Who Were the Sea Peoples?

I see closed captioning put up text like “somber piano music.” In the program, the somber piano music is setting a mood. But seeing the words “somber piano music“ hardly does the same work, does it? Is there really any point to verbal descriptions of the background music?

Leaving the 99 Cents store, I just saw the guy leaving in front of me “go to third base” with a manikin. As though it were a live woman, and he were trying to get it turned on!

Yo tengo que ganar un elefante Tengo que ganar una cerveza Tengo que ganar tu dulce amor Pero solo estoy un chico De las montañas de escribir Y entonces yo no sé nada Del amor como cumplir 

‘[Hooker’s] Puritan opponents were not partners in a theoretical debate; they were Gnostic revolutionaries, engaged in a struggle for existential representation that would have resulted in the overthrow of the English social order, the control of the universities by Puritans, and the replacement of common law by scriptural law… Hooker perfectly understood, what today is so little understood, that Gnostic propaganda is political action and not perhaps a search of truth in the theoretical sense…’ This “debate” ‘would have to be closed by governmental authority.’ (Voegelin, The New Science of Politics )

Progressive nitwits often complain about some comedian that “he is punching down instead of punching up.” Good comedy is about puncturing pretensions, whether those pretensions exist upwind or downwind of the comedian in his social hierarchy. It takes a progressive nitwit to understand puncturing pretensions as a violent act of punching someone, when actually, if the comedian is good, the puncturing not only gets a laugh, but also helps the target, as getting rid of our pretensions is good for us!

They’ve done it with cough medicine, decongestants, allergy medicine, and more. But they have missed a whole category, And I know I can hit it big with this one: Non-drowsy sleep aids ! I think I am going to call it Awake ! TM . 

“May actually help the turtlehead ensure that it’s pollen reaches another turtlehead.” This sort of evolutionarily “explanation“ doesn’t really explain much, does it? Because what happens when the explainer comes across a flower with many pollinators? Well, he’ll explain that “Having many pollinators helps ensure that the plant gets pollinated.”