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Televised Yule Log Ushered in the Era of a Fraudulent Universe

Ushering in the era of a fraudulent universe is the Yule Log that burns brightly every Christmas season on televisions throughout the country. This tradition started in New York when in 1966 WPIX President Fred Thrower cancelled all programming on Christmas Eve and delivered a “Christmas card” to his TV viewers. As Tim Morrison writes in his Time article “A Brief History of the Yule Log”:

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Speeding Down the Fast Lane with Safe-T Man

One of the most comically absurd catalogs in our nation’s history is SkyMall, which has featured a kitty cat drinking fountain, a life-size garden statue of Bigfoot, a Night Glow Toilet Seat, a Wine Glass Holder Necklace, a Talking Smurf Toothbrush, a Dog Dung Vacuum Cleaner, and Justin Bieber mint-flavored dental floss. The catalog has entertained airline passengers who were desperate for a diversion as they waited for interminably long periods on the runway until air traffic control gave the pilot the okay for takeoff.

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Mock Apple Pie

In the early 1980s, I was living in the San Francisco Bay Area, majoring in English, and learning for the first time the difference between a phrase and a clause and a gerund and a participle with the fascination of a science geek’s first glimpse of cellular mitosis.

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