InstaPunk Returns

I know he’s a bit blurrier than she is. We’ll get to that as we go. Just so you know, our stand-ins here are from the Beverly Hillbillies and All in the Family . Chosen pretty carefully despite any initial outrage you might feel. Forget politics per sē. The first is a programmatic drone, pursuing what she’s aimed at without regard to, or understanding of, the human issues involved. The second is an armchair hero of the masses, always willing to claim credit for himself at the expense of others.  Yes, I’m talking about Kamaltoe and the Coach. The saddest thing perhaps is that the fictional characters above are both superior to their photo stand-ins. Miss Hathaway was childless but did not spend her early career years with her legs waving in the air seeking promotions. Archie Bunker was at least honest about his ignorant, half-assed prejudices and presumptions. He wasn’t actually lying about a skewed perspective honestly reported on. Why the Harris-Walz campaign is a kind of ultimat...

  Published 33 years ago, The Boomer Bible is a satirical treatment of how we became a Post-Christian nation with politics finally siring its own atheistic religion at the hands of the Baby Boom generation.  It attracted its own following over the decades, although the New York Times recognized it for the attack it was and announced to the publisher that they would never review it. The book has become a hidden work but not a vanished one. Its 88,000 print run eventually sold out and copies new and used are still available from a variety of sources. Along the way, The Boomer Bible has spawned a variety of complementary productions in print and ion the Internet, including three dedicated websites, a book explaining the text’s complex structure and writing innovations, a brief sequel scripture spoofing the decline of youthful literacy in the 21st Century, and a complete page-by-page photographic reproduction of the original book in the Modern Archive.  How is it different f...

  Where’s your William Blake? Twice in my life I have looked at women unblinkingly. When I went through a painful divorce in the 1990s and now when I am old and losing testosterone to the point that I agree with Samuel Johnson that sex is just a ridiculous position offering fleeting pleasure. All the ads for testosterone boosters we see on teevee strike me as sad. Graduating from sex is the male opportunity for wisdom. Why are we so desperately anxious to forgo the opportunity? I have questions I have posed no one has ever attempted to answer. Women are mad about the patriarchy. Why was there ever a patriarchy? Men in recorded history have always protected women to the point that female life spans were longer than male life spans. Women were the mothers of children. The future of the family and the species. It didn’t matter that they were otherwise less. Fairer but weaker, and somewhat dumber. As befitted their role. They cared about the children while men cared about everything el...

 Seemed like too much was going on. You’ll have to look at the Commennts. He was 79, first Babe of the Boom. https://www.theboomerbible.com/tbb378.html https://instapunkreturns.blogspot.com/2024/07/what-paul-harvey-used-to-call-rest-of.html

A little bit of a thought piece. Just a little bit. I know nobody’s up to much thought these days. But I’m a huge fan of Canadian philosopher/rockstar/poet Leonard Cohen, who assures me, “ There is a crack in everything . That’s how the light gets in.” Found a crack. At a site called Raw Story. Written by Sarah Burris. Went like this: FTA: <<That's mean to Elvis!' MSNBC panelists laugh at comment that Trump's in 'fat Elvis' phase… MSNBC panelists couldn't help but chuckle Monday afternoon after The Bulwark's Charlie Sykes identified former President Donald Trump as being in the "fat Elvis stage of his career." Former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) praised Sykes's comment on Monday morning, which started the network off. "I've got to give a shout-out to my friend Charlie Sykes," McCaskill said at the top of Nicolle Wallace's show. "I spit coffee over the weekend when I saw how he referred to Trump, that Trump is in the...