OK! We get it. You-don’t-like-Ann-Coulter. Fine. Now tell us, specifically, what was so offensive? And please get to the point.
She openly attacked religious pluralism, and while probably a well crafted statement devised before being on stage, she also implied that non-Christians have religious traditions unworthy of inclusion in the American society while on stage.
She fundamentally attacked the basic tenants of a single religion, Judaism, but it has wider implications. She then questioned a man’s religious conviction on national TV, as a guest of his show, in his house, and then used a sterotype from a Jewish sitcom to back up her case, showing her absolute ignorance of first person experience on the subject....
She just piled on the stoopid and the ignorance in that interview.
It started out innocently enough. I began to think at parties now and then — just to loosen up.
Inevitably, though, one thought led to another, and soon I was more than just a social thinker.
I began to think alone — “to relax,” I told myself — but I knew it wasn’t true. Thinking became more and more important to me, and finally I was thinking all the time.
That was when things began to sour at home. One evening I turned off the TV and asked my wife about the meaning of life. She spent that night at her mother’s.
I began to think on the job. I knew that thinking and employment don’t mix, but I couldn’t help myself.
I began to avoid friends at lunchtime so I could read Thoreau, Muir, Confucius and Kafka. I would return to the office dizzied and confused, asking, “What is it exactly we are doing here?”
One day the boss called me in. He said, “Listen, I like you, and it hurts me to say this, but your thinking has become a real problem. If you don’t stop thinking on the job, you’ll have to find another job.”
This gave me a lot to think about. I came home early after my conversation with the boss. “Honey,” I confessed, “I’ve been thinking...”
“I know you’ve been thinking,” she said, “and I want a divorce!”
“But Honey, surely it’s not that serious.” “It is serious,” she said, lower lip aquiver.
“You think as much as college professors and college professors don’t make any money, so if you keep on thinking, we won’t have any money!”
“That’s a faulty syllogism,” I said impatiently.
She exploded in tears of rage and frustration, but I was in no mood to deal with the emotional drama.
“I’m going to the library,” I snarled as I stomped out the door.
I headed for the library, in the mood for some Nietzsche. I roared into the parking lot with NPR on the radio and ran up to the big glass doors.
They didn’t open. The library was closed.
To this day, I believe that a Higher Power was looking out for me that night. Leaning on the unfeeling glass, whimpering for Zarathustra, a poster caught my eye, “Friend, is heavy thinking ruining your life?” it asked.
You probably recognize that line. It comes from the standard Thinkers Anonymous poster.
This is why I am what I am today: a recovering thinker.
I never miss a TA meeting. At each meeting we watch a non-educational video; last week it was “Porky’s.” Then we share experiences about how we avoided thinking since the last meeting.
I still have my job, and things are a lot better at home. Life just seemed easier, somehow, as soon as I stopped thinking. I think the road to recovery is nearly complete for me.
Maybe life would be easier if we were if we were all islamic jihadists.
bwhaahaha there IS no point, coffee...this is the KABUKI theater ‘i’m oh so horrified’ act that bores us every time some lefty doesn’t/cant handle annie explaining things to ‘em...
she uses satire and irony to bring home her points ...they, on the other hand, either never can quite comprehend what she’s saying or they get it but just get off on kabuki bwahahaa ...its really quite funny......at times......... boring at others....
carry on PRINCESS ANN.