From: joemahoney1950@gmail.com   
      
   My fellow praisers of the pumpkin puffball; my fellow magnifiers of the   
   marigold mold.  Gather about and bow before me, gripping the greasy palms of   
   your fellow congregants.  Today's sermon is a consideration of Rush's 1974   
   classic, "Didacts and Narpets."   
     "Narpet" is an anagram for -- no, not for Mongo -- "parent."     
      
      
   So what is the connection between didacts and parents, and why did Rush write   
   a song about them?  A didact is one who instructs -- and parents, too, are   
   those who educate us.  Now, when I say "educate" or "instruct" I don't refer   
   to books or science or    
   any of that socialist garbage.  No.  A parent -- a father, such as my own, who   
   I described so lovingly in my previous sermon -- tells us who to be.  He   
   SHAPES us.  He DISCIPLINES US.  Sometimes he sodomizes us -- or convinces us   
   that we, like him, are    
   closet queers.  Got a wife?  For God sakes, sleep in separate beds!     
      
   The greatest modern depiction of a parent is indubitably Mr. Fitts from the   
   film American Beauty.  He INSTRUCTS his son Ricky, beating him, making him   
   take drug tests, and making him watch military men go through their drills.   
   And all the while, he    
   craves the penis of the man next door!  Now THAT, my friends, is a FATHER, a   
   DIDACT, an instructor, someone to look up to.  A closet sodomite who demands   
   rigorous honesty from his disciples!     
      
   Now, Rush penned the song in the liberal, decadent, decline of the 70s --   
   having recently watched the Communists in the media hound the honorable   
   Richard Nixon out of office.  Without Nixon, Rush realized, the world had no   
   didact, no parent, no role    
   model to look up to.  So they penned this song as a plea for such a man.     
      
   Some fifteen long years later, Rush's yearnings were sated with American   
   Beauty and Colonel Fitts; and some seventeen years after that, the WORLD was   
   rewarded with the election of Donald Trump.  This is why Rush retired; their   
   every wish and craving was    
   answered, and they saw no reason to struggle on.  They have been in a state of   
   bliss, of HEAVEN, ever since.  \   
      
   My many fellaters of the florid fungus, may you too find your Mr. Fitts!   
      
   Joe "Large and in Charge," "Spiritual Not Religious" M.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)