Now, in Slate, Jeff Greenwald fellates Obama and Spock at the same time.
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But Spock was the embodiment of logic. Obama is the embodiment of the Social Gospel, a melange of several elements, all illogical: collectivist economics, holy-roller religion, and the Cult of the State–the Superstition Trifecta. To mix SF/fantasy/pop culture metaphors, Obama would be Spock only on Bizarro Vulcan.
Spock: Excitable, isn’t she?
Sarek: She always has been.
Spock: Why did you marry her?
Sarek: It seemed the logical thing to do at the time.
Spock was the peak of possible human development, emotionally, in the TOS Trek era. Everybody who watched the series wanted to be able to do what Spock did: think logically. Calculate to the fourteenth place in 1 second. Communicate with living rocks. Have monumental arousals every decade (well, maybe except for the last one). The amazing thing about Spock and the Vulcan culture as portrayed then was their amazing religiosity, rites of growth and life and death and afterlife: the Vulcans were more godbothering than anyone else aboard the Enterprise.
But he was fictional, as I often reminded the costumed clowns of the local Renaissance Festival – besides, what did Spock or Vulcans have to do with the Renaissance? As admirable as he was, Spock was vapor. And to this vaporous god of the 70s Greenwald compares Obama? Doesn’t the left have any flesh-and-blood heroes with whom Obama can compare? At least any that won’t piss off most Americans?
Somebody shove a dilithium crystal up Jeff’s nose.
Maureen Dowd is a big thinker?
[…] was reading this blurb by Dan Collins on Protein Wisdon, concerning President Obama’s deep, deep cuts of $17 billion […]
Some writers are just beyond embarrassment.
Maureen Dowd is a big thinker?
Apparently, Barcky is a powerful intellect.
Spock wasn’t in charge, Kirk was. Kirk was rational and emotional. McCoy was the anti-Spock.
Kirk balanced both out.
(I liked Scotty better – the engineer who was capable of starting a bar fight.)
Or drinking the occasional alien invader under the table.
Soooooo, the once verboten “Michelle is a Klingon” jab is now allowed? Thanks, Salon!
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#10 Or anyone else on that ship. And do not insult his ship or his engines. Doing so is just asking for trouble – such as a few tens of thousand tribbles transported into your engine room!
Cuffy considering how useless Worf was I think it is still an insult.
Marine: “Where is the invader?”
Worf: “Ugh.” (goes unconscious)
Marine: “There! Light the area up!”
Officer: “You’ll kill Worf!”
Marine: “No we won’t, he isn’t a low-ranking redshirt! Thank God I wore a gold shirt today!”
Alien: Is there more?
Scotty: More? (gives alien a dirty look) Oh aye, there’s more.
(Scotty get up and opens Knight’s helmet on table, pulls out bottle)
Scotty: Ach, there y’are, m’little beauty. (blows dust off bottle)
Alien: What is it?
Scotty: It’s… It’s… (Peers at bottle) It’s green.