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Monday, January 26, 1998
Flashback to Shuteye Nation 2000:
An Amerian Glossary
QUOTE.
A
Abortion.
1) Obsolete
The disposal of a collection of cells in the uterus
which might otherwise grow to become an embarrassment, inconvenience
and/or
serious time and resource drain to the owner of the uterus in question.
2) Shhhhh, it's private.
Afrian-Amerians.
The preeminent
rights group in
the United States,
as well as the activist exemplar and natural ally of other oppressed
groups
battling for liberation and respect—notably Ho's.
Alternative
Rock. A form
of audio entertainment that became popular in the 1990s as an
alternative
to rock-and-roll (too male), music (too artful), and rap
(too comprehensible).
Amerian
Citizen. See
Citizen.
Amerian
Dream. 1) Winning
a state or multi-state millionaire lottery; 2) becoming accidentally
famous
for any reason and then parlaying notoriety into a substantial
financial
nest egg.
Anger. See Violence.
Anti-Choice.
The state
or condition of being unwilling to accept the Constitutional
right of the superior sex to purchase an abortion
at any stage of pregnancy prior to the natural emergence of the head
from
the vagina.
Attorney-General.
The head of the
Justice
Department; i.e.,
the politician
responsible for lawyers,
the law, and the
enforcement of legislation.
B
Babe. White
male slang for the
Afrian-Amerian term 'ho.'
Baby. The
most darling, precious,
perfect, adorable little gift of joy that a woman
could ever receive, because after starting out as nothing at all in the
womb,
they grow up to become wonderful Amerian children..
Bad. Anything
included on the
list of bad things, which is compiled and revised on a continuous basis
by members of the mass media who
have a feel for
such things. FOR EXAMPLE: Anger, violence,
men,
partisan
politics, corporate profits,
drugs,
guns,
tobacco,
hate,
discrimination,
special
interests, school
shootings, pornography,
et al.
Bimbo. See Slut.
Bi-Partisan
Politics.
A cooperative, non-confrontational legislative process in which both Democratics
and Republians
work to achieve the political
objectives of Democratics.
Bitch. 1) A
powerful, talented,
assertive, brilliant woman.
2) Afrian-Amerian
A female owned by
the person speaking, as
in "she's my bitch." 3) Afrian-Amerian A male
lacking in courage, strength, loyalty, brains, presence, and/or
independence,
as in "he's my bitch." 4) female slang You know. A bitch.
Born-Again
Christian. 1)
Anti-Choice
Republians
who want to turn the clock
back by a minimum of 100 years. 2) An interesting but incorrect
alternate
definition is contained in the following entry penned by the
Nutz Station
Journal columnist known as The Gadfly:
The practitioner of a pagan* version of Christianity
in which the concept of divinity is reduced to the level of a personal
good luck charm or totem, conferring complete and exclusive immunity
from
the possibility of punishment in the afterlife for those who worship
and/or
propitiate the Jesus totem in exactly the right way.
*Paganism may be distinguished from a
religion
or system of spiritual belief by its insistence on defining morality in
terms of affiliation; that is, as an “us” (saved) against “them”
(damned)
proposition, thus dispensing with potentially troubling considerations
of conduct, responsibility, duty, altruism, thoughtfulness, humility,
justice,
and tolerance.
Budget. A
formal document, prepared
by the Presdent
and (un)altered by theCongress,
specifying how the government will spend all the money earned by the
Amerian
people in the coming year.
C
Campaign
Finance Scandal.
This is the most mysterious of the Clitton scandals because Janet
Rambo finally remembered not to name an independent
counsel to look into it. According to unnamed sources,
Clitton and his political
advisers rounded up
all the Democratics
in the country, locked them
in the Lincon bedroom, and wouldn't let them out until they had made a
substantial contribution to a Buddist temple that wanted to pay for Al
Bore's 1996 Vice-Presdential campaign. Then they canvassed the
leaders
of all the enemy states around the wurld and asked them if they would
like
some military secrets in exchange for cash on the barrel head, and
please
make out your checks to the Democratic
Party. As
it turned out, Jang Zemang
of The
People's Republic of Chyna sent a very nice check. Despite Rambo's
opinion
that none of this represented any cause for concern, the Republians
conducted a long series of hearings about it in the Congress,
but without a stained dress or a soggy cigar, the mass
media couldn't justify the expense of covering the hearings, and so
nobody knows what happened there, if anything.
Celebrity.
See Role
Model.
Celebrity
Law. See
Legal
Entertainment.
Character
(1). The condition,
usually temporary, of possessing sufficient morality,
integrity,
and principle
to be able to provide
the Amerian people with political leadership.
Character
(2). The condition,
usually temporary, of possessing sufficient good sense to be sexually
faithful
to one's wife.
Children.
1) Obsolete
By-products of the male-female union representing the ultimate personal
responsibility for those who engendered them, this responsibility
consisting
of two equal duties--first to protect the issue of their loins from
accidental
or deliberate harm by society, and second, to protect society at large
from being harmed via their own failure to instruct, discipline, and
control
the issue of their loins until the rearing process was successfully
completed.
See Kids.
Christian.
1) Any person
who claims to be such, including members of formally organized
Christian
denominations, independent zealots, and Born-Again
Christians. 2) rare A practitioner of Christianity.
Christianity.
1) The
religion responsible for the rise of imperialism and Eurocentric
wurldviews, as well as the annihilation of the native peoples in North,
Central, and South Ameria. 2) An interesting but incorrect alternate
definition
is contained in the following entry penned by the Nutz Station
Journal
columnist known as The Gadfly:
An obsolete and moribund religion based upon the notion
that a flawed but functional fragment of divine perception can be
created
in an individual mind, enabling the replacement of rote obedience to
lengthy
lists of moral commandments with an interior conscience capable of
making
moral choices and learning from the consequences of those choices
through
time. The religion’s implicit insistence that each practitioner build
and
maintain in his mind a working model of the divine universe, with
himself
depicted in an appropriately humble relationship to the whole of that
universe,
enjoyed an imperfect success for a time. The extraordinary nature and
scale
of its demands upon human imagination fueled the elevation of the
individual
as a meaningful component of social and political systems and brought
about
the explosive growth of curiosity, exploration, learning, and
innovation
which enabled western civilization to dominate the wurld. Subsequently,
derivative concepts such as science, atheism, agnosticism, and
existentialism
emerged in order to reduce the scope and scale of the challenge to
individual
minds who were either incapable of imagining divinity or unwilling to
accept
their assigned place and responsibility in a divine universe. When they
had succeeded in forgetting that their own human consciousness had been
created by Christianity in the first place, they proceeded to define
progressively
smaller models of the universe, finally settling on a purely physical
dwarf
version governed by unattributed ‘laws’ of physics and a utilitarian
application
of the concept of predestination—diluted by the concept of random
physical
change—which eliminated any need for the unwelcome interior reflection
mandated by Christianity. Though the outward symbols, traditions, and
institutions
of Christianity continued to survive in a deteriorated form as a refuge
for those who harbored a mistaken belief that they rejected the purely
physical model of the universe, the religion itself was doomed from
this
point onward, and with it, the vast ideal of consciousness it had sired.
Citizen. 1)
A resident of the
United States endowed by birth or naturalization with the individual
right
guaranteed him under the Constitution,
as well as any additional rights/obligations
which
may be procured/abjured for him by rights groups
and the ongoing evolution of the citizen concept in Amerian democracy.
2) An interesting but incorrect alternate definition is contained in
the
following entry penned (or remembered) by the Nutz Station Journal
columnist known as The Gadfly:
That category of person, generally the holder of a U.S.
passport, who is so blindly obsessed with being no man's servant that
he
insists on being every man's slave.
Citizenship.
The state of
being a citizen,
with all the rights
and legal
obligations appertaining to that state.
Civil
Rights. 1) Obsolete:
The
rights attaching to an Amerian
citizen under
the Constitution.
2) The rights attaching to
any group able to articulate a claim of present or past oppression by
Amerian
citizens outside the group. Said rights include the right to be
provided
for in a state of absolute economic equality, as
well as the right to be loved, admired, and ostentatiously flattered by
all other groups and individuals, with the absence of any of these
behaviors
to be taken as ipso facto proof of hate or
unacceptable ‘phobic’ feelings. 3) The legal mechanism by which the
archaic
Fifth Amendment to the Constitution (barring double
jeopardy) is being repealed. See Hate Crime.
