Facts of Life

Author: faminto9

Date: September 8, 2002

by faminto9
9-08-02
I don't get this. 68% of the American people firmly believe Elvis is still alive. 52% of those swear he's married to Marilyn Monroe, and the two live in a nursing home near Cincinatti
American culture is perenially obsessed with dead pop icons, in a pathetic attempt to fill the enormous void in their shallow, competitive, often tyrannical society
And get this: the correlation between successful OVNI-themed blockbusters and the immediate increase of NASA's budget for classified researches has finally been established
The American space studies program still reflects the subdued nature Cold War has assumed after the fall of Socialism, symbolizing its crunching and the lack of valid alternatives to Capitalism
I hate you. Don't you ever feel puzzled? Tortured by a seemingly unsolvable question?
How the hell does Popeye bite that pipe? Piercing it to his cheek? Are we supposed to ignore the laws of Physics just 'cause it's a damn cartoon??