MooPig Brain Industries :: "Parody Contention and Cookies"

Could it be True?
Gathered by Pat Darnell  |  Mar 29, 2013  |  Bryan TX

... characteristics rewarded in our society, unfortunately.

Jon Ronson: WATCH: The Story Of A Man Who Faked Insanity: "My talk is based on my book, The Psychopath Test. It's in part about a man called Tony. He swears he faked madness to escape a prison sentence for GBH (grievous bodily harm) and is now stuck in a secure hospital because nobody will believe he's sane. It was the Scientologists -- brutally opposed to psychiatry -- who introduced me to Tony. It's also about the compelling theory that you are four times more likely to have a psychopath running your business than you are to have one as your underling."

'via Blog this'

" ... Bob seemed melancholy. It was as if the crash had made him introspective. He said, almost to himself, "I should never have done all my research in prisons. I should have spent my time inside the Stock Exchange as well."

I looked at Bob.

"Do you mean that?" I asked.

"I mean it," he said.

"But surely stock market psychopaths can't be as bad as serial killer psychopaths," I said.

"Serial killers ruin families," shrugged Bob. "Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies."

This - Bob was saying - was the straightforward solution to the greatest mystery of all: why is the world so unfair? Why all that savage economic injustice, those brutal wars, the everyday corporate cruelty? The answer: psychopaths. That part of the brain that doesn't function right. You're standing on an escalator and you watch the people going past on the opposite escalator. If you could climb inside their brains you would see we aren't all the same. We aren't all good people just trying to do good. Some of us are psychopaths. And psychopaths are to blame for this brutal, misshapen society. They're the jagged rocks thrown into the still pond. (Jon Ronson) ... "

- An EXCERPT from The Psychopath Test.




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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jon-ronson/psychopath-test-ted-talk_b_2973423.html?utm_hp_ref=daily-brief?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=032913&utm_medium=email&utm_content=NewsEntry&utm_term=Daily%20Brief
http://www.jonronson.com/psycho.html

MooPig's Vacation Like the Kennedy's :: "Carnival Cruise 'Dream'"

Re-hashed by Pat Darnell  |  Mar 15, 2013  |  Bryan TX

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New Ad Reflects the Reality of a Carnival Cruise | Mad Magazine: "For the second time in a month, a Carnival Cruise ship — this one called “The Dream” and henceforth known as “The Nightmare” — is suffering power outages and pesky plumbing problems.

Note: by “pesky plumbing problems,” we mean what passengers call “large amount of human waste all over the floor in bathrooms and staterooms.” On the positive side, we hear the view from the stench-ridden cabins is lovely this time of year. "

'via Blog this'

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http://www.madmagazine.com/blog/2013/03/14/new-ad-reflects-the-reality-of-a-carnival-cruise
http://www.popfunk.com/mens-tees/warner-bros-television/mad-magazine.html
http://www.heavy.com/regions/2013/03/carnival-cruise-dream-sewage-disaster/
http://www.wbay.com/story/21641409/2013/03/14/stranded-carnival-dream-passengers-flying-home

MooPig Food Recalls Department :: "Bumble Bee Tuna"

The Real Reason For the Bumble Bee Tuna Recall | Mad Magazine: "SEAFOOD FOR THOUGHT DEPT. Yesterday, Bumble Bee announced that they are recalling some of their cans of tuna because the seals were not tight enough and the contents could spoil.

Sounds like a perfectly logical explanation. A little TOO logical, if you ask us! All you have to do is take a closer look at a can to see…"

'via Blog this'

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http://www.madmagazine.com/blog/2013/03/07/the-real-reason-for-the-bumble-bee-tuna-recall
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/08/bumble-been-tuna-recall_n_2838668.html
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2013/03/08/bumble-bee-expands-tuna-recall/
http://www.bumblebee.com/
http://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls/ucm342851.htm

MooPig Home School Department :: "Houston's Best High School"

Catholic Case for Home Schooling
Collected by Pat Darnell  |  Mar 6, 2013  |  Bryan TX

These Kids Go to the Best Public High School in Houston - Page 1 - News - Houston - Houston Press: "The Michael E. DeBakey High School for Health Professions is this area's best public high school. It produces studious, high-achieving, self-assured brainiacs. The student body is a model of diversity: half the kids come from poor families, and students are evenly divided among African-Americans, Asians and Hispanics." (Todd Spivak. Thursday, Mar 2 2006)

We at MooPig Home School Department chose this article because of the author of the piece: Todd Spivak. Reference needed to MAD Magazine, required for disambiguation of that remark.

