N A T T E R I N G S 2011: March 2010

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Whores of Babylon or Life Imitating Art?

News out of the Vatican brings the "shocking" expose of a huge male prostitution ring being operated by top aides to the highest holy homophobe, Pope Ratzinger Benedict. The only thing shocking, really, is that it actually made the news. Did anyone actually expect that Ratzinger, the aging unreformed brownshirt, would rely on common Italian pimps to secure his boy sex slaves?

Where do I get these images that come to mind of wild Papal orgies involving sex, blood and torture in splendiferous settings - right under the nose of Michelangelo's magnificent paintings and sculptures, between the Bernini Columns involving Powerful Nazi perverts?

Oh yeah! Right out of the great Pier Paolo Pasolini's final oeuvre, "SALO: 120 Days of Sodom."

Perhaps the best, most accurate review of the "Ratzinger Sex Fantasy Film" comes from the Cinema Snob and is worth a look today...

The Roots of "The Culture Wars" written November, 2008

At the 1992 Republican National Convention, Pat Buchanan lobbed the first explicit attack on modernity, officially declaring a War on Culture in America.

Seizing the RNC podium and appropriating the GOP mantel as a platform to wage his long-fantasized Culture War, Buchanan delivered a rousing speech that presumptively enlisted the support of that party under the leadership of first President Bush.

Buchanan denounced the "radical feminism" of Bill and Hillary Clinton's " agenda [that] would impose on America -- abortion on demand, a litmus test for the Supreme Court, homosexual rights, discrimination against religious schools, women in combat -- that's change, all right," he said, "But it is not the kind of change America wants. It is not the kind of change America needs. And it is not the kind of change we can tolerate in a nation that we still call God's country."

Those words may ring familiar as they were echoed anew at the 2008 Republican National Convention, because the still powerful GOP continues to be a propitious vehicle for the marauding legions of backwardness and ignorance. They may have been defeated by and large in the latest round of national elections. But, to them, this was merely a set back and we can be sure they are already regrouping for their next assault on reason.

In the current transition back to a liberal Democratic Party-led government we must not allow ourselves to become complacent, over-confident or narrowly factional in our pursuit of a progressive realization of the Constitutional promise of freedom and equality for all of us.

Recall that, even after Buchanan called on his minions to support George the First that election went to Clinton. But they were far from defeated and eight years later they came roaring back with a vengeance by the name of George W. Bush.

If anyone thinks the reactionary Religious Right will just roll over and play dead while the Obama Administration does its best to clean up the phenomenal mess Bush left in his wake...

Well, need I say more?

N A T T E R I N G S 2011

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Whores of Babylon or Life Imitating Art?

JOIN THE PEACE TEAM

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Countdown to Withdrawal

OBAMA'S ACHILLES' HEEL?

Previously on N A T T E R I N G S...

Nattererings from Other Natterers

Media Natters for America

T & A

The Amazing Pavement Drawings of fellow Nabob, JULIAN BEEVER

The Roots of "The Culture Wars" written November, 2008

N A T T E R I N G S 2011

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Whores of Babylon or Life Imitating Art?

JOIN THE PEACE TEAM

How are we doing?

Countdown to Withdrawal

OBAMA'S ACHILLES' HEEL?

Previously on N A T T E R I N G S...

Nattererings from Other Natterers

Subscribe To N A T T E R I N G S

Media Natters for America

T & A

The Amazing Pavement Drawings of fellow Nabob, JULIAN BEEVER

The Roots of "The Culture Wars" written November, 2008