College.
1) Obsolete:
An
institution organized for the purpose of providing young adults with a
foundation of knowledge, learning, interests, and intellectual skills
sufficient
to prepare them for the mental, emotional, and moral challenges of
life.
2) See University.
Compassion.
The condition
of feeling or communicating concern about the problems and misfortunes
of others. See Niceness.
Compassionate
Conservative.
The self-appellation employed by Conservatives
in political
communications with women.
Compromise.
The art of
passing legislation
without having
to think anything through.
Computer-Literacy.
A replacement for old-fashioned literacy achieved by teaching children
how to click on pictures of things that lead them to still more
pictures
of things.
Congress.
The Senate,
the House of
Representatives, and the lobbyists
they work for.
Conservative.
A person
whose political
views favor racist,
sexist,
anti-choice,
anti-Social
Security, and anti-gun-control
policies, as well as tax cuts and
draconian
slashes (i.e., minuscule reductions in constant dollar terms) in the
federal
budget,
particularly in those programs that
offer no benefit
to people who pay taxes.
See
Conservatism.
Conservatism.
See Right
Wing Conspiracy.
Conspiracy.
Any organized
attempt to accomplish a bad thing.
Constitution.
A symbolic
document, written in the form of a contract
between the federal government and the Amerian people, enshrining the
individual's
right to privacy
and the government's
right to promulgate good
on behalf of individuals,
as well as a lot of amusing but obsolete anti-government rhetoric.
Constitutional.
Deemed
legal
by the Supreme
Court based on: a.
wording contained in the Constitution;
b.
wording that should have been contained in the Constitution; or c.
wording that should not have been contained in the Constitution and can
therefore be ignored.
Contract.
A piece of paper
written by a lawyer
and therefore to be trusted
as meaningless and unenforceable.
Cool. 1)
It's like,
you know, cool. SYNONYMS: See Phat. 2) An
interesting
but incorrect alternate definition is contained in the following entry
penned by the Nutz Station Journal columnist known as The
Gadfly:
Like the word “cute” as used by females, cool has
no denotative definition beyond ascribing a vaguely positive aura to
the
noun or proper noun it modifies, although its unexpressed connotations
may approach infinity. It may perhaps be best understood in the present
day as a kind of opposite to George Orwell’s “ungood” as used in 1984,
which is to say that it is a label which can be applied without thought
when some discriminating comment is required of a nature that would, in
a conscious mind, occasion comparison, characterization, description,
observation,
insight, inference, or judgment.
D
Deadbeat Dads.
See Fatherhood.
Decent.
Not indecent.
Decision.
The outcome of
a deliberative process involving demands, accusations, charges,
countercharges,
lies, and (eventually) compromise.
Democracy. 1)
The political
process by which the will of the people—i.e., their feelings,
as expressed through polls—achieves
the idealsoffreedom,
equality, justice, and love
by means of bi-partisan
legislative compromise.
2) An interesting but incorrect alternate definition is contained in
the
following entry penned by the Nutz Station Journal columnist
known
as The Gadfly:
Originally an
untried concept
denoting rule by and for the people, the term 'Democracy' underwent an
evolution as it passed through multiple phases of experimentation
before
reaching its maturity at the end of the twentieth century. The key
milestone
in its history was the determination that the Amerian Constitutional
preference
for separation of church and state could be achieved only by excising
all
aspects of religion, including acknowledgment of the Judeo-Christian
God
as inspiration and example, from the institutions of the state.
Completion
of the excision—vastly facilitated by the broad cultural decline of
Christianity—created
a vacuum which was slowly filled with a species of post-Christian
religion
centered in the state itself. Where people once prayed to God, they now
petitioned the government and reposed all their trust and hope in the
beneficence
of an institution from which they formerly sought protection. And just
as no Christian would ever have thought to limit the power of God or to
question His virtue, so the Amerians ceased to seek limits on the power
of a government they persisted in confusing with themselves or to
question
the virtue of government involvement in every aspect of their lives.
Without
perceiving the transition, they thus transferred the seat of moral
authority
from their own individual consciences to the political process and the
policies which emerged from that process. Accordingly, matters of a
moral
nature ceased to be the concern of individuals and belonged exclusively
to the domain of the state. At the same time the state, as a reflection
of the mass of people, did attempt to give them what they wanted, as
long
as such bounties did not infringe on its own continual increase of
power.
In this fashion, the accumulations of small policy decisions gradually
redefined the values of the nation and installed the articles of the
new
religion: 1) The protection of children (i.e., The
Kids); 2) the prolongation of physical life (i.e., Health
and Safety);
and 3) the proliferation
of material goods and services (i.e., Jobs
and Prosperity).
The protection of
children had formerly been the zealously guarded responsibility of
parents,
perhaps the prime responsibility in the lives of those who had
children.
The retention of this value in the new religion was therefore rooted in
tradition, but it was also necessary to further increase of the state.
Over the course of several generations, the evolving social contract
had
by increments reduced parental control and autonomy to such an extent
that
without a powerful state commitment to safeguard children, parents
might
very well have begun resisting further encroachments by the state into
their homes. Yet such encroachments were necessitated by the third
article,
which required that women be enticed out of the home into the
production
mechanisms of the economy. Coupled with the increasing power of
technological
mass
media, the prospect of mothers consigning their children to the
care
of third parties conjured the fear that parents could no longer vouch,
in any way, for the protection of their own offspring from danger and
harmful
influences. In response, the state formally recast itself in the role
of
prime parent to all children and thus at a single stroke
acquired
the authority to oversee and overrule parents, as well as establish and
enforce the definition of good child-raising. The acceptance of the
state
in this role has been nearly accomplished. Policies in support of the
two
other articles reinforce the first. Since moral responsibility has been
transferred to the state, the citizens of the state have been
transformed
into mere consumers of goods and services like the children they now so
closely resemble. And also like children, they feel—in their bones—that
it is the responsibility of the parent to take care of them, to nurse
them
when they are sick, to eliminate—without even being requested to do
so—physical
dangers and other risks against which they feel small and helpless.
Hence,
the contemporary debate about how large a role the government should
have
in healthcare is moot; the government will be responsible for
all
healthcare for everyone in the very near future. Finally, the state has
accepted responsibility for keeping the children's toybox filled with
new
and diverting entertainments, in the form of all those material goods
and
services, because what else is there for children to do in their
playtime?
And the state will also be in charge, forever, of the all-important
sharing,
so that no poor child will be without a toy or two. At this point,
there
will be those who will have understood the discussion well enough to
divine
that the second and third articles are, in fact, irrelevant. There is
only
one article in the final analysis: protection of the children. Such a
state
makes children of everyone. Cynics may insist that a state
formulated
around such a religion cannot be a democracy because the people have no
more will to express. But this is not true. The smallest child has a
will.
The job of the parent is to appease the will as often as is consistent
with protecting the child from harm. But except for that will, the
parent
has all the power, including the power to announce the moment when
playtime
is over.When that moment comes, the child may cry, but that is all.
Ultimately,
he will have to bow to the will of the people. It is our own will we
have
manifested in this new religion. When we rise with quivering voice to
demand
attention to the children, it is ourselves we are talking about. It is
"we the people" who want to be looked after by the only adult, the only
god, on the horizon. This is a democracy, after all.
Democratic.
Full of Democracy.
Democratics.
Members of
the political party
that favors Democracy.
Desirable.
Good.
Dis. Afrian-Amerian
slang for "disrespect"; i.e., failing to show admiration for those who
demand it.
Discrimination.1)
Obsolete:
The act of drawing a distinction based on experience and the exercise
of
judgment. 2) The act (principally by a white male) of drawing a
distinction
in matters of race, sex, or religion based on experience and the
exercise
of judgment. See Bad.
Disloyalty.
The opposite
of loyalty.
Diva. An old
ho.
Divisive.
The meaning is
dictated by pronunciation. When the first and last i's are short
and the middle i is long, the word describes acts or conditions
which are likely to result in rifts between individuals or groups. When
all three i's are short (as mispronounced by intellectual
politicians and pundits),
the word describes the
latest Republian
political action, initiative,
or campaign.
