“Clark Kent is a persona Superman puts on to hide his real identity”
I’ve seen this in various forms over the years, mostly from “Comic Fans” that is to say skinny legged hipsters and dudes with soul-patches with no double-chin to hide. It’s the dissembling of Supermand versus Batman that places them as opposite ends of the Heroic Spectrum; where Superman is the Natural State of Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne is the natural State of Batman.
This is so far from correct that it would take a series of GPS Units to Lead you back to almost correct.
While Superman may be naturally super-powered and simply taking advantage of his extraterrestrial birth; he isn’t “Superman” because of his powers. Superman is Superman because he was Clark Kent first. That’s why Clark Kent is so convincing to the people around him; that is the natual state of Superman. He may be the premier superhuman of the DC universe, but Superman relaxes by doing crosswords with Lois Lane in bed, not tossing Meteors at passing Comets (just in case).
Batman, or “The Batman” relaxes by pulling on his cowl and beating up muggers. An Ideal night for Bruce Wayne, going 12 hours without being called Bruce or Master Wayne once. Batman is the Natural State of Bruce Wayne, Bruce Wayne is a costume “The Batman” wears when he wants to get things done. He also moves around disguised as criminals.
Writers come and go for these two Characters; but the fundamentals have been fairly solid since the mid-eighties. Superman is a powerful homebody named Clark Kent who loves his mommy and goes home to his wife at every opportunity. Bruce Wayne is the farcical personality that the Batman has adopted to allow his activities to be funded and provide the means for his crusade to continue; The Batman barely tolerates Bruce Wayne and would NEVER go home if he could hack it.
I should keep comics on hand for these rants. Oh Well.
The Snow is getting ready to come back! Damn! It’s mostly gone; but it’s bitterly cold here in London, but look at that forecast! It looks like the temperature is going to come up above 10 for a a couple days this week; that’s almost shorts weather around here!
After the snow is gone, we’ll see less of this!
Sometime this morning while I was still in bed and Jen was upstairs with me (we don’t go to bed until 3-4 AM on work nights) our downstairs toilet overflowed or backed up. This is the result:
This s the northwest corner of our basement, it looks better now as the water has stopped. This part of the basement does no’t have dry wall. Thank goodness.
The Water is cpoming down from a toilet that backed up / overflowed on our first floor. It overflowed right into a heating vent. DAMN!
When I pulled down the drop cielings I found mouse crap and a nice bag of seeds/rodent food hidden up there! How AWESOME!
More Mouse Crap! EXCELLENT!
But don’t ask Ari Armstrong how to do it.
So you don’t have to read the whole thing, here are the only fact(like) things in this article:
I spent Feb. 4 through Feb. 10 eating a highly nutritious, low-carb diet for $33.07, or $4.72 per day, less than food stamps provide. For a month in 2007 my wife and I ate a higher-carb — but still nutritious — diet for $2.57 per day each.
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My two most expensive purchases were a whole turkey at $7.77 and olive oil at $4.48. My produce included red leaf lettuce, onions, tomatoes, grapefruit and bananas. I actually prefer more carbs in my diet, so normally I’ll continue to eat modest amounts of grains, sugary fruits and occasionally even cane sugar.
Counting the only two purchase figures we are given: 7.77 and 4.48 Ari and his wife spent 12.25. 7.77 of that on a turkey that was either ludicrously small (as turkey tends to price out at about 3 bucks a pound off season) or they simply lied. I think that 4.48 for olive oil could be correct. Seriously, 8 bucks for turkey. The Cheapest turkey I saw at the thrifty bulk foods and serve yourself or else store today was 17 dollars. I guess when you live in an actual city and don’t shop at your dad’s store, the prices can be different.
That is all that is there in the Article about living on food stamps. The rest is a screed about how the Welfare state is theft. Now you don’t have to read the rest.
#4 posted by Anonymous , February 12, 2009 11:27 AMAbout a year ago my wife and I visited a Darwin exhibit at the Field museum in Chicago. She grew up in Northern Ireland and was educated in a Catholic school. Partway through the exhibit she started crying. She said she was never taught this stuff, didn’t really understand it until the exhibit, and felt stupid.
Less than 40% of US residents polled accept the existence of Evolution as a concept. That would be startling if what was discussed was any other country; but the USA produced Paris Hilton, Carrot Top and Sarah Palin.I can accept anything that excoriates the general lack of intelligence that marks North American society as a whole.
It is no wonder Americans are perceived as loud morons who lack the simple ability to locate their rectum using a map and two hands. Surely they would eat the map (once it was doused in cheese) and then proceed to lick their hands clean while denying the existence of said rectum. Later; when it was explained that rectum meant “asshole” they would drive to Texas and locate George Bush’s house in a near savant-like trance.
General Motors plans to invest $1 billion in Brazil to avoid the kind of problems the U.S. automaker is facing in its home market, said the beleaguered car maker.
According to the president of GM Brazil-Mercosur, Jaime Ardila, the funding will come from the package of financial aid that the manufacturer will receive from the U.S. government and will be used to “complete the renovation of the line of products up to 2012.”
General Motors to Invest $1 Billion in Brazil Operations — Money to Come from U.S. Rescue Program
Somewhere out there; there is a comptroller saying how this is a good idea for long-term goals and that it makes good sense. That comptroller needs to realize that they still have to deal with their neighbors.
Hannity Loves Him some Air Force Amy
Published by NiteMayr on March 9, 2009It’s all in fun when these things go down; but moralizers like HAnnity really need to act with some sense and NOT put themselves into these positions; either walk the walk or stop the talk. Okay?