The Screaming Pope

Rants and reactions to contemporary politics, art and culture.

Thursday, February 28, 2019

The Final Solution: R. Kelly and Climate Change

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"F ake News” is Trump’s favorite refrain. But what about “Fake Weather.” Not to deny climate change, El Nino, the devastation pr...
Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Will You Answer This Brief Survey?

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Undoubtedly you’ve called an airline, an insurance company or some utility and after you go through the prompts and are waiting to sp...
Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Treating Your Military-industrial Complex

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Peace is intolerable. Otherwise mankind would have more of it. Benevolent despotism is the closest thing that most societies know whe...
Monday, February 25, 2019

Will Self-driving Cars Be Covered by Medicare?

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A Waymo Self-Driving Car (photo: Grendelkhan) What to do when your new car is six months old? Take it to a pediatrician naturally. Now ...
Friday, February 22, 2019

Last Exit

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Traffic is a wonderful metaphor. Remember Aretha Franklin's Freeway of Love ? You cruise along and then you have bottlenecking. Y...
Thursday, February 21, 2019

What to Shop for in a Therapist?

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When you’re young you look up to parents, teachers, coaches and other authority figures as bearers of truth. Of course high on this lis...
Wednesday, February 20, 2019

The Final Solution: Getting Into Stirrups

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stirrup (photo: BLW) There are two classes of people who're likely to be getting into stirrups. Cowboys or cowgirls who are mountin...
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Francis Levy's debut novel, Erotomania: A Romance, was released in August 2008 by Two Dollar Radio. His short stories, criticism, humor, and poetry have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, The Village Voice, The East Hampton Star, The Quarterly, Penthouse, Architectural Digest, TV Guide, The Journal of Irreproducible Results, and other publications. One of his Voice humor pieces was anthologized in The Big Book of New American Humor (HarperCollins). His collection of parables, The Kafka Studies Department with illustrations by Hallie Cohen will appear in September.
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