Archive for October 19th, 2008


Sunday Soapbox: “Secret” Anger

October 19th, 2008 by Oskar Kennedy

On my way into Center City recently, I was randomly struck again by the perfection of the scam that’s presented in The Secret, a book and video (and load of metaphysical hogwash) by Rhonda Byrne. If you’re not familiar with this particular wad of Oprah-promoted crud, The Secret pretends to have discovered a long-hidden principle called “The Law Of Attraction,” which basically says that you can have whatever you want, as long as you wish hard enough.

The book takes a simple concept from quantum mechanics – that observing a system effects the outcome – and reads into it the absurd notion that your very own brain power can influence the workings of the universe. If you think hard about the thing you want, the universe will have no choice but to provide it to you, accompanied by a smiling senior citizen.

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Waldorf’s Week in Review

October 19th, 2008 by Waldorf Van Buren

Week ending October 18th, 2008.

I haven’t been following too much news this week, and I’m a day late, but what can you do?

(- – -) to Me, Waldorf van Buren, for not keeping up with the news or even caring enough about current events. Bad Waldorf, BAD! (Bad Waldorf was a punk pop band out of the Tulsa punk scene in 1987).

(+) To Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin for last night’s SNL. The rest was crap, but I enjoyed Fey.

(-) To the shenanigans going on surrounding ACORN. Quit it, disgruntled Republicans. You want a controversy: Diebold, the economy, privatization of the military, the travesty of undeclared wars, do you need more? It is not voter fraud to submit a false name on a registration, it is voter fraud to show up at the poll showing identification the is not an accurate representation. If you sign Waldorf Van Buren on a registration, it is not fraud, but if you show up registered as Waldorf Van Buren, have an ID stating you are Waldorf Van Buren, but are not, in fact, Waldorf Van Buren, guess what – you’ve just committed voter fraud. Why don’t you focus on issues instead of made-up controversies? I guess you realize you can’t win this one with voter fraud so you may as well create a shitstorm where there is none. Smells like Rove to me.

(- – -) To the American movie going public. Beverly Hills Chihuahua? Seriously?

(+ +) To the Mormon Church, believe it or not. Well, not the church itself, which gets seventeen minuses, but to a stalwart group of followers protesting their church’s opposition of gay marriage. The Mormons have taken the stance that marriage is a sacred union between one man and multiple women.

(EVEN) To me. I didn’t watch the “debate” this week. I don’t like reruns so early in the Fall TV schedule.

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