Doctor.
See Physician.
Double
Jeopardy. The
practice, usually employed in matters of celebrity
law, of trying an acquitted defendant a second time after his not
guilty
verdict has been disapproved by polls; the second
trial is customarily a civil suit or a federal charge of violating the
victim's Civil
Rights under the Constitution.
Drugs. 1)
Medications prescribed
by physicians
(legal) to
help people overcome pain, depression, agitation, disease, and other
physical
and mental illnesses. See Good. 2)
Medications self-prescribed
by individuals (illegal)
to help them overcome pain,
depression, agitation, and other physical and mental illnesses. See Bad.
Dude. A male,
but dumber.
E
Education.
A form of government-sponsored
daycare in which teachers
prepare children and young
adults for jobs
by exposing them to trace amounts of
academic instruction in such subjects as Pre-Reading, Creative
Spelling,
Number and Shape Appreciation, Third Wurld
Social
Studies, Loving the Environment, Safe Sex, Logging
on to the UnderNet,
and Lists of Answers to
the Multiple-Choice Questions on the SATs.
Egalitarian.
Full of
equality.
Elderly.
1) Obsolete
The aged, among them those who have acquired, through a liftetime of
work
and human experience, the priceless and eminently respected asset of wisdom.
2) Senior
citizens.
Empeachment.
A formal
attempt by the
legislative
branch
to violate the
will of the Amerian
people
by removing the duly elected Presdent of the
United
States. See also Legal
Entertainment.
Epidemic.
1) Obsolete
A level of contagious disease outbreak at which each case generates one
or more new cases of the disease, thus resulting in an exponentially
increasing
state of contagion. 2) A rate of occurrence for a bad
thing that exceeds acceptable levels; i.e., a rate above zero.
Equality.
The ideal
of making everybody the same, from sea to shining sea.
Erotica.
Sexually oriented
material that is arousing to females. See Feelings.
See also Good.
Eurocentric.
A mental
illness characterized by the false belief that the notable
achievements,
benefits, and virtues of western civilization have been produced by
western
civilization.
Evidence.
Physical or circumstantial
facts—authenticated by police
testimony
and other credible sources—used to prove the guilt or innocence of a
defendant
charged in a legal proceeding.
Evil. See Obscenity.
Executive
Branch. The branch
of government run by the Presdent,
responsible
for pandering
to the Amerian people,
collecting their money, writing their checks, and running the country
by
executive
order when the Congress is too
busy empeaching
the Presdent to pass any legislation.
Executive
Order. The
means by which the Presdent runs
the country without
having to bother with Congress, the budget,
or other bureaucratic restraints; he simply orders the Treasury
Department to write a check and tells the payee how he wants the
money
spent. Cool.
F
Fairness.
Whatever outcome
the person on camera right now wants.
Family.
Any societal sub-unit
created by the sharing of an address, a last name, a distinct set of
genes,
or a bed.
Family
Values. A strain
of highly emotional oratory which purports to express the profound
importance
of the societal sub-unit created by the sharing of an address, a last
name,
a distinct set of genes, or a bed. Theoretically, or at least
rhetorically,
such sub-units are instrumental in the development of good citizens
and maintenance of the self-esteem
which belongs
to said good citizens by right of birth. For this reason, family values
are held to be sacrosanct from interference by outsiders, excepting
duly
authorized local, state, and federal government agencies and their
allied
social service and law enforcement organizations.
Fatherhood.
The state
of being a male
parent; i.e.,
a probable
perpetrator of child abuse, incest, desertion, and financial
non-support.
Federal
Prosecutor.
A lawyer who
works for the Justice
Department in order to acquire experience in exacting justice
via the skilled use of police
testimony.
See also Prosecutor.
.
Feelings. The most
egalitarian
of all human forms of expression and therefore the only one which
matters
in a democratic
society.
Female. 1)
The superior sex.
2) A member of the superior sex. (See also Ho.)
Feminist.
An advocate, male
or female, for
the goals of feminism.
(See also Ho.)
Feminism.
A political
movement organized for the purpose of obtaining superior status for the
superior sex, including equal pay for lesser work, superior privileges
under (or over) the law,
and legislative vengeance for
a long list of grudges, grievances, slights, and fancied slights nursed
by women since the beginning of recorded history.
Unfortunately for feminists,
such goals are inconsistent
with Democracy.
Ultimately, to their dismay, they
may
have to settle for equality.
Fetus. 1) A
collection of genetic
material stored in the uterus and
bearing
a strong but spurious resemblance to a small baby. 2) [Legal] In the
event
of injury or death caused by a person other than the owner of the
uterus
in which it is stored, a baby.
Former
Federal Prosecutor.
A TV lawyer.
Freedom.
1) Obsolete:
The right of an individual to think for himself, express himself as he
will, and to make his own decisions in all matters, provided he does no
injury to another. 2) the right of an individual or group to demand
that
the government limit the freedoms of others who have done, may do, or
are
of a mind to do injury to the physical persons, economic prospects, or
feelings
of the one(s) making the demand.
G
Gay. 1) Obsolete:
The
state of being spontaneously joyful and carefree. 2) The state of being
homosexual. 3) Claimant to the right
to be loved lavishly and uncritically by heterosexuals.
See also
Lesbian.
Gender.1) Obsolete:
Grammatical term denoting the distinctions which may be made, sometimes
arbitrarily, among three types of nouns and pronouns—masculine,
feminine,
and neuter. 2) The principal attribute of a human being in determining
whether any given individual is genetically disposed to the good
(female) or to the bad
(male).
Genocide.
Any attempt by
Republians
to slow the growth of federal
programs
offering benefits to people who don't pay tax.
Gentlemen.
1) Obsolete:Men
possessed of refined tastes, exquisite manners, and a full complement
of
Christian virtues. 2) A sign appearing on the doors of restrooms used
by
males
in expensive restaurants.
Global
Warning. The
up-and-coming favorite apocalypse of scientists
since the likelihood of all-out nuclear war experienced such a setback
c.1990. The idea of this one is that we're all going to perish
eventually
unless the White House passes a bunch of laws against
the Green House. It has something to do with temperature. Also with
driving
cars, which is bad and we shouldn't do it. That's why you never see a
scientist
driving a car.
Good.
Anything included on the
list of good things, which is compiled and revised on a continuous
basis
by members of the mass media who
have a feeling
for that sort of thing. FOR EXAMPLE: Kids, feelings,
women,
choice,
privacy,
love,
prescription
drugs, bi-partisan
politics, lying
about sex, computer
literacy, teachers,
justice,
family
values,
gun control,
rights
groups,
female sexuality,
et al.
Gun Control.
All the new
legislation
required to foil the
obscene
objectives of the
NRA.
Guns. 1) Obsolete.
Firearms.
2) The
violent, evil
weapons of destruction that make our kids
kill each other and their teachers.
H
Hate. Any negative
emotion, from mild irritation to homicidal fury, displayed or expressed
toward a member of a racial, ethnic, sexual, or religious
minority
or a member of the superior sex.
Hate Crime.
Any crime of
violence
for which the victim and his allies desire to try the accused for what
he thinks as well as what he did.
Hate Group.
Any group which
displays or expresses a negative
emotion, from
mild irritation to homicidal fury, toward a racial or ethnic minority
or
the majority gender.
Hate Speech.
1) Use of
the N-Word, in
any context, by anyone other than an
Afrian-Amerian.
2) Any speech which expresses a negative
emotion,
from mild irritation to homicidal fury, toward a racial or ethnic
minority
or the majority gender.
Health. 1)
One of the more
recently discovered Amerian rights; i.e., the
right
to be protected by the government from all illnesses, as well as the
costs
of being healed of such illnesses. 2) Along with Safety,
The second article of post-Christian
religion.
Heterosexual.
An old-fashioned
exclusive sexual preference—probably Eurocentric
in origin—for members of the opposite sex. The condition is often
accompanied
by a propensity toward the disease of homophobia.
Historian.
A member of
the mass media
responsible for exporting
the present to the past and publicizing the lessons he has learned by
pretending
to have done the opposite.
History.
A story—made up
by an historian—in
which present-day characters
act out a present-day plot involving events of the past.
Ho. Afrian
Amerian slang for female.
Homophobia.
