The World's Dirtiest Picture We turn a numerical corner. Everybody gets to practice writing their zeros. Everybody gets to keep on pretending that hypocrisy is not in flood tide and still rising fast. Aw, what a spoilsport. Come on, let's pretend things are not just O.K. but getting better. Let's pretend: We don't have security checks in stores, banks, hospitals, libraries... and airports. Let's pretend: The ice isn't melting and the oceans aren't rising. Let's pretend: The frogs (among others) aren't reproducing mutants (if at all). Let's pretend: Art hasn't become commodity because the artists have lost hope. Let's pretend: We didn't dam and kill rivers all over the planet. Let's pretend: Half a continent isn't going to die of Let's pretend: We're not cutting off a million foreskins every day. And while we're all busy pretending, let's be sure to continue to... ...give lip service to: The world's greatest democracy where 2% of the people control 90% of the weath.
...and give lip service to: A so-called election in which we got to choose between
...and give lip service to: A movie-TV-music industry that makes billions by dumbing down.
...and give lip service to: Religions which preach peace but when push comes to shove-it give their blessing to righteous killing.
...and give lip service to: Tolerance, while cranking up the old hate machine anytime anyone disturbs our affluent pretensions (blacks, gays, feminists, etc.)
...and give lip service to: Caring leaders who live in cocoons of protected luxury the likes of which the world has never seen.
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The scream dies away in time for the last example of us pretending stuff's O.K. and giving lip service to concern about the ultimate nightmare. Which brings us to the dirtiest picture in the history of the world:
People get put in jail for certain kinds of sex pictures. But this picture causes no problems. You can easily find on the Internet, download, use it for wallpaper, send it to friends and nobody will blink. So how is it so dirty? The object on the left is a reproduction of "Little Boy," the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima. The object on the right is a reproduction of "Fat Man," the bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki. Little Boy and Fat Man were assembled at Los Alamos in early 1945. Clearly, the two objects, Little Boy and Fat Man, spent time ALONE together in the same space in New Mexico during assembly and testing. And CLEARLY they copulated in the most UNHOLY manner imaginable. How do we know this? Because their offspring, now numbering 40,000 or so, blanket the globe. No typographical tomfooolery now. The stuff above is serious. This is serious beyond serious: 99.999% of the time we pretend that this devil's spawn doesn't exist, or, if it does, then we don't really need to worry about the fact that the nuclear warheads exist in number to destroy the world and are, most of then, on hair triggers. Aw naw, let's pretend that's not so. Let's give lip service to national defense while making some conscience-salving moves toward nuclear disarmament. A dirty picture? Naw, it's just a coupla bombs. No problem. We're better off pretending the bombs don't exist while we keep on devoting our energy to making laws so women and gay man can't control their bodies and people whose skin color is not white can't control their lives. END
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