The Wow I Can't Believe That News Story Thread

OccultHawk · 05-05-2019, 12:53 PM

Once you reach the point where life is severely degraded you’ve entered the threshold of Ivan Denisovich. The refusal to recognize the devastating nature of American capitalism on its lowest tier employees serves to make the reading of Solzhenitsyn exactly half as valuable. And I say half because there’s two lessons to be learned from Solzhenitsyn: 1) the value of perseverance and 2) the nature of oppression. Not understanding that the kitchen or factory or Walmart has become your gulag is to have completely missed the second point and undercuts the universality of the literature. It’s applicable to what I am witnessing. Our willingness to accept and recognize this horrific truth is to render Solzhenitsyn still relevant.

Chula Vista · 05-05-2019, 04:19 PM

LOL! Jebus this is blowing UP!

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...430-story.html

Zhanteimi · 05-06-2019, 01:10 AM

Calm down! I'm getting my luggage here.

Lisnaholic · 05-06-2019, 06:26 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Once you reach the point where life is severely degraded you’ve entered the threshold of Ivan Denisovich. The refusal to recognize the devastating nature of American capitalism on its lowest tier employees serves to make the reading of Solzhenitsyn exactly half as valuable. And I say half because there’s two lessons to be learned from Solzhenitsyn: 1) the value of perseverance and 2) the nature of oppression. Not understanding that the kitchen or factory or Walmart has become your gulag is to have completely missed the second point and undercuts the universality of the literature. It’s applicable to what I am witnessing. Our willingness to accept and recognize this horrific truth is to render Solzhenitsyn still relevant.

^ That's a real quality post, right there. Can't argue with that, and I really like your analysis of the lessons to be learned from Solzhenitsyn.

Lisnaholic · 05-06-2019, 12:34 PM

Stunning news coming out of England:- Woman Has Baby

The mother and the baby are both well, and the father has announced that he is "absolutely thrilled."
Although it has not been widely reported, some insiders suspect that the birth may be the result of an act of unprotected coitus some nine months earlier.

OccultHawk · 05-06-2019, 01:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

^ That's a real quality post, right there. Can't argue with that, and I really like your analysis of the lessons to be learned from Solzhenitsyn.

Thank you.

**Frownland** · 05-08-2019, 01:56 PM

White House requires Big Pharma to list drug prices on TV ads as soon as this summer

Like trying to put out a housefire by opening a window.

The Batlord · 05-08-2019, 02:00 PM

"Holy **** that cancer medication is far too expensive! They'll not get a dollar of my money."

rostasi · 05-08-2019, 05:15 PM

Kentucky teen who sued over vaccine gets chickenpox.

The Batlord · 05-08-2019, 05:39 PM

I'm waiting for polio and smallpox to make a comeback so we can see just how committed anti-vaxxers really are.

05-05-2019, 12:53 PM	#17791 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	Once you reach the point where life is severely degraded you’ve entered the threshold of Ivan Denisovich. The refusal to recognize the devastating nature of American capitalism on its lowest tier employees serves to make the reading of Solzhenitsyn exactly half as valuable. And I say half because there’s two lessons to be learned from Solzhenitsyn: 1) the value of perseverance and 2) the nature of oppression. Not understanding that the kitchen or factory or Walmart has become your gulag is to have completely missed the second point and undercuts the universality of the literature. It’s applicable to what I am witnessing. Our willingness to accept and recognize this horrific truth is to render Solzhenitsyn still relevant. __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

05-05-2019, 04:19 PM	#17792 (permalink)
Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	LOL! Jebus this is blowing UP! https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...430-story.html __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

05-06-2019, 01:10 AM	#17793 (permalink)
Zhanteimi Mord Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Tokyo Posts: 4,873	Calm down! I'm getting my luggage here. __________________ Zhanteimi LetsTalkMusic

05-06-2019, 12:34 PM	#17795 (permalink)
Lisnaholic ...here to hear... Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: He lives on Love Street Posts: 4,444	Stunning news coming out of England:- Woman Has Baby The mother and the baby are both well, and the father has announced that he is "absolutely thrilled." Although it has not been widely reported, some insiders suspect that the birth may be the result of an act of unprotected coitus some nine months earlier. __________________ "Am I enjoying this moment? I know of it and perhaps that is enough." - Sybille Bedford, 1953

05-08-2019, 01:56 PM	#17797 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	White House requires Big Pharma to list drug prices on TV ads as soon as this summer Like trying to put out a housefire by opening a window. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

05-08-2019, 05:15 PM	#17799 (permalink)
rostasi . Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 4,007	Kentucky teen who sued over vaccine gets chickenpox.