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Billary is Cronus? So is that Chelsea?

Like Kronos, Wright started as a ballsack in the sea.

He may be the last person to take this Joe Campbell archetypal Jungian stuff seriously. Even worked a Samson reference in there: "It is inconceivable that the Democratic superdelegates will go to Denver only to bring down the temple on their own heads." Positively Miltonic. Meyerson is among the great minds of the seventeenth century.

...when they said food prices were spiking, I never thought it would lead to this! Oh well, can you pass the hot sauce please?

So Greek mythology is somehow analogous to, and derivative of, human experience ?

Damn, never occurred to me.

...I tried to read the attached article, but it's rule of mine not read anything that mentions "Oedipal theory"(or any reference to a Greek tragedy) in the first sentence.

Call up Iron Man to clean this mess up.

@AngryBlakGuy: You have a problem with painfully extended metaphors that contribute nothing (except for word count) to the author's original point? No tenure for you!

So...are we to forsake the thrown under the bus metaphor, for this far more arcane specter of Kronus thingy?

Okay, so color me confused. BHO has dispatched one Cronus, but now he has to take on the two-headed Cronus that is Bill and Hill? I'd have said they were more like a hydra, but that would kill the metaphor.

I trust that this is available as a monograph called something like, 'Honey, I Ate The Children: Greek Myth and the Rise of the Black Adonis' - yes?

Yes Sara, you read Yeats, you went to Harvard. (Just kidding; I love that poem.)

@superfectablog: Or how about "Mama Said There'd Be Days Like This: Filiophagy and the Hero's Transcendence of Paternal Will."

I once photoshopped a taco bell chalupa into that painting. I can't find it now.

@econdave: Widening gyres. Even with that bowtie, Yeats was a horny old smiling public man (he played the taws on the bottom of a king of kings)

See, now I would have said Hillary and Bill were more like Kang and KODOS. But that's probably just because the left-coast, Anatidae-visaged university I attended has elevated the Simpsons to the level of Greek mythology in its curriculum.

Cronus was the ruling Titan who came to power by castrating his Father Uranus (Hillary's father beat his wife). His wife was Rhea. There offspring were the first of the Olympians (Bitter Elitists). To ensure his safety Cronus ate each of the children as they were born (Yes Hillary does this). This worked until Rhea, unhappy at the loss of her children, tricked Cronus into swallowing a rock, instead of Zeus (sexy Barry). When he grew up Zeus would revolt against Cronus and the other Titans, defeat them, and banish them to Tartarus in the underworld (Indiana).

Cronus managed to escape to New York, where she ruled as Senator. The period of her rule was said to be a golden age on earth, honored by the Saturnalia feast of children.

@shortsshortsshorts: So who is the wife of Cronus in this metaphor?

Don't underestimate the Greek Cannibal demographic!

@SayItWithWookies: Ooh, yes, that's much better! Who knew all us multiple-humanities-degreed people had nothing better to do?

@IrasGlasses: It would have to be Bill, he's been more of a bitch lately.

Let me get this straight: Barry "Janus" Obama [wonkette.com] is supposed to be scared of some cannibal Greek with only ONE face? I don't think so. Eat me, indeed!

@superfectablog: The boss is away today. Not that that explains all the other days I spend lots of time here.

No matter where you dispatch Rev. Wright, he will just get more of an echo...

Cronus is often shown with a sickle, the one he used to castrate Uranus, which is where HRC keeps her balls hidden, no doubt, so it all makes sense.