Comments on: Everybody Have Fun Tonight, Everybody Wang Kryptonite http://www.extrememortman.com/washington-post/everybody-have-fun-tonight-everybody-wang-kryptonite/ Just When You Thought it was Safe to Take Politics Seriously Again Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:09:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 by: Micha-El http://www.extrememortman.com/washington-post/everybody-have-fun-tonight-everybody-wang-kryptonite/#comment-27413 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 03:26:37 +0000 http://www.extrememortman.com/washington-post/everybody-have-fun-tonight-everybody-wang-kryptonite/#comment-27413 Jim, "holocaust" was first applied to Jews by an English monk in 1290. Lent used to be the season for pogroms--Hitler didn't invent anti-Semitism (compared to the French, the Germans were pikers at it, until they applied industrial management). Martin Luther said some dark things, but I guess Lex Luthor is a pastiche of prominent plutocrats and antis from the "International Jew" period. The Man of Steel's arrival is late enough to have been based on Kristallnacht--reflecting all that crystalline imagery on the home planet, and in the Fortress? Identity is a gimme. We hardly remember, here and now, but Jews used to change their names. A lot. No kidding, look this up: there are pop-culture scholars who've made a career of it. The big joke is that some rabbi would have had to bring a diamond cutter to the bris--but face it, if you were looking for a first-rate diamond cutter, who would you ask first? Superman (early version) is the stuff of real myth, not camp; I also don't tolerate Lassie jokes, and I know what Kemo-sabe means. What's so funny about truth, justice, and the American way? Up and away. Jim, “holocaust” was first applied to Jews by an English monk in 1290. Lent used to be the season for pogroms–Hitler didn’t invent anti-Semitism (compared to the French, the Germans were pikers at it, until they applied industrial management). Martin Luther said some dark things, but I guess Lex Luthor is a pastiche of prominent plutocrats and antis from the “International Jew” period. The Man of Steel’s arrival is late enough to have been based on Kristallnacht–reflecting all that crystalline imagery on the home planet, and in the Fortress? Identity is a gimme. We hardly remember, here and now, but Jews used to change their names. A lot. No kidding, look this up: there are pop-culture scholars who’ve made a career of it. The big joke is that some rabbi would have had to bring a diamond cutter to the bris–but face it, if you were looking for a first-rate diamond cutter, who would you ask first? Superman (early version) is the stuff of real myth, not camp; I also don’t tolerate Lassie jokes, and I know what Kemo-sabe means. What’s so funny about truth, justice, and the American way? Up and away.

]]> by: Rick http://www.extrememortman.com/washington-post/everybody-have-fun-tonight-everybody-wang-kryptonite/#comment-27377 Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:04:24 +0000 http://www.extrememortman.com/washington-post/everybody-have-fun-tonight-everybody-wang-kryptonite/#comment-27377 I want to thank you for posting this important story, possibly at great risk to yourself. I didn't realize until seeing the comic panel that JFK knew Superman's secret identity. Did JFK know too much? <a href="http://rjlippincott.livejournal.com/560328.html" rel="nofollow">Did Superman kill the President?</a> I think we've finally solved it. I want to thank you for posting this important story, possibly at great risk to yourself.

I didn’t realize until seeing the comic panel that JFK knew Superman’s secret identity.

Did JFK know too much?

Did Superman kill the President?

I think we’ve finally solved it.

]]> by: Don Surber http://www.extrememortman.com/washington-post/everybody-have-fun-tonight-everybody-wang-kryptonite/#comment-27371 Wed, 18 Apr 2007 18:47:59 +0000 http://www.extrememortman.com/washington-post/everybody-have-fun-tonight-everybody-wang-kryptonite/#comment-27371 Now we know why Kennedy was killed: He knew Superman's secret identity Now we know why Kennedy was killed: He knew Superman’s secret identity

]]> by: Jim O'Sullivan http://www.extrememortman.com/washington-post/everybody-have-fun-tonight-everybody-wang-kryptonite/#comment-27364 Wed, 18 Apr 2007 18:01:00 +0000 http://www.extrememortman.com/washington-post/everybody-have-fun-tonight-everybody-wang-kryptonite/#comment-27364 An allegory, huh? Intersting. Krypton blowing up was the diasphora or the holocaust? Wait a minute. Too early for the holocaust. How does the secret identiy stuff factor into the allegory? The Frotress of Solitude. Lex Luther and Brainiac? C'mon. Elaborate! An allegory, huh? Intersting. Krypton blowing up was the diasphora or the holocaust? Wait a minute. Too early for the holocaust. How does the secret identiy stuff factor into the allegory? The Frotress of Solitude. Lex Luther and Brainiac? C’mon. Elaborate!

]]> by: Micha-El http://www.extrememortman.com/washington-post/everybody-have-fun-tonight-everybody-wang-kryptonite/#comment-27362 Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:26:42 +0000 http://www.extrememortman.com/washington-post/everybody-have-fun-tonight-everybody-wang-kryptonite/#comment-27362 Well, it's out of the bag now. True: Superman is an extended Hebraic fable, an allegory of the Jewish presence in America, made up by two Jewish teenagers in Cleveland. Before we said "Google it," there was "Youse can look it up." The joke was on Nietzsche, no? So keep in mind that one real Superman just took 9mm of kryptonite for the team, at VT. Well, it’s out of the bag now. True: Superman is an extended Hebraic fable, an allegory of the Jewish presence in America, made up by two Jewish teenagers in Cleveland. Before we said “Google it,” there was “Youse can look it up.” The joke was on Nietzsche, no? So keep in mind that one real Superman just took 9mm of kryptonite for the team, at VT.

]]> by: Maig Cruller http://www.extrememortman.com/washington-post/everybody-have-fun-tonight-everybody-wang-kryptonite/#comment-27347 Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:42:47 +0000 http://www.extrememortman.com/washington-post/everybody-have-fun-tonight-everybody-wang-kryptonite/#comment-27347 Did you get the idea for this item from CRC's Keith App-El? Did you get the idea for this item from CRC’s Keith App-El?

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