A mental disease
of heterosexuals
marked by the inability to
feel and express lavish, uncritical love of gay
people.
Honest.
Believable, especially
about matters of good
and bad in
Amerian life, as opposed to being merely truthful about matters political.
Honor. 1) Uh,
would this be something like principle? 2)
Or integrity? 3) ????????????? 4)
Whatever.
House of
Representatives. The
lower house of Congress,
responsible
for indicting the Presdent by passing articles of empeachment
and for approving the Presdent's budget as written
after every government shutdown.
Husband.
The partner in a
marriage,
usually male,
who lies about sex.
Hypocrisy.
The act of maintaining
that lying about sex is bad, illegal,
or detrimental to a politician's capacity for leadership.
Hypocrite.
Any person who
claims that
lying about sex is
just as bad as
any other kind of lying and/or that there
are people who don't lie about sex..
I
Ideal. See Principle.
Illegal.
1) Having to do
with lawyers,
the law, and the
police—local,
state or federal. 2) A state of affairs in which a non-celebrity
defendant
has some chance of being found guilty unless he can afford an excellent
lawyer AND the prosecutor
is not running for
reelection, bucking for a promotion, or politically compromised with
respect
to offering a plea
bargain. 3) Not formalized
by a piece of paper drawn up by a lawyer for the purpose of providing
potentially
necessary evidence
to the appropriate
authorities. 4) Not subject to tax. 5) Not
obedient
to the laws of the land; i.e., not all of them or not all the time. 6)
SYNONYM for Unlawful.
Indecent.
1) [Liberal] Not
quite obscene,
but pretty bad. 2) [Conservative]
a. Any person who talks about sex or other bodily
functions.
b. Any instance of talk about sex or other bodily functions.
Independent
Counsel.
1) Obsolete since 1992. A lawyer or judge
appointed by the Justice
Department to
investigate possible unlawful
conduct by a member
or members of the executive branch.
2) A
vengeful maniac, uncontrolled by any authority but partisan
conspiracies,
bent on spending as much money as possible attempting to remove the
duly
elected Presdent
of the United States from office
while jailing as many of his colleagues and friends as possible.
Individual
Rights.
The right of any individual to seek membership in a rights
group represented by a lobbyist powerful
enough
to procure money and privilege for that group from the federal
government.
Information
Explosion.
The kind of explosion you get when half a billion geeks in sweaters are
on-line to the UnderNet,
looking at porn.
Integrity.
A standard of
behavior requiring
honest, principled
conduct,
with the exception of lying about sex.
Intellectual.
1) Obsolete:
A person who pursues learning, ideas, and the arts for the purpose of
obtaining
understanding and enlightenment. 2) See Pseudo-Intellectual.
Iram-Contra
Scandal. A
fairly puny attempt by the Regan-Bush
administration to compete with the Watergape Scandal.
Sometime back in the awful 80s, the Republians
in the Regan administration wanted to get back some hostages they had
left
with some terrorists in Iram
by mistake. Although
they told the Amerian people they wouldn't bargain with terrorists,
they
were lying,
like every administration that tells the
Amerian people it won't bargain with terrorists. In order to prevent
the
Amerian people from discovering the lie, they decided
to use illegal
arms as a bargaining chip, because
nobody can ever figure out what's going on when illegal arms are
involved.
According to unnamed
sources, the Regan-Bush administration
agreed to sell the illegal arms to the terrorists, which convinced the
terrorists to give back the hostages, and then the administration gave
the money they got from the terrorists to some other, friendlier
terrorists
in Central Ameria who were trying to overthrow their government and
couldn't
get any money from the U.S. Congress to
help them
do it. When the Democratics
in Congress started
getting suspicious, they subpoenaed the weird guy who worked in the
White
House basement (Oliver
Nuke) and asked
him what was going on. Nuke said he didn't have any idea what was going
on, which was a lie.
The telling of a lie so outraged
the Democratics that they insisted on an independent
counsel to investigate the matter. The independent counsel, whose
name
was Floyd Walsh,
investigated the
matter so thoroughly that it took him seven years and $30 million to
arrive
at the conclusion that Presdent Regan was senile and couldn't ever
surpass
the calumny of Watergape. Then Oliver Nuke testified in Congress again
and admitted he'd been lying, although he claimed that it was okay to
lie
about matters involving foreign policy and national security, because
everybody
always lies about foreign policy and national security. When he put it
that way, the Amerian people fell in love with Oliver Nuke and gave him
very high approval ratings in the polls. At
this point Walsh quit in disgust without bothering to convict anybody,
although he did write a very very stern report about the whole
thing.
Is. The most
memorable word ever
uttered by Presdent Bill Clitton, although we're still not sure what it
means exactly.
J
Jobs. 1)
Adult daycare, the
preparation for which is the sole purpose of Education,
to the extent consistent with the maintenance of childhood self-esteem.
2) Along with Prosperity,
the third article of
Post-Christian
religion.
Journalism.
The set of
activities performed by journalists,
covered to the extent possible by the appearance of objectivity.
See also TV
Journalism.
Journalist.
1) Obsolete.
Practitioner of journalism,
a.k.a. The Second
Oldest Profession; i.e., a repeater of malicious gossip, above nothing
and below everything in the human social scale. 2) A member of the mass
media responsible for divining what the truth is and digging up all
the facts necessary to prove it to a TV or newspaper audience. 3)
An interesting but incorrect alternate definition is contained in the
following
entry penned by the
Nutz Station Journal columnist known as The
Gadfly:
The self-ordained priest of post-Christian
religion, relentlessly exposing all the bad things
and fearlessly promoting all the good things via the
the instantaneous scripture of carefully edited videotape and carefully
misused words.
Journalistic.
Like
a journalist.
Judge. A lawyer
armed with a black robe and a conviction that he is above the law,
immune to the law, or synonymous with the law.
Judiciary
Branch. The branch
of government responsible for keeping all the laws complicated
enough to feed the largest population of lawyers
in the wurld.
Justice.
1) Obsolete:
What is fair and appropriate under the circumstances from a rational,
dispassionate,
and disinterested perspective. 2) Vengeance. 3) Getting away with
it.
Justice
Department.
The department of the executive branch
responsible
for the administration of justice to the Presdent's
friends and enemies.
K
Kids. 1) Our
wonderful, beautiful,
perfect Amerian children. 2) The first article of post-Christian
religion.
L
Ladies. 1) Obsolete:Women
possessed of refined tastes, exquisite manners, and a full complement
of
Christian virtues. 2) A sign appearing on the doors of restrooms used
by
females
in expensive restaurants.
Law. An
enormous pile of books
containing very specific, very carefully chosen words describing what
is
legal
and what is illegal,
thus providing a platform for
lawyers
to argue that whatever the words mean, they're just not clear enough to
justify a decision against their client(s) in this particular case. See
also Legislation.
Lawful.
Full of law,
subject to interpretation by lawyers.
Lawyers.
Brilliant men and
women of high
principle
and integrity,
who work devotedly for justice on
behalf
of the Amerian people and/or their clients by translating the law
into a meaningless pile of empty bullshit. See also TV
lawyers.
Leader.
Someone who displays,
exercises, or occupies a position of leadership.
Leadership.
1) The act
of pandering.
2) Those who are formally charged with
the responsibility for pandering; e.g.,
political
and party
leaders.
Legal. 1)
Having to do with
lawyers
and the law. 2) Rare
A state of affairs
in which a non-celebrity defendant has some chance of being found not
guilty
unless he can't afford a good lawyer OR the prosecutor
is running for reelection, bucking for a promotion, or being
politically
pressured to coerce a plea bargain.
3) Formalized
by a piece of paper (e.g., a contract)
which generally requires the assistance of lawyers to create and always
requires the assistance of lawyers to dissolve. 4) Subject to tax.
5) Obedient to the laws of the land; i.e., all of them, all the time.
6)
SYNONYM for Lawful.
Legal
Entertainment.
A process resembling litigation in
which a
celebrity or
police
officer accompanied by expensive TV lawyers
is tried in the mass
media and negotiates a verdict
and/or sentence with the court based on polls and
the projected TV ratings for an appeal or double
jeopardy trial.
Legislation.
Laws
written and voted into effect by the legislative
branch of a government, including laws enacting rights,
programs,
and the budget.
