Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Man! Dude! Session #181



(M)an: Dude! Jeff Bezos of Amazon purchased The Washington Post for $250 million dollars today and the Koch Brothers are in the prospects of acquiring the Tribune newspapers. I wonder what kind of political affiliations Bezos will build in the upcoming years, besides having started his ascension in the Grey Poupon league of American financiers.  

(D)ude: Man! There’s a Grey Poupon league of American financiers? Very interesting! I always wondered what particular uses there were for maintaining a Rolls Royce automotive or, even more dreadful than that, an entire fleet of such luxury vehicles. But you have answered my question multifold and, I am afraid, I may not have much to say about that particular point you just made as a result of the substantiality of the answer you gave.

M: Dude! The substantiality of the answer I just gave? You’re beginning to sound as if you too have an honorary membership in the Grey Poupon league of American financiers! Knock it off!

D: Man! Do you think we could dress up in those tuxedos that sustained such irreparable damages that the formal wear rental shop owners just threw their hands up in despair and gifted them to us to wash and wear in return for the guarantee that we would not return?

M: Dude! I don’t know about the tuxedos, that wedding was fifteen years ago. And I think, I may be mistaken, that we both are too misshapen to fit ourselves into the otherwise perfect potential costume party garb.

D: Man! You think we’ve gained weight? Yeah, I admit that I cannot comfortably fit into my fitted tees and rely on my loose fitting sports tees. If you by happenchance come across a Texas Occidental Franchise University tee, let me know, okay?

M: Dude! You bought TOFU shirts?

D: Man! No! A couple of guys at work came across some white TOFU tees, the kind that have the tiny emblem close to the chest area, and the quality of the fabric was astonishingly unlike TOFU, cultured and subtle.

M: Dude! I will make sure to spread some Grey Poupon on all the tees’ emblems, no matter how inconspicuous they may be.

D: Man! That’s an excellent idea! Let’s make a Grey Poupon sophisticates-versus-watered down condiments that stay on the restaurant tables untouched by the staff, hence overly caked up and unhygienic as a result.  

M: Dude! Don’t tell that to the conservatives. Let them pour from those grimy glass condiment vials with the eroded ketchup or dressing tops and tips.

D: Man! I’ve been reading the epic slapstick memoir of a father’s final sins entitled After Visiting Friends by Michael Hainey. It is the best summer read thus far.

M: Dude! So what’s it like to read? Have you finished reading it in time for me to read it as well before it’s due back at the public library?

D: Man! I rechecked it just so you could also experience the cleverness within the overall metaphorical angst of the author over not having had his father’s company after the age of  eight years.

M: Dude! It sounds like a promising melody of Lionel Richie’s right before Lionel starts heavily panting his laments. Don’t get me wrong, I anticipate All Night Long or Dancing on the Ceiling before being hunkered down with Hello or Say You, Say Me.   

D: Man! Initially, I thought Michael Hainey should visit my parents. My father would dad him up. There’s an extra bedroom where he would stay with a desk and revolving chair to address plausible epiphanies on paper after entire days with my father. Yeah, my father would dad him well.

M: Dude! You’re father can resuscitate and reenergize the spirits of Kim Jong-un and all four of Mohamed Morsi’s exasperatingly oppressive sons towards the adoption of democratic tomorrows for North Korea and Egypt.

D: Man! Tom Moffett and Natty Bumppo are classic characters out of the pages of Michael Hainey’s late father’s life story. They do not disappoint for even a moment. They actually have the best lines in the entire flick.

M: Dude! It’s nonfiction, right? And it’s a book, yes?

D: Man! No, it’s more like nonfiction left. But, yes, it is a book.

M: Dude! You just lost me there!

D: Man! I’ll be sure to assist you in finding your way around existentially. I promise.

M: Dude! I don’t need existential assistance! If you could just hand over the book sometime before the end of this week, I assure you I will look after myself adequately.

D: Man! Now, are you sure about this? Adequate is not enough for one’s soul’s replenishment.

M: Dude! Enough already!

D: Man! You’re getting very Jong-un and Morsi. Do you want to talk about it?   

M: Dude! What is it?

D: Man! Lionel Richie’s b-sides sure have you in a slump. How about some of Joan Jett’s b-sides?

M: Dude! I know! I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll will jumpstart my existential blasé at the moment.

D: Man! Just tell me when, I’ll schedule you into my father’s schedule.

M: Dude! My father dads me up sufficiently. Enough said.