" ... MADtv (season 4) Pat Kilbane appeared as the Coffee Guy and the spokesman for Spishak, and performed his Howard Stern impersonation; (wiki. Mad magazine. LINK)

You see, SPIVAK sounds like SPISHAK ...
 'via Blog this'

" ... In 2010, the magazine's oldest and longest-running contributor, Al Jaffee, told an interviewer, "Mad was designed to corrupt the minds of children. And from what I'm gathering from the minds of people all over, we succeeded." (Michael Mechanic | Fri Sep. 24, 2010. LINK)

So, whatever Houston's finest high school does for students, MAD un-does it.

This post makes no sense. And that's all the News when you don't want it.

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http://www.houstonpress.com/2006-03-02/news/these-kids-go-to-the-best-public-high-school-in-houston/
http://www.motherjones.com/media/2010/09/interview-al-jaffee-mad-life-snappy-answers

MooPig TV Series Reviews, Intergalactic TV Watch Department: "Dr Who News"

Go Ahead, Ask the Question: Doctor Who?
Retrieved by Pat Darnell | Dec 7, 2012  |  Bryan TX

Dr Who Enemies: "Who done it?"

"Of course they didn't do that in my days, and I don't want to be a reactionary old fart about that but in my days, it never occurred to me to try and kiss a girl," he said. (the telegraph, dec 7, 2012. LINK)

'via Blog this'

There have been rumours that show bosses are planning a special edition reuniting all the surviving actors who have played the Time Lord, but the 75-year-old said he had not yet been approached about the idea.

Baker, who appeared in nearly 200 episodes of the cult show in the 1970s and 80s, said he was "amazed" at all the kissing done by the last Doctor, David Tennant, and thought the show's special effects were losing some of their impact, he added.

"I think it is quite difficult now to surprise an audience with special effects," he said, "you may please an audience, but visually you can't actually amaze an audience can you?

"In a sense you just watch them trying, but if people can appear and disappear and walk through walls and disappear and then carry on fencing or kissing girls, that amazes me."

Baker said his approach to the Doctor was to treat him as an alien, and this did not fit with Tennant's flirty approach.

"Of course they didn't do that in my days, and I don't want to be a reactionary old fart about that but in my days, it never occurred to me to try and kiss a girl," he said.

"I didn't even know how to shake hands with them."

Baker starred in a two-part Doctor Who special for Children In Need in 1993 with fellow Time Lord actors Peter Davison, Sylvester McCoy, Colin Baker and Jon Pertwee, but said he would consider doing something similar this year.

"They should actually try and do something like that and they should get a nice jolly script with them," he said.

"I don't know what it will be like and they haven't approached me yet and I'd want to have some say about the script.

"I'm not asking for Tom Stoppard to write the script but for it to be as I remember it and as the others remember their time."

A new series of five Doctor Who adventures on audio book, with Baker playing the Time Lord, will be released in September.

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http://scifiscience.co.uk/doctorwho/enemies.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/doctor-who/5942592/Tom-Baker-interested-in-Doctor-Who-reunion.html

MooPig's Brain Industries :: "Roundup by Monsanto"

Those Who Should Hear This will, of course, Not Listen...
Retrieved by Pat Darnell | Oct 14, 2012 | Bryan TX

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Roundup Herbicide Linked To Parkinson's-Related Brain Damage: "Published this month (April, 2012), the new study entitled "Glyphosate induced cell death through apoptotic and autophagic mechanisms," investigated the potential brain-damaging effects of herbicides, which the authors stated "have been recognized as the main environmental factor associated with neurodegenerative disorders, such as Parkinson's disease.("1"1 Neurotoxicol Teratol. 2012 Apr 4. Epub 2012 Apr 4. PMID: 22504123)

'via Blog this'

Are you feeling brain damaged? It could be 'Roundup' herbicide that you put down on those pesky weeds in your lawn. People around here use it like it is a deterrent to demon possession. They spray this Monsanto brand on all the errant grass that might creep into their flower beds... they spritz the stuff from their leaky little Indian water pumps into the environment like it was table salt.