Legislative
Branch. The
branch of government responsible for nothing but intensely involved in
everything. At the federal level of the United States of Ameria it
consists
of the Senate,
the House
of Representatives, and the
lobbyists who
write
the bills and orchestrate congressional voting records.
Lesbian. Gay
but not witty, amusing, or well dressed.
Lewiski
Scandal. Presdent
Clitton's best and most entertaining scandal. According to unnamed
sources, the real story is far more interesting than what has been
revealed to average Amerians. The whole affair originated as a
high-minded
contingency plan to spare the nation the trauma of a prolonged and ugly
empeachment trial. Concerned that the mass media
might slip up eventually and become interested in the Campaign
Finance scandal, the Presdent decided that it might be a good idea
to create a diversion. After months of planning with his closest
advisers,
he implemented a scheme to have an adulterous affair, inside the Oval
Office,
with a White House intern who was young enough to be his daughter. A
careful
search for a volunteer resulted in the choice of Monica Lewiski, the
daughter
of loyal Democratic
contributors who lived in Beverly
Hills and were therefore grateful for the honor being accorded them.
The
intention was to leak the story through a cooperative government
functionary
named Linda Trikk if it ever seemed that Campaign Finance was turning
into
a problem—say, a congressional recommendation that the Presdent be
empeached
for high treason or something like that. The resulting sex scandal
would
then push the dreary details of Democratic fund-raising right off the
front
pages until the dangerous moment had passed. Unfortunately, the scheme
backfired when the vast right wing
conspiracy
(whose right hand didn't know what its right hand was doing) managed to
drag the Lewiski affair into the Paula Janes lawsuit, which resulted in
a certain amount of unavoidable perjury and
other
problems. Still, the White House was prepared to defuse the story when
it broke prematurely in the mass media. The contingency plan called for
an absolute denial by the Presdent and a few well chosen audiotapes of
Lewiski discussing her slutty past with Trikk, except that the little
blue
dress spoiled everything. The Presdent had already issued his famous
finger-wagging
denial when Trikk sounded the alarm that Lewiski's mother, anxious for
a souvenir from her daughter's secret patriotic mission, had asked for
and received an item of clothing autgraphed with the Presdent's genetic
signature. If the planned media annihilation of Lewiski went forward,
Trikk
warned, Lewiski would produce the dress. Subsequent events played out
in
the mass media and are well known. Sadly, the nation may never know of
Trikk's valor in falling on the sword for her Commander-in-Chief, but
those
who seek to learn the identity of the benefactor who paid for her
plastic
surgeries need look no farther than... well, need we say more?
Liberal.
Despite unflagging
attempts by the vast right wing
conspiracy to
make this a dirty word, it isn't. It stands for all the wonderful
Amerian
people who want everyone and everything to be nice (i.e., Good).
A large subset of these people also know exactly which new laws
and government programs
are needed to make everything
nice, and they're working hard to make it happen. People who know about
such matters are convinced that liberals are the greatest of idealists,
because they continue to believe in and work for the ideal of niceness,
even though they know that most average Amerians are crude, ignorant,
racist,
selfish, violent animals.
Lie. An
untruth, except as employed
under certain well defined circumstances in politics. See Spin.
Like. 1) Uh,
it's, like,
like. 2) An interesting but incorrect alternate definition
is contained in the following entry penned by the Nutz Station
Journal
columnist known as The Gadfly:
An interjection which serves as the signpost of a simile
that can't be completed and therefore puts a pedestrian predicate
nominative
in place of the simile; e.g., he's, like, stupid... (often completed by
the oxymoronic explanation, "you know."). Its effect is to make every
person,
object, and experience incomparable, which is to say that there is
nothing
which teaches us about or sheds light on anything else. Cool.
Litigation.
The process by
which lawyers
demonstrate in court the meaninglessness
of all laws,
contracts,
and
evidence
cited as relevant and indicative by opposition lawyers and their
accomplices.
Lobbyist.
A paid advocate
for Special
Interests or Rights
Groups seeking specific legislation
in Congress.
Love. 1) noun
The ultimate
objective of democracy,
to be achieved by Civil
Rights and gun
control legislation,
vigorous prosecution of hate crime,
and the suppression
of all forms of obscenity.
2) verb To commit
an act of love.
Loyalty.
The state of being
a determined and obedient advocate for one's political party
and its leadership;
it is considered the ultimate
political
virtue and therefore justifies every seeming lapse of integrity
except engagement in Partisan
Politics.
Lying. The
act of telling a
lie. See Lie. See
also Perjury.
M
Male. 1) The
inferior sex. 2)
A member of the inferior sex.
Manhood.
1) Obsolete
Something about
men. 2) See Penis.
Marriage.
A temporary legal
truce between two people, usually a male and a female,
before the onset of a furious litigation
process
designed to produce hatred, bitterness, and breathtaking lawyers'
fees.
Mass Media.
The collective
organ of communication—including television, radio, newspapers,
magazines,
books, and movies—responsible for informing the Amerian people about
what
their feelings
should be when the pollsters call.
Maverick.
A politician who
displays disloyalty
to his party
and/or its leadership;
i.e., a pariah.
Medication.
See Drugs.
Men. 1) Obsolete:
Members
of the stronger sex who had achieved the ideal
known as
manhood. 2)
See Male.
The Military.
The U.S. Armed
Forces, including the Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard.
They are responsible for diverting attention from Presdential scandals
by bombing or invading
third wurld
countries, as well as parachuting into the middle of thousand-year-old
feuds the Presdent doesn't approve of.
MLB.
Abbreviation for Major League
Baseball, an economic institution responsible for 20 percent of
the
Gross National Product earned legally by Afrian-Amerians.
It is organized in the form of "teams," representing Afrian Amerian job
prospects in individual cities in the U.S., including the St. Lewis
Carnals,
the Alanta Injuns, the Newyork Yankeys, the Texus Ringers, the
Philaidelphia
Phollies, the Chigago White Sux, et al.
Morality.
The state of being
disposed toward the list of good things as
opposed
to the list of bad
things.
Motherhood.
1) The
distinctive biological capability to bear children
which demonstrates the superiority of the female
sex and thus gave rise to the constitutional
right of privacy.
2) The state of being a female
parent
and all the rights
and privileges appertaining thereto.
N
NASDAQ.
Abbreviation for the
term "tech-heavy NASDAQ," which is the stock exchange listing UnderNet
companies whose equity has grown exponentially because they earn no profits
and therefore experience none of the burdensome costs associated with
the
payment of income tax
and dividends to shareholders.
NBA.
Abbreviation for the National
Basketball Association, an economic institution responsible for 40
percent
of the Gross National Product earned legally by Afrian-Amerians.
It is organized in the form of "teams," representing Afrian Amerian job
prospects in individual cities in the U.S. and Canadia, including the
Newyork
Kinks, the Bostun Celfics, the San Atonio Spurts, the Torono Rappers,
the
Philaidelphia Sexers, the Huston Rockers, the Los Analos Leakers, the
Chigago
Bullies, et al.
NEA.
Abbreviation for the National
Education Association, a coalition of teachers who
work tirelessly for the improvement of education
and the protection of teachers from assaults on their self-esteem,
including assessments of their competence and job performance,
merit-based
compensation, and competition from private (i.e., non-union)
schools.
Negative.
The condition
of eschewing niceness
in favor of partisan
politics.
NFL.
Abbreviation for the National
Football League, an economic institution responsible for 30 percent of
the Gross National Product earned legally by Afrian-Amerians.
It is organized in the form of "teams," representing Afrian Amerian job
prospects in individual cities in the U.S., including the Dallus
Killboys,
the Clevelin Blacks (sometimes), the Tennessucky
Titantics, the Dunver Buncos, the Oklahoma Raiderz, the St. Lewis
Rumps,
the Chigago Beers, the Wishington
Native
Amerians, et al.
Niceness.
See Liberal.
Non-Partisan
Politics.
1) Obsolete: Doing what is right, without regard to the
positions
or preferences of
political parties.
2) The spin
employed by Democratics
in support of their political
objectives.
NRA.
Abbreviation for the National
Semi-Automatic Rifle Association, which is a special
interest acting on behalf of racist, sexist
white men who
want to overthrow the government by promulgating
school
shootings, Post Office massacres, and inner-city gang
violence.