D: Man! That’s good to hear. Actually, I could use some of your father’s insight. You know what I think he would say? He’d definitely sound off the alarm at the bringing up of such existential malaises like Kim Jong-un and Morsi’s sons.

M: Dude! Dude! Dude!

D: Man! That’s the way! Laugh out and embrace your own a-side anthem! Hey, by the way, would that be Def Leppard’s Pour Some Sugar or Lita Ford’s Kiss Me?

M: Dude! Definitely the latter!

D: Man! Enough said. I prefer the former anyways.

M: Dude! What if the Koch Brothers were to buy Wikipedia? What then?

D: Man! John Boehner would be the man with the answers in Washington, Paul Ryan would be the philosopher extraordinaire, Rand Paul would be the humanitarian, Newt Gingrich will have usurped the Nobel Economics Prize somewhere in current history, and John McCain will have burped up a couple of medallions of peace himself while castigating the disenfranchised, which would never be broadcast. 
Except for Google News, that is.

M: Dude! I cannot imagine living in the world of Koch, especially with Republican Muppets and a segregated Sesame Street where Grover insists upon serving restaurant goers with fly-infested soup deliberately.

D: Man! And Oscar the Grouch being artificially selected in the evolutionary bigotry because Donald Trump likes everything green or gold.

M: Dude! In that case, Big Bird too would be elevated to specialness, hence, perpetuation.

D: Man! A totalitarian regime on Mister Rogers would annihilate the cultural differences and star just 
the princes Tuesday and Wednesday.

M: Dude! Koch would insist on the animal puppetry not be enmeshed with human representations, which would, according to the Grand Old Party, be the precursor of a time of excessive peachy felt everywhere.

D: Man! The infestation of peachy felt frightens me immensely!

M:: Dude! Imagine a world with just yellow yarn!

D: Man! Yikes!

Monday, August 5, 2013

Man! Dude! Session #180


(D)ude: Man! South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham and Democratic Senator from New Jersey Robert Menendez have not learned from the not-too-distant-past and present-day, have they not?

(M)an: Dude! If the Western World is inhibited by Muslim leaders like Assad in Syria and Rouhani in Iran to have Bicoastal Immigrant-American Islamic Scholars attempt to draw up peace treaties that respect the Quranic perspectives of the Muslim World but offer plausible democratic resolutions through open conversation about the diversity within each Abrahamic faith, then how can anybody in the United States Senate even think about giving up on diplomacy and handing our sons and daughters in uniform the weapons of unimaginable pain and sorrows?

D: Man! The United States Congress needs a radical makeover. The leadership that is the Republican House Caucus under Boehner and Cantor and McConnell needs to be replaced by people that actually understand the human heart and the soul of not just a gerrymandered rural population that gets added weight in calling the shots in our legislative branch, but the diverse populations, which include those rural populations as well, that are the current reality in the United States.

M: Dude! There is a design to the Republican Party’s half-baked pronouncements. Just when Secretary of State John Kerry is about to achieve some diplomatic considerations  with Israel and Palestine, Shimon Peres and Benjamin Netanyahu and Yuli-Yoel Edelstein on the verge of being historic icons alongside their Palestinian counterparts, the United States Republicans have wrecked havoc by their deliberately uneducated façade of nescience.   

D: Man! Kentucky Senator Rand Paul is being seen as a potential 2016 contender for the Republican nomination for presidency. He visited Israel as did Senator Marco Rubio, but for the purposes of being able to play the part of the unsuspecting troublemaker bully with lines like “I cannot believe it’s not stable” and “We and the House Republicans struck down sharia law and the trend is spreading, look across the ocean at Britain” for the purposes of rousing a primitive savagery within their own constituencies at home.

M: Dude! Does the House Republican Caucus know that there are many overlaps not just in the 
geography but the hearts of the people of Israel and Palestine?

D: Man! I don’t think the House Republican Caucus even knows there is a shared humanity amongst the people of the regions where they want to send in American Armed Forces. That there is a kindness towards neighboring countries’ constituencies over in the Middle East, the value of saving one’s children from being killed is the life source that ties all the people in the Middle East to the entire world.

M: Dude! Reince Priebus is manufacturing so much compost about the Republican National Committee boycotting NBC and CNN if this or that. What about the real manufacturing jobs that the GOP is hung up on outsourcing or the demolishing of homes in Detroit, Michigan that they will rebuild into condos exclusively for the top 2% or the 1,400 plus natural gas wells that are consuming the beauty and 
residential areas of Fort Worth, Texas?

