BRAIN: Organ sometimes used by human beings to think. But not often.
COPS: Uniformed officials of the State used to keep the poor in their place—usually jail.
BULLSHIT: Term used by human beings to describe most human discourse. See baloney.
The MASS MEDIA: That collection of television, radio and print outlets responsible for passing on to the people whatever issues and attitudes those in power want passed on to the people.
PENIS AND BALLS: Human organs noted for acting independently of the brain. Leading determinate of male behavior.
SLEEP: State in which human consciousness rests. Often not distinguishable from waking state.
WALMART:. Famous for shifting hundreds of thousands of jobs overseas, paying its employees peanuts, driving thousands of small businesses out of business, and making members of the Walmart family billionaires. Consistently voted by Chamber of Commerce Corporation of the Year.
MOHAMMED ALI: Black American boxer who changed the culture of sport and was wise enough to see through the lies of the nation he was born in and stand up against them. One in a million human being.
MARTIN LUTHER KING: Civil Rights activist who opposed American military invasions of other countries, opposed the inequalities of wealth, opposed suppression of labor, and opposed his society’s efforts to keep Negroes second class citizens. Remembered only for the last.
IMPERIALISM: That process by which wealthy western nations for three centuries dominated and impoverished much of the rest of the world. Not mentioned in American dictionaries.
UNITED KINGDOM: Neither united nor a kingdom, but hanging in there as if it were both.
CONSUMER: A human being in an advanced civilization.
PRIMITIVE MAN: A human being who is not a consumer.
CORPORATION: an entity granted by the U.S. Supreme Court with all the rights of an individual, and none of the responsibilities of an individual.
MODERN WESTERN CIVILIZATION: that advanced state developed by (mostly white) human beings to make the majority of human beings miserable.
MUSIC and DANCE: Humankind’s most wonderful inventions: pure play.
FOOTBALL: That sport that legalizes Black Men hitting white men as hard as they want. Favorite sport of Black Men.
FENCE ALONG THE ENTIRE MEXICAN BORDER: a mythical construction in the religion of some Republicans. See angels and unicorns.
HUMAN BEINGS: the planet’s way of committing suicide.
GAZA: An open-air penal colony on the Mediterranean where most all are serving life sentences, and prison riots against the wardens are punished severely.
ANOTHER IDEA: What the Universe generates whenever a human comes up with a plan.
SAUDI ARABIA: the country that contributed 18 of its citizens to killing more than two thousand people at the NYC trade center, that suppresses most women’s rights, that beheads people on a regular basis, that contributes money to support Sunni terrorists like ISIS, that bombed Yemen back into the stone age, and has been America’s favorite nation among Arab countries for more than 70 years.
POPE FRANCIS: an unusual human being who believes money is corrupting human morals. He seems to want to have an economic system that puts human beings and the planet earth at the center of any enterprise or corporation, rather than profits for the owners and executives. Many Americans suspect a secret communist.
LEGAL SYSTEM: A complex system of laws designed to keep in place the established system of government and financial dealings. Like all systems in modern capitalist nations the system works for people with money but not for those without money. As a result people are prosecuted for breaking trivial laws involving very little money, but rarely prosecuted for crimes involving millions.
DOGS: Man’s best friends. More intelligent creatures know better.
INHERITANCE TAXES: Taxes encoded in law to distribute slightly the excessive wealth of the rich to the general population and thus give the people a slightly fairer chance to play in the money game. Currently being dismantled by the wealthy and their representatives so that the people won’t have a slightly fairer chance to play in the money game.
GOD: An imaginary Entity given different attributes by every human being. Considered by many to have created Man in His Own Image. Yet few blame Him for this.
IRAQ: Nation that has been continuously bombed by the United States and sometimes other countries for 25 years. Not considered a favorite vacation destination. See Isis.
GLOBAL WARMING: An ongoing process denied by many Americans because they are able to see clearly that it is sometimes quite cold out.
TELEVISION: The primary source of most human opinion. Originally mistaken by early Protean visitors as household altars.
BITCH: Female dog. Also female human having a bad day. See asshole and bastard..
MADNESS: doing the same thing over and over while each time expecting a different and better result. See U.S. military interventions. See also, American elections.
NETWORK NIGHTLY NEWS: a half-hour TV program during which lengthy and important commercials are interrupted by occasional discussions of trivial recent events.
OLD AGE: Considered by some humans as pretty much a disaster and others as a mellow old time full of fun. Brains don’t remember, arms don’t lift, feet don’t run, penises don’t rise, sounds don’t register, food doesn’t taste, friends all die, but otherwise a mellow old time full of fun.
TEENAGER: Human between the ages of 13 and 19. Noted for doing things of which human beings over the age of 30 violently disapprove.
TERRORIST: anyone who perpetrates an act of violence against unarmed human beings. In American usage, does not include actions by members of American police forces or the American or Israeli military.
CAPITALISM: that economic arrangement whereby Corporations and the extremely wealthy arrange the system so that they control the media, the politicians, and all branches of the government, and thereby guarantee that the bank accounts of the wealthy, by the wealthy and for the wealthy shall not perish from the earth.
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