N-Word. 1)
An unspeakable,
unprintable, utterly unusable obscenity of a
hate
speech term for an unwelcome member of a certain racial minority.
2)
Afrian-Amerian
An epithet or term of greeting, ranging from amicable to provocative,
meaning
(loosely) a black person.
NYSE.
Abbreviation for the Newyork
Stock Exchange, the institution that manages the trading of stocks in
those
old-fashioned companies who seek to attract shareholders by earning profits.
.
O
Objective.
Nonpartisan.
Obscenity.
Anything which
arouses unwelcome
feelings of
disgust and intolerance
in people inclined toward good. FOR EXAMPLE:
obscene
sex
acts (see Pornography),
obscene violence,
obscene prejudice,
obscene profits,
obscene tobacco
lobbies, et al.
Obstruction
of Justice.
Committing
illegal acts
such as bribery, intimidation,
extortion, blackmail, destruction of evidence, and subornation of
perjury in order to prevent law enforcement agencies or officers of the
court from discovering the truth during any investigation or trial
proceeding
not concerned with sex
or sexual conduct.
P
Pandering.
Doing or saying
whatever the latest
polls report the
Amerian people
want you to do or say.
Parents. Mothers,
adoptive mothers, and others who
may have temporary
legal
custody of children.
Parse. The
act of trying to
determine what the Presdent is
misrepresenting,
omitting, or lying
about this time.
Partisan
Politics.
1) The strenuous advocacy of any political
position
not favored by the person on camera right now. 2) The opposite of Non-Partisan
Politics.
Party. A
formal alliance among
people who share essentially the same positions on political
issues; the alliance commands loyalty from its
members
and acts in concert to elect candidates to office, pass legislation
favorable to its members, defeat legislation unfavorable to its
members,
and destroy the careers of opponents and mavericks.
Penis. 1)
The troublesome appendage
which signifies and corrupts the male of the
species.
2) The male organ which is in contact with the inside of a condom
during
an act of safe sex.
Perjury. Lying
under oath about matters other than sex; it is
considered
unlawful
except in the case of police
testimony.
Personal.
1) Obsolete:
Information that no one may politely seek about a friend, acquaintance
or professional contact without express permission; i.e., information
for
which the only value to the seeker is satisfaction of curiosity. 2)
Universal
descriptor for any unsavory action or information which a person in
public
life (e.g., a politician)
prefers
to keep secret, especially information relating to amorous adventures,
sexual proclivities and experience, drug and alcohol abuse, and
criminal
conduct; 3) universal descriptor for information a person other than a
politician might prefer to withhold from insurance companies, banks,
government
agencies, legal institutions, or healthcare providers but cannot
without
incurring grave legal or financial consequences.
Personality.
Whatever
it is, apart from character,
that
makes a person likeable; e.g., a nice smile, sex appeal, good looks, or
an ability to sound sincere about being in favor of what the polls
say the people want.
Phat.
Afrian-Amerian slang for
'cool.'
Physician.
See Whore.
Plea
Bargain. A form
of justice in
which a non-celebrity
defendant pleads guilty to a crime only slightly more serious than the
one he committed (or didn't) in order to avoid receiving a verdict of
guilty
for the far more serious crime the prosecutor
is charging him with, based on the available evidence.
Police. 1)
Paid guardians
of public safety
and the law.
2) An interesting but incorrect alternate definition is contained in
the
following entry penned by the Nutz Station Journal columnist
known
as The Gadfly:
The mortar in the soaring edifice of state designed to
protect
us from dangers within and without the walls, though not from the walls
themselves nor the dangers posed by mislaid bricks and misanthropic
mortar.
Police
Testimony. A
universally approved variety of Amerian perjury
in which police
alter facts and circumstances in
order to facilitate conviction of the guilty.
Political.
1) Having to
do with politics
and/or politicians.
2) Not personal,
except insofar as may be necessary
to achieve desirable
political ends.
Political
Correctness.
A system of language conventions designed to effect the appearance of love
by concealing the existence of negative human feelings
such as dislike, disdain, disgust, contempt, pity, revulsion,
bitterness,
and scorn.
Politician.
Any person
who receives payment for participating in politics.
See also
Whore.
Politics.
The process by
which all important
decisions
affecting the Amerian
people are made, usually with the help of politicians.
Polls.
Various mechanisms for
determining the will of 260 million Amerians by calling a few hundred
Amerians
on the phone and asking them a number of leading questions about
matters
that have been splashed all over the mass media
for a few days or more.
Pornography.
Sexually
oriented material that is arousing to males. See Obscenity.
See also Bad.
Prejudice.
See Discrimination.
Presdent of
the United States.
Bill Clitton.
Prescription
Drugs.
See Medication.
Prig. See Hypocrite.
Principle.
1) Any political
point made by someone reputed or claiming to be a principled
person. 2) Any prepositional phrase following the word “principle” and
beginning with the word “of”: e.g., principle of fairness,
principle of equality,
principle of
justice,
etc.
Principled.
Any person
who does not not engage in unprincipled
conduct.
Privacy:
The Constitutional
principle
that a woman’s uterus
is a private
place, uniquely distinguished from every other place and person in the
nation by not being subject to search and seizure or any other form of
government intrusion, surveillance, or control.
Private.
1) Obsolete:
Nobody else’s business, period. 2) Inside the body of a woman; i.e.,
within
the uterus,
thereby commanding privacy.
(Note: the word is commonly misused as a synonym for “personal,”
which—unlike “private”—retains a broad though diminishing
denotation.)
Profession.
1) Obsolete:
A category of service—i.e., law, medicine, education, ministry—whose
practitioners
must: have an avocation to their field; acquire advanced or
graduate-level
education to prepare them for service to others; and conduct their
subsequent
careers in accordance with a standard of professional
ethics that transcends their economic self-interest. 2) A job
category offering high income. See also Whore.
Professional
Ethics.
Obsolete.
The standard of conduct required by practitioners of a
profession;
e.g., the Hippocratic Oath ("Do no harm") of the medical profession.
Typically,
such standards require practitioners to revere and honor their
professional
oath above all other ties, including
marriage,
company and firm affiliations, government service, and any conflicting
demands or wishes of their clients.
Profits.
The money companies
earn for the government, some of which may, on occasion, be paid first
to shareholders, who are allowed to deduct a percentage for themselves
before passing it on to the government.
Program.
An organized attempt,
enacted by legislation,
to promulgate good.
Prosecutor.
A lawyer
who works for the punishment of the guilty by amassing evidence
of unlawful
conduct, determining the appropriate
charge(s), indicting some defendant for double the appropriate
charge(s),
and employing police
testimony to obtain
either a plea
bargain or a conviction with the
maximum possible sentence.
Prosperity.
1) Abundant
cash and credit for everyone, as well as an unending supply of cool
stuff to buy with it. 2) Along with Jobs, the third
article of post-Christian
religion.
Pseudo-Intellectual.
A person who pursues learning, ideas, and the arts for the purpose of
obtaining
admiration, material success, power, or invitations to the right
parties.
Also, any person similarly motivated who adopts the appearance of
pursuing
learning, ideas, and the arts.
Pundits.
Those members of
the mass media
responsible for explaining exactly
why and how the Republians
are so screwed up,
out of touch, divisive,
and
partisanthis
time.
Q
Quality
of Life. Uh,
you know.
Quality
Time. The kind
of time mothers
and other parents
seek to spend with their children on the
days when
they don't have to be in daycare; i.e., hardly any time at all.
R
Racist.
Any white person who
fails to feel or exhibit continuous uncritical love
for any or all people who are not white.
Rap. 1) Phat
recordings of rhymes about life.. 2) An interesting but incorrect
alternate definition is contained in the following entry penned by the
Nutz
Station Journal columnist known as The Gadfly:
A vein of popular entertainment, often
confused with music,
in which practitioners demand attention to their usually sordid lives
and
preferences by shouting them in the form of rhymed couplets against a
background
of sound effects and bass beats. It is perhaps useless to point out
that
rhymes are to poetry what cymbals are to a symphony—often a component
but
never a synonym. And a profusion of cymbals is unlikely to redeem a
symphony
written by a sociopath, conducted by an idiot, and performed by the
deaf.
Real-Sized. Fat.
