Waxing Poetically: Addressing Culture with a Twist of Poetry

What’s the real story with Afghanistan? Judge for yourself and leave a comment.

Inside Afghanistan with Ben Anderson: Part 1

Wax for the facts.

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Yes, an article in today’s Huffington Post by Jason Linkins is actually reporting that conservative viewers of comedian Stephen Colbert’s satirical Colbert Report actually believe he is serious on some issues. A study of both conservative and liberal opinions by Ohio State University for the International Journal of Press/Politics entitled “The Irony of Satire: Political Ideology and the Motivation to See What You Want to See in The Colbert Report” concludes that conservatives feel Colbert earnestly dislikes liberalism and only pretends to be joking while liberal-leaning viewers take the show as a total satire of the ridiculous. Ultimately, the final results showed that “perceptions of Colbert’s political opinions fully mediated the relationship between political ideology and individual-level opinion.” In other words, one’s party line directly affects how Colbert’s humor is read.

Here is one such example:

Posey actually responded to the “alligator alegations in The Orlando Sentinel remarking wholeheartedly, “I expected there would be some civil debate about it, but it wasn’t civil…There is no reason to say that I’m the illegitimate grandson of an alligator.”

Could it be that politicos of all types take themselves too seriously - that they are so blinded by ideology that an unambiguously satirical fake news show on a network actually named Comedy Central has people taking umbrage with it for its “serious” suggestion that Representative Posey actually has a grandpa who is an alligator? Yes… apparently that is the case. To paraphrase Father James Martin, humor keeps one humble about oneself and speaks to a certain truth. What does this speak of any more than partisans blinded by their own self-importance?

Wax well in good humor!

Photo of the Day an Video of the Day return tomorrow.

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As many of you may know, this past Wednesday FOX News anchor Shepard Smith spoke out against Torture and a growing conservative base who believes torture techniques may have been helpful despite a counter argument that torture can and has elicited false confessions (as was the case with John McCain) and mental instability in its subjects, and the glaringly apparent hypocrisy of condoning torture when many conservatives readily identify themselves as Christians. They love their enemies like most of us… when it’s convenient.

(Watch Smith’s comments in this Huffington Post feature).

Wax for what you believe in even if no one else does!

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Today comes part two and three of this documentary on humor in the religious life and how being too serious can be destructive to one’s sense of humility.

Both videos upload by YouTube member LoyolaPress

Wax for God’s laughter!

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Here’s a a bit of levity for the weekend. This guy probably didn’t get a lot of attention on the playground… I kid!

Wax in good humor!

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Note to Christians: Note that these views are exactly parallel to those of Christ in morality and while they differ in theology, it is also to be noted that these views were expressed said 500 years prior to Christ’s birth.

Timeless Quotes From the Buddha from Gerald Penilla on Vimeo.

Wax unto others.

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A bit of a help for all you bloggers who want mega-traffic. You’ll thank me. Thank you to Hope as well!

Uploaded by YouTube member keywordhope

Wax for keywords.

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Bush does stand-up. Jon Stewart prepares America for Socialism. AAAAHHHHHHHHH!

For Tuesday, April 21, 2009

(2007)

For Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Wax hilariously!

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Where do they find these people?

Uploaded by YouTube member ZishanAllibhai

Wax smarter than a fifth-grader.

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This is a joke… but how far off is it really?

Treasury Department Issues Emergency Recall Of All US Dollars

Wax Canadian?

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