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Dan Starr, June 9, 2008

One of the best screeds I've read in a while. Strausbaugh hooked me when he described the devolution of our space program--going from the glory days when we were "banging the moon" with huge white phallic rockets, to the current day when we're just "taking the shuttle in and out of the garage." From there he builds a convincing case that we are becoming a nation of fat, unambitious, hyper-sensitive, politically-correct, always-victimized, fundamentalist, anti-intellectual Sissies living in a virtual reality he calls "Fundadome." Strausbaugh's taking on a mindset and a culture, not any specific politician or group, so he skewers George W Bush and Al Gore, Christian and Muslim fundamentalists, corporatists and "bullsheviks" with equal glee. He's politically incorrect, a bit over the top at times, and consistently rude and impolite, but I think he's on to something. He doesn't really offer any detailed remedies beyond get off yer butt, turn off the computer and get out into the world (well, he offers one alternative that's properly insane, but I don't want to give it away). Maybe that's all we really need.

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