Tag: Monty Python

• Why Don’t More Men Get Themselves “Snipped”?

  Full transparency (this is the part where I drop trow). I’m “snipped”. In 2002, a year after my daughter (child number two) was born, after a series of conversations with my wife, I agreed to undergo a vasectomy – as the principle form of birth control my wife and I would use going forwards. This […]

  A L Katz

  May 12, 2022

  Culture, Feminism, Healthcare

  abortion, Aristophanes, birth control, Designmom, Every Sperm Is Sacred, Gabriella Blair, Lysistrata, Meaning Of Life, Monty Python, Twitter, Vasectomy

• Republicans Have Achieved “Peak Magical Thinking”

  The Republican Party could run a master class on magical thinking. That’s a measure of their absolute expertise on the subject – from imagining it to propagating it to accepting it. In essence and in fact, magical thinking is a safe space for tender, snowflakey feelings. Facts are anathema. They simply don’t get along with […]

  A L Katz

  December 24, 2021

  American Exceptionalism, Atheism, Corruption, Culture, Election 2016, Election 2020, Magical Thinking, Religion, Republicanism, Treason, Trump

  Apostle Paul, Democracy, Do Unto Others, Fear Of The Unknown, Magical Thinking, Meth, Monty Python, Opiate Of The People, Original Sin, Republican Party, The Big Lie, Turn The Other Cheek

• Everyone May Have Their Point Of View But Not Every Point Of View Has A Valid Point

  There was a terrific Monty Python sketch called “The Argument Clinic” where — pure theatre of the absurd — a customer (played by Brian Jones) goes to an argument clinic where he pays to have an argument with an argument counselor played by John Cleese. Right off the bat, Cleese’s counselor is disagreeable and argumentative […]

  A L Katz

  July 19, 2021

  American News Media, Branding, Corruption, Election 2020, Republicanism

  Argument Clinic, Both Sides Do It, Corruption, Donald Trump, John Cleese, Monty Python, Rabbit Holes, Social Media, The Big Lie, Theatre Of The Absurd