how Ciccone reduced Graham to tears in 1991. It’s incredibly Tea Party-like behavior on Madonna’s end.

D: Man! And? What took place between the two dynamic powerhouses?

M: Dude! Madonna is recalled stating in a memoir about her brief first encounter with the celebrated 

dancer as being overwhelming yet wordless.

D: Man! Did Madonna attend the Martha Graham Dance School?

M: Dude! She took classes there, yes. However, ten years later, Ciccone having enough years of fame and success, her office receives a call for financial donations from the Martha Graham Dance School that is now facing bankruptcy. Madonna’s reply is curt and cold, “Give it one day.”

D: Man! How much did Madonna give to the Martha Graham School?

M: Dude! The next day the superstar’s office offered 150,000 dollars. Can you believe that? Can you imagine a world with people like Ciccone comprising the private sector that Paul Ryan hypes up?

D: Man! I agree! It’s incredibly Tea Party-like behavior on Madonna’s end!

M: Dude! Televangelist Timocracy reminds me of the news about Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe having arrived in Italy today for Pope Francis’ Official Installment tomorrow.

D: Man! Ora pro nobis!

M: Dude! Wow! Pray for us!

D: Man! So how did Martha Graham react to Madonna Ciccone’s effrontery?

M: Dude! Martha Graham was then ninety-four-years-old and reduced to tears of upset.

D: Man! Come to think of it, Madonna Ciccone is the kind to upset someone else’s pride deliberately for egoism. Therefore, hers was an affront to the ace choreographer.

M: Dude! What about the affront to the working class poor like US that Eric Cantor insists upon in the guise of so-termed spending cuts?

D: Man! Technological advancement makes everything cheaper and better overall. But technological advancement has brought an evolution to the way the United States fights wars. It is the way first world countries will be fighting from now on, with drones instead of sacrificing our sons and daughters in uniform. That also means that the Republican trend to deploy the military into high-risk areas, thus causing another crisis amongst military families and friends and communities that the GOP thrives upon, is not going to be trending on the Obama Administration’s watch.

M: Dude! The psychological warfare that the GOP is subjecting US to through sequestration is outrageous.