Activity

… “Humanity makes healthcare more technological”. … just a suggestion for their next billboard.
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Here are a few others they might choose from … oldies but goodies …
“WAR IS PEACE,” “FREEDOM IS SLAVERY,” “IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.”
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Here are two others for consideration:
Paul Ehrlich receives MacArthur Fellowship. (although virtually none of his predictions have come to pass, much like the Jehovah Witness predictions. If memory serves … the end of the world [more or less] 1878, 1881, 1914, 1918, 1925, and 1975)
Barack Obama receives Nobel Peace Prize. (Then becomes Wedding Strike, Civilian Collateral Damage Droner in Chief –
“What is it?,” I said. “A bee war?” – with apologies to Kurt Vonnegut)
or to quote the text from a Doonesbury Cartoon from Sunday 25 January 1987 “Teaching is Dead”-
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Professor: …And for tomorrow I want you to write an essay on the topic of independent thought. Everyone got that?
Students: All students Baaa! Baaa! (Students continue in each frame to “scratch” and “scribble” mindlessly)
Professor: And in my view, Jefferson’s defense of these basic rights lacked conviction, Okay. Any discussion of what I’ve covered so far? (Professor thinking to himself) Of course not. You’re too busy getting it all down.
Professor (goes on multi frame rant): Let me just add that personally I believe the bill of rights to be a silly, inconsequential recapitulation of truths already found in the consitution, any comment? No scratch that! The constitution itself should never have been ratified!
It’s a dangerous document! All power should rest with the executive! What do you think of that? Jefferson was the antichrist! Democracy is fascism! Black is white! Night is day! Teaching is dead.
Student 1 to Student 2: Boy, this course is really getting interesting.
Student 2: You said it. I didn’t know half this stuff.
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Communism, [today I would alter it slightly to read any -ism or movement] like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H ..L. Mencken
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“Power to the Boobousie!”

Sounds like a new drug called Oxymoron..