D: Man! And Republican Governors Scott Walker of Wisconsin and Rick Perry of Texas blatantly bypassing all their constituencies’ concerns for their own political posturing and pocketing, Walker turning on the peaceful protestors at the Wisconsin Legislature and Perry eclipsing all the protestors standing up for women’s health and contraception by middle of the night derailing of Planned Parenthood clinics across the Lone Star State.   

M: Dude! Have you noticed how the Republican Sequestration is still going on? Rather than address this terrible effect on the all economies and not just the United States’, the Republican GOP wants to engage in sanctions and insurgencies with Syria and Iran. It’s really convenient, isn’t it, how Senator John McCain is being brushed off as a conciliatory power to be? And, yet, Iran has elected a President who is offensive towards the Israelis and Zimbabwe has reelected a President who has already been written in history as  proponent of genocide? 

D: Man! The United States Republicans GOP is the major culprit in national and international affairs. And yet, although ABC News is in the grip of the GOP’s epic rage, its nightly news anchor Diane Sawyer secured the major interview with Pakistani teen crusader for women’s and girl’s rights in education, Malala Yousafzai.

M: Dude! That’s really a rough and terrible spot for Malala Yousafzai. Diane Sawyer is ABC News and ABC News is all-out enmeshed with the GOP’s agenda. Remember when Sawyer gently extolled the possibilities of a new day in politics by interviewing all the Tea Party Express candidates who won in 2010?

D: Man! Malala Yousafzai is being catapulted into world affairs for the wrong reasons, I think her father is too enthusiastic and pushy for her to achieve as much as possible as soon as possible. I’m afraid the teenager is headed for heartbreak and a lethal dosage of reality because of her naivety and trust in caregivers and followers who really do not have her best interest in mind. Adults from all directions are exploiting her.

M: Dude! Are underground tube wells and underground aquifers a reality all over the earth? Because I’m envisioning all these blindfolded GOP leaders and press being sent to remote areas where their philosophy of wartime and unrest have resulted in the perpetuation of shallow pumping wells in the times of drilled wells and electric multifunction stovetops.

D: Man! Toxic stovetops across the world map is one of the issues and one of the major injustices former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton had wanted to address with the aide of bipartisan alliances. I think it’s an idea that could be reality if these sophomoric Republicans would stop trying to instigate global perils.

M: Dude! The Republican Party wants to throw in the towel everywhere across the globe! But there are no towels to throw in the world of globalization, except those of hated and greed, in the new millennium.
   
D: Man! Therefore, any congressperson in the United States purposing to throw in the towel and manufacture trifling strife amongst any inhabitants of the world community to promote a wartime agenda, must be cross-examined in hearings and tribunals, including community councils made of citizens not in the political spheres but everyday grind. 

Saturday, August 3, 2013

Sahir Ludhianvi (1921-1980), p.469 (addressing the elitist), translated from the Hindi-Urdu by Alverston & Associates.



Sahir Ludhianvi (1921-1980), p.469 (addressing the elitist), translated from the Hindi-Urdu by Alverston & Associates.

(addressing the elitist)

I drink liquor.

What do you imbibe?

Human blood?

I am the contemptible.

Who are you?

It is acceptable when you drink.

It is a sin when I do.

You live virtuously.

I live sinfully.

You are the noble.

You are the wealthy.

I am the ignoble.

I am the wanting.

Life for the disenfranchised like myself is misery,

Death too is a torment.

I drink liquor.

What do you imbibe?

Human blood?

You always speak the truth.

I only know how to tell lies.

For you all is forgiven, even oppression and larceny.

How many hearts have you torn up?

How many dwellings have you torn down?

I ruin only myself, drinking liquor.

What do you drink? Human blood?

All manners and customs are yours alone.

All doctrines and societies too.

What is to accompany me? Smog and filth?

Today you may tear out my tongue,

In the next round, I will clear the accounts!

I drink liquor.

What do you imbibe?

Human blood?

I am the contemptible.

How may I address you?

What may I declare you?

Who are you?

Sahir Ludhianvi (1921-1980), p.469 (addressing the elitist), translated from the Hindi-Urdu by Alverston & Associates. 

Man! Dude! Session #179


(M)an: Dude! Do you know how Governor Rick Perry and Representative Kay Granger got hold of that expansive piece of land nearby my parents’ house for the intents and purposes of hydraulic fracturing?


(D)ude: Man! Hydraulic fracturing? Fracking?

M: Dude! Yeah! You know those cylinders off of Sycamore School Road some miles from the residential neighborhoods but across the street from a children’s playground and adjacent apartment complex?

