Archive for January, 2008
The Myth of Onan
Herbert Kuhner
There was a cartoon in Paul Krassner’s Realist decades ago. A man lifts up the flap of a tent in which a man sits cross-legged on the ground. “Hey, Onan,” the man outside says, “ya’ made the Bible!”
Onan did indeed achieve notoriety, and his name became synonymous with the singular action.
Here’s the story, according […]
Posted: January 30th, 2008 under Polemics, Text, Aktuell.
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Eager for Matrimony
Herbert Kuhner
These days, when marriage is no longer a social necessity, those who previously had an aversion to the sacred knot, like gays and profligates, are making a bee-line for the altar
Profligates, who enter respectable professions (such as politics), need a cover for changing partners and casual encounters, and what can provide that better than […]
Posted: January 22nd, 2008 under Polemics, Aktuell, Political.
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Noblesse Oblige and Hillary
Here’s John Spencer, who was Hillary Clinton’s Republican opponent for the New York Senate seat.
“You ever see a picture of her back then? Whew, I don’t know why Bill married her. ‘Whew’ she was hideous before ‘work.’ Noting Hillary Clinton looks much different now, he chalked it up to “millions of dollars” of “work!” - […]
Posted: January 20th, 2008 under Polemics, Aktuell, Political.
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Monotheism
The more I hear about monotheism, and the more I listen to monotheists, the more I am convinced that monotheism is bad news.
The Greek pantheism was an ethereal and colorful structure with very human gods. But the monotheistic God is not human; He is worse than human. And more than a modicum of those who […]
Posted: January 16th, 2008 under Polemics, Aktuell.
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A Short Life
The life of a handsome little boy was snuffed out. He left this earth at the age of 17 months before Christmas of 2007.
His mother’s boyfriend had severely beaten him and sexually abused him.
The mother brought the injured boy to a hospital, where his physical injuries were cared for. Then the authorities returned him to […]
Posted: January 13th, 2008 under Text, Aktuell, Stories.
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No End in Sight
The pernicious spirit of the Third Reich has been channeled into the arts, flowing with great ease, with no end in sight. The sado-masochistic ideology espouses extreme forms of violence such as pedophilia, rape and murder, including political assassination, and the vilification and killing of cripples. Its advocates operate under the sanctified carapace of art, […]
Posted: January 12th, 2008 under Polemics, Aktuell, Materialien.
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Harry`s Concert (Excerpt)
Harry Kuhner reads a statement (1948!) by Monsignor Otto Mauer at the occasion of the commemoration ’Reflections’ Otto Mauer, at the Archbishop’s Palace, Vienna.
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Filmed by Fritz Kleibel 1999
Sphere: Related Content
Posted: January 8th, 2008 under Aktuell, Materialien, Videos.
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Monsignor Otto Mauer, Austrian Patron of the Arts
Herbert Kuhner
In the Nineteen-Fifties Monsignor Otto Mauer, was instrumental in introducing modern art to post-war Austria. He founded the “Galerie St. Stephan” in Vienna and promoted such avant-garde artists as Wolfgang Hollegha, Josef Mikl und Markus Prachensky.
However, artists came on the scene, whose work transcended theirs in sensationalism. Rather than using such materials as […]
Posted: January 2nd, 2008 under Aktuell, Dossier, Political.
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