Give a guy a thesaurus and look what happens!

--
Brian Denley
http://home.comcast.net/~b.denley/index.html

wrote in message
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November 2, 2006
by Jason Miller
Awakening to a masochistic impulse last Sunday, I opened the Op-Ed
section of my local paper, The Kansas City Star. Throwing caution to
the wind, I plunged headlong into the mind-engulfing thicket of
sophistry. Running for my intellectual life, I felt the collective
breath of the ravening wolves thirsting to rip the jugular vein
coursing with the life-blood of my capacity for independent thought.
Driven by an insatiable hunger to devour the cognitions of those who
strayed from the herd, the voracious pack pursued me with a vengeance.
Yet today I was moving with the agility of Brer Rabbit navigating the
Briar Patch. Powered by critical thinking and a fierce determination
to maintain my noetic integrity, I evaded the ferocious canines'
furious bid to sink their razor-like fangs into the succulent gray
matter they craved. Emerging from the tortuous copse, my psyche was
bloodied but intact. And more importantly, it remained free.

Burdened with a task as daunting as the Twelve Labors of Heracles, the
mainstream media strive with a fury to satisfy their demanding
corporate paymasters. Yet unlike Heracles, they can't luxuriate in the
knowledge that quiescence awaits. For theirs is a Sisyphean challenge.
Truth, the eternal and immutable one, anxiously anticipates the moment
his would-be assassins crest the summit where he is poised to hurl
them violently back to the base of the hill. Powerless to prevent
their relentless prevarication, Old Man Verity delights at the
opportunity to condemn them to perpetual toil.

Ostensibly fragmented and autonomous, the MSM duplicitously peddle
their perversions of reality in a seemingly cacophonous din of
independent truth-seekers. Yet how could such an incestuously
entangled group of entities owned by a handful of leviathan
corporations possibly adhere to a spirit of integrity? Acting in
unison to protect the interests of opulent shareholders and maleficent
politicians, print, radio, and television media embody the Ministry of
Truth Orwell envisioned.