D: Man! There’s a senior living community right next to that fracking apparatus on Sycamore School Road! What will happen in case of a spill or earthquake due to the hydraulic fracturing? The apartment complex and senior living center are three and four storied buildings! 

M: Dude! Talking about spillage, there is high risk of methane contamination of the drinking water in places located nearby. Also, there is also the high likelihood of briny being disposed into the water supply as well.  

D: Man! Isn’t briny the radioactive wastewater resulting from fracking?

M: Dude! Yeah! And there is also another ozone level that the conservative national press doesn’t want to reveal to communities that have been victims of criminal deception by door-to-door attractive female geologists making false claims of there possibly being a fortune’s worth of minerals underneath tenants’ homes.

D: Man! Really? Were there attractive and unassuming women geologists knocking on your parents’ door?

M: Dude! Yeah! And yes, those unassuming and attractive female geologists knocked on my parents’ door twice. There was actually only one assigned to my parents’ address. She smiled and held a contract in her hand and basically misinformed my parents about her intentions to get them to sign the document without ever examining it themselves, and returned a second time to encouragingly coax them to sign away their mineral rights for which she reiterated that they would be rewarded generously.

D: Man! What did your parents do?

M: Dude! They did not believe in the rhetoric and didn’t sign any papers presented to them by the curious female agent for PXP, Plains Exploration & Production Company based in Houston. Or was it FCX, Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold based in Phoenix?

D: Man! Could PXP and FCX be collaborating and Texas Governor Rick Perry and Senators Cornyn and Cruz and Representative Kay Granger be aligned financially with Arizona Governor Jan Brewer and Senators John McCain and Jeff Flake through this criminal deception scheme?

M: Dude! All these folks are members of the same Republican Party that believes in voter suppression through rigid identification and has only gained power through unjust redistricting and the judicial backing by the Supreme Court’s Citizens United and Shelby County decisions.

D: Man! I think the residents in your parents’ neighborhood are experiencing a direct result of the Republican Party’s insistence on government deregulation, people like House Speaker Boehner making highfalutin declarations that his Caucus is standing up for small businesses and American families when clearly the United States has diversified and White Americans will probably not be the clear majority any longer.

M: Dude! My parents reported that despite their neighborhood being comprised of middle classers and upper-classers that formed a neighborhood association and accompanying newsletter, they were duped by promises of rebuilding their duck pond’s sidewalks. Although the construction people did install a new pathway around the pond, they overlooked the entire rest of the trail.

D: Man! You know, Congressman Paul Ryan and the Republican Party, especially since 2010, have been acting like Caligula. I found a marble bust of the Roman Emperor online and it has a spooky semblance to Ryan. And like George W. Bush, Caligula set into motion a financial crisis by draining Rome’s treasury. He went onto seizing people’s estates through manipulation, much like the companies that are setting up natural gas wells throughout places like the City of Fort Worth’s middle class and upper middle class neighborhoods. The GOP is going to cause widespread thirst by constructing these volatile natural gas wells, much like the brief famine that resulted under Caligula’s watch.

M: Dude! There were prosecutorial threats all over the natural gas drilling sites when they were being constructed behind those ugly tall walls made of temporary materials that seemed to be like packing Styrofoam cubes.

D: Man! I remember the warning signs! Trespassing was prohibited with threats that if anyone tried to climb inside and take photographs or just indulge their curiosity about what was happening behind those awful looking temporary walls.

M: Dude! There were a lot of closed roads and convoys of surveyors’ vehicles all over the sites where those volatile natural gas wells were being built. My parents’ television and computer signals were constantly being interrupted during the land surveying and eventual construction.

D: Man! I think that’s what the Republican Party is focused on in terms of deregulating government oversight. If it is true, then it is a travesty of the gravest sort.

M: Dude! Governor Perry and Representative Kay Granger are condescending and always snicker at ecological concerns that the Obama Administration brings up. However, when these little to big time earthquakes began to rattled my parents’ home’s foundation and elsewhere, the Perry and Granger camps made sure to report that the questionable earthquakes were tied to global warming phenomena.

D: Man! This is criminal deception! It is absolutely deplorable and degrading to American democracy and its constituency even more.

M: Dude! Why get sidetracked into the GOP’s tactics abroad? We’ve got our own domestic threats to be alarmed about., specifically the Republican lawmakers up for reelection in 2013 and during 2014 midterms.

