I hang my head in shame that Doc40 completely forgot to appropriately recognize the 100th birthday of John Wayne (Marion Robert Morrison) last Saturday. Of course, he’s been dead since 1979, but that’s beside the point. To make up for the omission, however, here is one real manly picture of the Duke who – despite having weaseled out of World War II anyway he could* – was the unrivalled hero of every hippie hating, pick-up driving redneck, and gay bashing, gung-ho blow-hard who ever owned a shotgun rack or cursed the damned commie fags and figured the Indians had it coming. Behold above the man who was the global symbol of American masculinity and sure and certain certainty that the US of A was the greatest darned number one country on the face of the Earth, pilgrim.
* kinda like Dick Cheney and Vietnam. The Duke had more important things to do. Like making war movies where everyone’s only firing blanks, and shooting stops for lunch and cocktails.
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ReplyDeleteWhile remembering to remember, how about Rachel Carson, who would've turned 100 on Sunday?
ReplyDeleteI guess today they'd be calling her a terrorist. The fascists are starting to blame her for rise of malaria, but "Carson was never against the use of DDT. She was against the misuse of DDT." (The Nation)
Possibly the greatest words ever bellowed by the band MDC:
ReplyDeleteHe was a Nazi
But not anymore!
He was a Nazi
Death evens the score!