[who_would_fardels_bear]

Lots of nominally conservative media properties and think tanks are owned lock-stock-and-barrel by strange bedfellows like the Moonies.

I sometimes wonder if it all amounts to a more sophisticated and varied version of Orwell's "The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism" by Emmanuel Goldstein from Nineteen Eighty-Four.

[Flash Bazbeaux]

Mrs. Flash’s cousin is a Moonie, going on 25 years now. She got us tickets to see the Rev. at a hotel. He was boring.

I did feel a little wierd, though, when he exhorted everyone, in unison, to rise and open those peculiar looking plastic containers of grape juice that were on everyone’s table, and drink them all down together.