D: Man! McDonald’s and Wal-Mart are abusing minimum wage earners, propagandists actually having the nerve to point out how the restaurant will lose $8 billion dollars if they were to double the current minimum wage to $15 dollars per hour.  

M: Dude! Again, I think my parents’ neighborhood was led to believe they would make upwards of $20,000 dollars as a result of the land surveying that was deliberately misled by good looking and unassuming female geologists.

D: Man! Are you sure they were geologists? They could have been lying, you know?

M: Dude! Perhaps. But, as I said, neighborhoods were misled to think they would get considerable amounts of cash. However, they were lied to and, in the end, the fracking companies only awarded $100 dollar bills to individual properties and promised to rebuild the loop around the duck pond. You know that water fountain at the duck pond?

D: Man! Yeah?

M: Dude! Well, the fracking companies put up a weak advertisement bragging that the money made was being invested in the neighborhood park surrounds around the duck pond, but they did not even cover the entire length of the pathway!

D: Man! You’re supposed to take the excessively lied about erroneous $20,000 dollars promised and imagine investing it in companies like PXP and FCX and becoming an eventual millionaire and then a believer in government deregulating. And then John Boehner is going to open a ministry and preach the “I did it and so can you” gospel to the legions of small businesses that are going to result from the private investments and whatnot.

M: Dude! Talk about Caligula!

Friday, August 2, 2013

Sahir Ludhianvi (1921-1980) "Twofold World”, p.462, translated from the Hindi-Urdu by Manfred Spencer Alverston & Associates.


Sahir Ludhianvi (1921-1980) "Twofold World”, p.462, translated from the Hindi-Urdu by Manfred Spencer Alverston & Associates. 


This world is duplicitous, dyed twofold

On one hand, it is draped in silk

But naked and bare.

On one hand, the price of body is cheaper than bread

Clod of earth, but fourfold gold:

Reddish, yellowish, greenish, and whitish.

This world is duplicitous, dyed twofold

One half-face showered with splendor

One half-face pierced with lancet

Half of the body is covered with sores from Hansen’s disease

Half of the body is covered in diamonds.

One-half of the home is prosperous

One-half of the home is impoverished.

This world is duplicitous, dyed twofold

Adorning foreheads with crowns on one hand

But transporting baskets of filth atop their heads.

Pleading for alms with the right hand

Begging for charity with the other hand.

Running free meal mess halls on one hand

But begging for alms with the other.

This world is double-dealing, dyed twofold.

As a concourse of humanness, we must not have to brook

These streams of pain… and pleasure as well.

As humanity, the division of capital must be redone anew.

As long as there are class divisions,

Higher and lower standings with a diminishing middle ground,

Every sheathing will remain misshapen.

This world is two-faced, dyed twofold

On one hand, it is draped in silk

But naked and bare as well.

Sahir Ludhianvi (1921-1980) "Twofold World”, p.462, translated from the Hindi-Urdu by Manfred Spencer Alverston & Associates. 

Thursday, August 1, 2013

Man! Dude! Session #178




(D)ude: Man! Dinesh D’Souza’s political documentary “America” is scheduled to be released on the Fourth of July 2014.  

(M)an: Dude! Dinesh D’Souza, et al pushed for political overhaul and the insurgence of Tea Party Express Republicans with books like 2010’s The Roots of Obama’s Rage, in which D’ Souza wrongly ascertains that President Obama is like an angry colonialist due to his father’s Kenyan roots.

D: Man! Who exactly comprises the et al?

M: Dude! Well, for the first propaganda film, “2016: Obama’s America”, released during the 2012 presidential campaign, D’Souza enlisted Gerald R. Molen as producer. Molen, the Academy Award winning co-producer of 1993’s Schindler’s List, is the born and bred Midwesterner actively involved in the Latter-day Saints who collaborated alongside Jewish American Spielberg and Croatian Transcontinental Branko Lustig to bring to international cinema the story of the German Businessman Oskar Schindler.

D: Man! Was Oskar Schindler a Righteous Genteel? I’ve heard of him as initially being a Nazi war profiteer. Is that right?

M: Dude! Whoever saves one life saves the world entire! Oskar Schindler witnessed a massacre as part of Operation Reinhard in Krakow, Poland during which he intellectually outmaneuvers fellow Nazis like SS Lt. Amon Goeth for the first time in order to save Jews in a physical battle of wits that involves constantly having to outthink the suspicious and vigilante Nazis.  