[Not
to be confused with
Phat]
Recollect.1)
Obsolete
To summon from memory. 2) A verb used strictly in the negative to
characterize
the absence of inconvenient memory; e.g., I don't recollect that
conversation,
I don't recollect the details of the meeting, I don't recollect any
mention
of possible legal issues, I don't recollect that anything of a sexual
nature
occurred on that occasion. See also Recollection.
Recollection.
1) Obsolete
A citation from memory. 2) A noun used only in the negative to stand
for
an inconvenient memory that does not exist; e.g., I have no
recollection
of the month of July, Senator. See also Recollect.
Reformed
Party. The party
that isn't sure what it thinks about Democracy,
as if maybe something is missing, but what the hell would that be?
Communism?
Fascism? Liberty? What does Papa Pyro think?
Republians.
Members of
the political party
that favors a little less Democracy
than the Democratics,
or at least would prefer
to see it develop more slowly, maybe five percent less and five percent
more slowly.
Rights. A
category of demographic
privilege—based on race, gender, sexual preference, age, ethnic origin,
physical or mental anomaly, motherhood, or Amerian citizenship—which
entitles the claimant to extraordinary protections and interventions by
the federal government, as specified by or ingeniously imputed to the Constitution
of the United States; e.g., Civil Rights.
Rights Groups.
Categories
of people or noncorporate organizations who seek rights
and other good
things with the help of lobbyists
in Congress;
i.e., gays,
women,
Afrian-Amerians,
teachers,
labor unions, lawyers,
doctors,
the elderly,
et al.
Right-to-Choose.
The
position of those who believe in the principle
of privacy.
Right-to-Life.
See Anti-Choice.
Right-Wing
Conspiracy.
A tight-knit cabal of 30 million angry conservatives
who began scheming to destroy Bill Clitton the moment he started
contemplating
an eventual run for the Presdency. Tactics employed by the conspirators
included tempting him with waves of Jane Does, luring him into the Waterwhite
real estate fiasco, murdering Vince Fodder in order to catalyze the
appointment
of an independent
counsel,
framing the White House for outrageous Campaign
Finance violations, and ensnaring the Presdent in a sexual affair
with
Monica Lewiski while proceedings were still underway in the conspiracy-sponsored
Paula Janes lawsuit..
Role Model.
A famous person—usually
a movie star, musician, sports star, supermodel, lawyer,
journalist,
or (rarely) politician—who
serves
as an exemplar for young people who have no interaction of any kind
with
estimable adults such as parents and teachers.
See also Slut.
Row V. Wade.
The famous
lawyer
who won the right to privacy for women
in the Supreme
Court.
S
Safe Sex.
1) The ideal of
virtual
human intimacy—two halves of an act of coitus separated by plastic, so
that satisfaction, though continually denied, may be sought with
greater
frequency and abandon. 2) Sex you can lie
about without getting caught in either a scandal or a divorce
proceeding.
3) An interesting but incorrect alternate definition is contained in
the
following entry penned by the Nutz Station Journal columnist
known
as The Gadfly:
When you find an unexamined oxymoron, look for a hidden
viper. Sex is not safe. As one of the most intense of human
experiences,
it is inherently dangerous, physically, emotionally, mentally, and
spiritually.
Hence, the thousands of years of cultural tradition which wrapped
sexuality
in morality, providing a degree of protection without attempting to
understate
the danger. Now, in our modern sophistication, we have elected to
replace
the wrapping—exchanging our yellowed morality for hot-pink plastic.
Perhaps
plastic is an improved protection for a society of children
whose
minds, emotions, and souls are likewise synthetic and tissue thin.
According
to the manufacturers, the experience of plastic sex is becoming ever
closer
to that of actual sex; however, there is cause to wonder if the truth
might
be the reverse of this. There exists an unpolled universe of dirty old
men who are silently amazed by a mystery no one mentions: that
intangible
something in the air which smells of falling temperatures in the ardor
of young men. What's going on inside those baggy pants? Or inside those
tiny skintight selves? No one wants to ask; is this because we do not
care?
Or have we rather consented, knowingly or not, to slowly bleed to death
the real cause of unsafe sex: the gender that is the
unsafe
sex.
Safety. 1)
One of the more recently
discovered Amerian rights; i.e., the right to be protected by the
government
from all bodily harm and injury which might be caused by persons,
objects,
institutions, and nature.2) Along with Health,
the second article of post-Christian
religion.
Science.
1) A subject mentioned
by teachers
in school, usually for the purpose of
encouraging positive feelings about
the environment,
medicine, evolution, psychology, and sexuality. 2) The religion of scientists.
Scientists.
The people
who look at everything under a microscope and wouldn't know what to do
with the wrong end of a telescope.
Self-Esteem.
The recently
discovered
Constitutional
right
of all Amerians to have positive, uncritical feelings
about themselves, regardless of any lack of learning, accomplishment,
effort,
discipline, talent, aspiration, or human development.
Senate.
The upper house of
Congress,
responsible for acquitting the Presdent during empeachment
trials, as well as for conducting trials of Supreme
Court nominees. The position of Senator is traditionally referred
to
as a "seat," in honor of the body part Senators employ in their
deliberations.
Senior
Citizens. 1)
The old and useless, because they're too busy doing drugs
to work anymore and pay hardly any taxes, which means
everyone else regards them as an annoying burden. 2) One of the most
powerful
of all rights
groups, because they pay hardly any
taxes and can therefore afford some really top-notch lobbyists,
which is why all the politicians
want to give
them their drugs for free.
Sensitivity.
See Niceness.
Sex. 1)
[Liberal] Coitus; i.e.,
penis-in-vagina
intercourse between a man and a woman. 2) [Moderate or Mainstream]
Coitus
and/or other acts which involve intimate touching between two people
and
result in climax by one or both partners. 3) [Right Wing] Any form of
intimate
touching, conversation, or spectating which results in the physical
arousal
of the Presdent.
See also Safe
Sex.
Sexist.
Any white male who
feels or expresses doubt that the only important differences between
the
sexes are those which reinforce the assumptive superiority of the female;
e.g., the capacity to experience and express feelings,
the biological capacity for motherhood,
and overall
sensitivity.
Sexual
Harrassment. Any
act or speech which causes a female to believe
that
an unattractive
male in her work
environment has positively
identified her as a member of the superior sex.
Slut. 1) A female
duped or paid by the vast right wing
conspiracy
to accuse the Presdent of sexual misconduct. 2) A celebrity who serves
as a role model
for young females.
Social
Security. The
all-important
safety net for senior
citizens, which the Democratics
wish to preserve
and the
Republians
(or Conservatives,
anyway) wish to destroy.
Special
Interests.
All lobbyists
who act on behalf of purveyors or
proponents of bad
things.
Spin.Untruth
employed in politics—including
lies, misrepresentations, and racially provocative innuendoes—for the
advancement
of justice, civil rights,
safety,
health,
equality,
love,
or the careers of those who advocate such advancements.
Spinning.
The act of telling
political
untruths.
Spinner.
Professional specialist
in the concocting of political
untruths and the
subsequent purveying of such untruths—in the form of talking
points—to people who either want to believe them or can be made to
believe them by hearing precisely the same words enough times..
States
Rights. The right
of the states to tax
whatever monies the federal government
fails to collect from individual citizens.
Supreme
Court. That
institution of the federal government charged with the responsibility
for
safeguarding the right to Privacy.
T
Talking
Points. Lies
packaged in the form of TV sound bites, short enough and punchy enough
to be remembered by an average Amerian who hears them twenty-four times
in a twenty-four hour period. See also Spin.
Tax. 1) verb
To collect
the monies earned by the Amerian people so that they can be spent by
the
government promulgating good. 2) noun
The amount
of money earned by the Amerian people less the amount the government
permits
people to waste on their own selfish desires.
Tax Cut.
An irresponsible
political
proposal designed to take money that belongs rightfully to the
government
and give it away to rich people who would spend it on themselves.
Teacher. An
abbreviation
for the term "underpaid teacher"; i.e., a member of the NEA
who protects children aged six through eighteen from damage to their self-esteem,
such as might be caused by demanding instruction in reading, writing,
arithmetic,
algebra, geometry, geography, history,
biology,
chemistry, physics, foreign languages, and Anglo-Amerian
literature.