If the millionaires next door use it, well then everyone should use it. Goddamn!

At article: ... EXCERPT | " ... Here we report a patient with parkinsonism following chronic occupational exposure to glyphosate. A previously healthy 44- year-old woman presented with rigidity, slowness and resting tremor in all four limbs with no impairment of short-term memory, after sustaining long term chemical exposure to glyphosate for 3 years as a worker in a chemical factory. The chemical plant produced a range of herbicides including: glyphosate, gibberellins, and dimethyl hydrogen phosphite; however, the patient worked exclusively in the glyphosate production division. She only wore basic protection such as gloves or a face mask for 50 h each week in the plant where glyphosate vapor was generated. She frequently felt weak. Two months before she came to our clinic, she had experienced severe dizziness and blurred vision. ... "

Is your hand shaking; is your finger numb? Have you been laying down 'Roundup' for the past ten years or more? Did you wear gloves and protective clothing when you sprayed the stuff all over the place? Did you wear a protective aspirator while you exposed your family, your neighbors and their pets to your mad induced brutal attacks on weeds and unwanted grass?

Modes of Toxicity

• Carcinogen
• Endocrine Disruptor
• Genotoxic
• Biocide
• Cytotoxic
• Bioaccumulator
• Hepatotoxic
• Teratrogenic
• Clastogenic
• Oxidant
• Aquacidal
• Mutagenic
• Aromatase Disruptor
• Glutathione Down-regulator
• Malondialdehyde Up-regulator
• Necrotic
• Nephrotoxic ( Sayer Ji. no date. HERE)

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22504123
http://www.greenmedinfo.com/article/glyphosate-pesticides-leads-neurodegeneration-caenorhabditis-elegans
http://www.greenmedinfo.com/article/effect-pesticides-cell-survival-liver-and-brain-rat-tissues
http://www.greenmedinfo.com/article/exposure-glyphosate-andor-mnzn-ethylene-bis-dithiocarbamate-containing
http://www.greenmedinfo.com/article/measles-vaccine-and-glyphosate-induced-parkinsonism-has-been-reported
http://wakeup-world.com/2012/07/30/monsantos-roundup-herbicide-toxic-to-life-in-parts-per-billion-range/
http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/research-roundup-diluted-450-fold-still-toxic-dna
http://www.greenmedinfo.com/toxic-ingredient/glyphosate
http://www.greenmedinfo.com/article/parkinsonism-after-chronic-occupational-exposure-glyphosate-has-been-reported

MooPig Presents "MAD's People Events and Things"

MAD Mag is MooPig Model
Retrieved by Pat Darnell | Dec 21, 2011 | Bryan TX

Written and illustrated by THE USUAL GANG OF IDIOTS

As 2011 comes to an end, we dive right into the deep end with the MAD 20 – our annual wrap-up of the dumbest people, events and things of the year! From Kim Kardashian to Penn State! Charlie Sheen to Casey Anthony! Herman Cain to Netflix! Tiger Moms to the Spider-Man Musical! It's all there – plus a ton of stupidity in between! And as if that weren't already more than you could handle, there's also The MAD Strip Club, Planet Tad, Sergio Aragones' MAD Look at Protests, The Fold-In and even more! So end the year on a truly dumb note – buy an issue!
MAD 56pg. Color $5.99 US (LINK)

Whoa: Mad Magazine’s Latest Cover - Big Journalism:

'via Blog this'

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http://bigjournalism.com/pjsalvatore/2011/12/19/whoa-mad-magazines-latest-cover/
http://images.wikia.com/maditsmadfunny/images/f/f9/MAd_Magazine_Issue_501.jpg

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What it means to think like a postmodernist :: Bill Gaines

Above: a 1963 photo of Bill Gaines entering the MAD offices. Poking their heads out of the door are (from top to bottom): Nick Meglin, John Putnam, Al Feldstein, Leonard Brenner, Nelson Tirado, and Jerry De Fuccio.

