FOR STARTERS, YOUR CORRESPONDENT JUST HAS TO WONDER IF SUCH SPECIMENS OF THE GREATER CONSERVATIVE PROPAGANDA MASHEEN as pander to the same crowd who shops Wally World, for the most part--poor, undereducated, vulnerable and easily-influenced--as make so much about the presumed loss of American machismo to the emerging acceptance of homosexuals and homosexuality are probably closet admirers of one Dr. John R. Brinkley of goat-gland implant notoriety back in the 1920's and 1930's.

Especially because of Doc Brinkley's supposed belief in Toggenburg goat-gland implants being what those afflicted with Lost Manhood--so long as they had $750 cash, payable in advance--needed to once again become Manly Men. That, and the likes of radio stations KFKB (when he had his clinic in Milford, Kansas) and XER (later becoming XERA) in Ciudad Acuna, Mexico (opposite Del Rio, Texas, where Doc moved his surgery after Kansas officials revoked his medical licence for Quackery and Addiction to Liquor) to promote his treatments.

Come to think of it: How do we know Rush Limbaugh isn't really a "closet john" (as in having occasional trysts with prostitutes, yet trying all the more to avoid attracting unwelcome suspicions)?

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ZAHAL--THE HEBREW ACRONYM FOR THE ISRAELI DEFENCE FORCES--HAVE ISSUED AN EDICT banning all its active-duty and reserve members from having a presence on the online social-networking site Facebook, citing potential risks for revealing sensitive information as may benefit the enemy; rumour hath it that Lebanese- and Palestinian-based militants have monitored social-network pages of Zahal members for fresh terrorist-attack targets as seem to be an almost-constant occurence across Israel.

But then again, Your Correspondent understands where white-supremacist and racist elements have their own social-networking presence online, bound by a dangerously warped and violent agenda as includes what amounts to obligatory hagiographic idolisation of Nazi Germany and apartheid South Africa alongside appeals to "defending the purity and integrity of our One Master Race," among other "causes."

IMHO, the only race as matters is the human race. "It's a small world, after all...."

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AND SPEAKING OF SOCIAL NETWORKING ONLINE, Your Correspondent is still looking into the launch of a site in this vein as would be of interest to:

• residents of the Wisconsin Dells/Lake Delton district, especially such with a direct involvement in the tourism industry there;
• current and past employees of touristic-related businesses in the Waterpark Capital; and
• longtime devotees of the Dells region long before it became the Waterpark Capital.

Those interested can enquire here by e-mail. I hope to get things ready in time for the traditional Memorial Day Long Weekend start of season.

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ANOTHER REASON WHY WALLY WORLD IS UNDESERVING OF YOUR PATRONAGE: Flagler Productions, a Kansas City-based video production company long under contract to Wally World to produce corporate videos--or so they thought--has released an archive of Wally World's Most Embarrassing Moments spanning nearly 30 years.

Embarrassing Moments as include scenes of high-level executives of a company officially built on the defence of working-class family values wearing drag and otherwise acting in a campy manner that would make the Carry On series look like The 700 Club by comparison.

Not to mention one Embarrassing Moment showing employees joking to themselves and otherwise performing Tasteless Routines about exploding plastic gas cans, uncovered in research for a lawsuit involving the sale of defective gas cans as led to severe burns on a 12-year-old boy.

As CNBC covered the release:

No wonder you can't trust Wally World for your shopping needs without feeling twinges of guilt or angst.