Third Wurld.
The most
virtuous of human civilizations, acquitted of guilt for the crimes of
humanity
by reason of having: a. achieved no more than a subsistence
level
of economic prosperity; b. contributed little or nothing to the
development of western civilization; c. traded
acquiescence
for survival during the inevitable confrontation with a colonialist
oppressor;
or d. all of the above. The lowest achievers among such
civilizations
are also routinely accorded praise for having honored the planet's
environment
by failing to develop a technology capable of disturbing it. Almost
certainly
they will be lavished with even higher praise when their lack of
innovation
and adaptability causes to them to lose, at last, the basest of all
human
battles—the fight for survival.
Tobacco.
The evil
but
legal drug which
will kill all the smokers and
all the people who are ever in the same room with smokers.
Tobacco
Lobby. The special
interest which acts on behalf of the tobacco company conspiracy
to sell tobacco
to the people who want it.
TravelGape.
Treasury
Department. The
department of the executive branch
responsible
for collecting the money of people who earn income and keeping it away
from them by giving it to rights groups or
to the
Federal
Reserve Bank; the department is additionally responsible for
preventing
the people from overreacting to the loss of their money by smoking too
much, drinking too much, shooting too much, or assassinating the
Presdent.
TV
Journalism. The set
of activities performed by journalists
on TV,
covered to the extent possible by a knowing manner and the willingness
to substitute a becoming inclination toward good
for the traditional print pose of objectivity.
See TV
Journalist. See also Journalism.
TV
Journalist. 1) A
person who reads the news on TV. 2) A person who comments about the
news
on TV. 3) A person on TV who thinks TV is the news. See Journalist.
See also Whore.
TV Lawyers.
Lawyers
who specialize in celebrity law.
See also
Whore.
U
Uh. 1) You
know. 2) An
interesting but incorrect alternate definition is contained in the
following
entry penned by the
Nutz Station Journal columnist known as The
Gadfly:
The blinking cursor of human speech, often a precursor of
screen lockup and the imminent need to reboot.
Uncool. The
opposite of cool.
UnderNet.
The vast Gordian
knot of computers, software, and bad spellers who have nothing better
to
do than sit at a keyboard pecking and hunting, usually for porn.
(See the UnderNet, Hackerz Station, Shuteye Town 1999)
University.
Any of numerous
storage facilities for young people between the ages of eighteen and
twenty-two,
as well as the aging intellectuals
who serve as their babysitters; such facilities may also include the
trade
schools which provide training in the jobs categories
formerly designated as professions:
law, medicine, architecture, teaching, and ministry, as well as the
would-be
professions of business and journalism.
Unlawful.
Not completely
full of law,
subject to interpretation by lawyers.
Unnamed
Sources. Any rumor
anyone in Wishington
can make up, drunk
or sober, but preferably drunk.
Unprincipled.
Anyone
who dares to oppose or attack the person who is on camera right
now.
Uterus. A
rambunctious organ
in the female
body which occasionally assembles unwanted
collections of private
genetic material,
as well as the most darling little babies.
V
Vagina. 1)
The miraculous
passageway whose portals instantaneously transform a fetus
into a baby. 2)
The female
organ which is in contact with the outside of the condom during an act
of safe sex.
3) Two interesting but
incorrect alternate definitions are contained in the following entry
penned
by the Nutz Station Journal columnist known as The Gadfly:
a. The
Garden of Eden; i.e., the dark but deceptively comforting cave in
which
Mankind was conceived, from which he was ejected by a demanding father,
and to which he repeatedly attempts—when his courage or imagination is
too sorely tried—to return. b. The emergent controlling
metaphor
of human destiny, exemplifying the static ideals of physical safety and
thoughtless being, which have been elevated as replacements for the
dynamic
questing and creating once sanctified by the senescent (and now
impotent)
controlling metaphor of the phallus.
Violence. 1) The
inevitable
consequence of anger. 2) The expression of anger by a male.
3) Any action or speech which causes hurt to the feelings
of children,
racial and ethnic minorities,
or the majority gender.
Virtual.
1) Sort of, but
not really. 2) Universal descriptor for anything which happens on the Undernet.
W
Watergape.
The Mount Everrest
of political
scandals, as brilliantly executed
by Richard
Nixxon. Subsequent Presdents
have done their best to live up to this intimidating standard, but the
relative puniness of their efforts has served only to reinforce the
stark
fact that a scandal on the scale of Watergape is just possibly beyond
the
reach of ordinary mortals. Only Bill Clitton has come close to putting
a dent in the record, but not with a single Great Pyramid of a scandal;
rather, he has artfully strung together an unending series of lesser
stinks
that build to a noisome climax with the empeachment trial of 1999. Will
the sum total be good enough to provide him with the legacy he seeks so
desperately? Or will history demote
his hoped for
mountain range of scandals to a line of forgettable moral molehills?
Only
time can answer the question.
Waterwhite
Scandal. The
unfortunate by-product of the only attempt ever made by Bill
Clitton to earn money from a source outside the government. Back
when
Clitton was governor of Arklahoma,
he and Hillery
formed a real-estate partnership
with their friends Jim
and Susan
McDoe, and then they allowed the McDoes to purchase some swampland
with the idea of reselling it for big bucks. Unhappily, the swampland
(nicknamed
Waterwhite) turned out to be situated in Arklahoma, not Florda,
and nobody bought any. So Bill and Hillery split the costs of the
project
with their friends, allowing the McDoes to make the interest and
principal
payments while the Clittons wrote the losses off their income tax. For
years, no one cared about this except the McDoes, but then some
reporters
from the Newyork Times and Wishington Post went down to
Arklahoma
looking for dirt and found it at Waterwhite, wrapped up in a big white
ribbon by the vast right wing
conspiracy. For
the next few months reporters had all kinds of fun talking to unnamed
sources who told them that while the McDoes were making all the
Waterwhite
payments, Hillery did some legal work at the Rosabud Law Firm for an
S&L
owned by Jim McDoe, including getting him special treatment with an
Arklahoma
regulatory agency. Of course, the Rosabud Law Firm couldn't confirm or
disprove any of this because they had given all of the firm's billing
records
to Hillery for safekeeping. When the journalists
asked her about this, Hillery replied that she had never heard of the
McDoes,
the Rosabud Law Firm, or the state of Arklahoma. While nobody wanted to
accuse the First Lady of lying, the press
was starting
to get suspicious. Something had to be done, so Bill decided that the
first
priority was to get an informed legal
opinion about how serious the problems were. When he asked deputy White
House Counsel Vince Fodder
to look
into the Waterwhite records and get back to him with some
recommendations,
Fodder looked into the records and killed himself. When they'd all
thought
about this turn of events for a while, George
Steppinfetchoulos said the best way to handle it would be to have Janet
Rambo name an independent
counsel to look into it, and then maybe the independent counsel
would
kill himself and thereby put an end to the scandal once and for all.
Unluckily
for Clitton, Kennel
Star never did
kill himself.
Whatever.
All the facts,
details, explanations, questions, challenges, inferences, judgments,
comparisons,
conclusions, and thoughts that might be articulated if you cared to
have
a conversation about some topic, but you don't, so you say 'whatever'
instead,
because it simply does not matter.
Whore. 1) A
person—usually
female—who
trades her sexual favors for money. 2) A member of a profession—usually
a doctor, lawyer, or journalist—who
trades his professional
ethics for money,
power, or fame. 3) A politician.
Wife. The
partner in a marriage,
usually female,
who lies about orgasms
and headaches.
Will of the
Amerian People.
See Polls.
Wisdom. Obsolete
1)
The state of knowing the differences between right and wrong,
aspiration
and ambition, fulfillment and satiety, moderation and fear, virtue and
conformity, humility and weakness, bravery and recklessness, passion
and
hysteria, resolve and rigidity, meaning and sententiousness,
superstition
and sacrament, truth and rhetoric, and (between) wisdom and arrogance.
2) ???????????????????...
Uh, whatever.
Womb. What
the uterus
is called when the collection of genetic material it contains is
considered
a baby.
Women. 1) Obsolete:
Members
of the weaker sex who have reached full physical maturity. 2) Members
of
the female sex. See Female.
Y
Yo. Afrian-Amerian
slang for uh.
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