D: Man! Do you think Dinesh D’Souza, et cetera are pushing for political overhaul and the insurgence of Groundswell Republicans as initiated by Clarence Thomas’ wife and brought to millennials via the launch of the Pivot Network this morning?

M: Dude! Seriously, I think Kentucky Senator Rand Paul and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie are orchestrating the difference between themselves when, in actuality, they are like two peas in a pod or two moths resulting from what initially was promised in entirety, which were two living butterflies.

D: Man! Is the Republican Party basically stomping its feet on purpose around the proposals the Obama Administration presents because the GOP is onto an operative that, like the Tea Party Express in 2009 and 2010, totally will blow to smithereens any hope and change in the legislative branch of national government, and maybe even Republicans gaining the United States Senate as well as managing an even stronger stronghold in the House of Representatives? 

M: Dude! History is repeating itself again, and the Republican Party has all the answers figured out and written on the palms of its hands, but isn’t budging because of the chance of being figured out. It is really something when the Obama Administration has adopted transparency, but their Republican counterparts are not even listening to any of the President’s words, Speaker Boehner electing to have his spokesperson Michael Steel address matters prematurely. Remember that?

D: Man! Apparently, Steel and Boehner already had such fervent preconceived notions about what the President would say that they gave a response to the President’s speech way before he had even addressed his audience in Chattanooga, Tennessee on Tuesday.

M: Dude! If the Republican Party is able to successfully sell the notion to millennials that the Groundswell GOP is the pivot of their lives, then our democracy is in big trouble.

D: Man! Pivoting on the basketball court can cause confusion? Or is it just my inability to play billiards?

M: Dude! Some of both, perhaps?

D: Man! Maybe! My Uncle Bo diagnosed me as having just-about-failed high school geometry. He was wrong. I passed all my classes with flying B minuses, but did struggle throughout seventh grade in drama. Do you think that could be the source of my imbalance on the court and with a cue stick?

M: Dude! The GOP is selling images and experiences of ideals to the millennials through television and movies. But what is the point of supporting a party like the United States Republicans if they refuse to legislatively back millennial concerns and wellbeing?  

D: Man! All this is conservative propagandist drama? The whole thing is just an influx of false advertisements?

M: Dude! Yes! Dinesh D’Souza is the Republican Party’s Leni Riefenstahl, the female German dancer-turned-photographer and Third Reich filmmaker who glamorized the Nazi Party at the 1934 Nuremberg Congress in her documentary film Triumph of the Will.   

D: Man! What about The Birth of a Nation? Wasn’t that too a documentary film which glamorized the Klu Klutz Klan and blackface?

M: Dude! That came into the public conscience in 1915, directed by David Liewelyn Wark Griffith, and grossing over $50 million. In 1998, the American Film Institute ranked it in the top fifty American films of all time.

D: Man! Dinesh D’Souza? Is he not a minority too?

M: Dude! He is an Asian-Indian immigrant to the United States who states in a recent interview with conservative landfill Newsmax Media that his latest film is in the works and will be released by June 2014.

D: Man! That too, like Dinesh D’Souza, has connections to the conservative Hoover Institution at Stanford University. You see, Newsmax Media’s Christopher Ruddy too was a fellow at the Hoover Institution, like D’Souza.    

M: Dude! So you think these two Stanford University Hoover Institute rats share the same rat wheel on which they run to stay slim so that D’Souza can boast in Ruddy’s Newsmax Media’s online coverage of his upcoming propagandist theatre. Listen to how D’Souza winds down his interview with jokes about Michael Moore, We have to dethrone the fat guy. It’s too embarrassing to be right behind him. I sometimes joke that he’s a symbol of the federal government- overweight and out of control. We want to give him a run for his money. Since Hollywood isn’t going to give us any Oscars, it would be extremely satisfying to beat him at the box office.

D: Man! Unintimidated and No Apologies? That’s a dangerous mix, although I am not a fan of Michael Moore’s either: He is constantly straddling the fence politically. Do you know how I know? The Republican never makes complete and total sense or sentences! Just listen to the broken record that is John Boehner’s House Republican Caucus. I hope the millennials figure out how crucial it is that the GOP backs its promises to them with actual legislation. Otherwise, I will tutor them on how to get into Hoover Institute at Stanford University.

M: Dude! I know! It’s an intricate dance between prancing about campus with your standardized vocabulary and utter self-degrading hollowness on all the issues. The way, essentially, how Paul Ryan won brownie points with his conservative mentors at Miami University.

D: Man! When you cannot figure out justice, then why not just boogie with the status quo? In fact, why not just ruin all else but the status quo?