MooPig's Favorite Post-Modernist is Bill Gaines
by Pat Darnell | June 16, 2011 | Bryan TX

What it means to think like a postmodernist - National cognitive science | Examiner.com: "Godel’s incompleteness theorem)."

1952

Bill Gaines knew that the man who would edit MAD had to have a brilliant sense of humor as well as a groundbreaking visual sense. He had to be a man who could see through the phoniness of popular culture. And he had to be a man who could take a little 10-cent comic book and transform it into the premiere satirical force of the 20th century.

Unfortunately, that man was busy, so Gaines hired Harvey Kurtzman.

Also, in 1952...

The second issue of MAD goes on sale on December 9, 1952. On December 11, the first-ever letter complaining that MAD "just isn't as funny and original like it used to be" arrives.

1954

The storybook marriage of baseball legend Joe DiMaggio and tinseltown bombshell Marilyn Monroe soon goes sour due to MAD's corrosive influence. Joe becomes enraged as he watches Marilyn film a movie scene standing over a subway grating, her dress flying high in the breeze. Insiders assume DiMaggio is outraged because hundreds of drooling onlookers are ogling his wife's exposed thighs and buttocks. But what REALLY infuriates the Yankee Clipper is that his wife would debase herself in public by reading MAD.

July 1955

MAD Magazine is born (#24). Gaines and Kurtzman turn MAD into a bi-monthly, black-and-white magazine. More importantly, they get to raise the price from 10-cents to a quarter! Although it will be another year before he's named and adopted as MAD's official mascot, Alfred E. Neuman makes his first appearance on the border of MAD (#24) as the "What, Me Worry" Kid

Also, in 1955...

Not all the legal news is good for Bill Gaines and MAD. Without video games or rap music to pick on, Congress is forced to hold hearings on the dangers of comic books. This poses a direct threat to Gaines' varied line of titles: Tales from the Crypt, Crypt of Terror, The Terrible Crypt, The Terrorizingly Terrible Crypt Tales, and MAD. Gaines volunteers to testify before a Senate committee. It does not go well:

Also in 1955, MooPig's Founder, Pat Darnell, is Born in Ft Worth, TX ... June 4th .... during a tornadic thunderstorm.

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http://www.examiner.com/cognitive-science-in-national/what-it-means-to-think-like-a-postmodernist
http://www.dccomics.com/mad/about/?action=about1

http://mikelynchcartoons.blogspot.com/2010/02/from-1977-25-years-of-mad-magazine.html

"What, Me Worry"

MooPig Bureau Chiefs and Staff wish to thank its readership for having the gumption to stay on this page an average of 4.7 minutes, and to visit at least once every six months. It proves an old adage, "Here is the knitting needles; you still have to knit."

So much so, now we offer a newly recognized correlative that is very dear to many Editor's hearts; not just because we are scared little pig hearts at MooPig. Coming Soon; Look out for:

MooPig Brings you Poetry and the Mixed Martial Arts UFC Style

• Size them up
• Lull them into a trance
• Tackle
• Blow them away (ibid)
  

That's the Rules: If there is one thing MooPig has captured in its wonderful patrons,' it is their generous pathos, their onerous regard for bombast and sometime need for some good satire.

Admittedly these are the last century worries of Bill Gaines and the editor pool at MAD ind Magazine, handed down to the Pig and Cow.

Besides: It is certainty by now that there are more people in the blogoshpere today than there are in Beaver, Oklahoma, cow chip throwing capital of the world.

We will fight for the continuing support of Mr Gaines and his message to society, and the audience that he so gainly assured, "What, Me Worry" even if he did.