“Shake harder, boy!” – Shelbyville Impound Lot Owner Two days out from the 2010 election the widespread expectation is that the Reds will take control of the House and the Blues will hold the Senate. Of course, given the uncertainty surrounding the available polling data and the sheer number of close races, the Blues holding [...]
Archive for October 2010
Red versus Blue
A Modern Curse
“Well how ’bout you and my father go and hang out at the gun range some afternoon and you can spend the whole day just agreeing with each other.” – Bruce On his blog yesterday, James Fallows distilled something that has long needed clarification. Rather than try to describe it, I’m just going quote pretty [...]
Heated Gibberish
“Dad, I don’t want to bury my head in the sand.” – Stan Marsh “It’s the best way, Stanley.” – Randy Marsh As we approach the midterm elections, it seems like a good idea to take a look at what is perhaps the biggest failure of the first two years of undivided Blue rule in [...]
Bad Air, Good Book
“But that was just one little, insignificant mosquito. That can’t change the future, right?” – Homer Simpson If there is one immediate takeaway from Sonia Shah’s enjoyable but strangely shallow book about malaria, it is that malaria means different things to different people. To modern medicine, it is a scourge. To modern media, it is [...]
Sorry Queermos, There’s An Election Afoot
“But I read in Esqwired magazine that some robots are hard wired to be robosexual.” – Gay Robot “Don’t believe those lies, son! The only lies worth believing are the ones in the Bible.” – Reverend Lionel Preacherbot On Friday, Alex Pareene at Salon wondered why the Obama Administration, ostensibly committed to repealing the military’s [...]
Foreground Checks
“According to our computer your credit history is not good. It says here that you’ve been pre-declined for every major credit card. It also says that you once grabbed a dog by the hind legs and pushed him around like a vacuum cleaner.” – First Bank of Springfield Employee “That was in the third grade!” [...]
An Expensive Lesson
“Hasn’t this experience taught you you can’t believe everything you hear?” – Marge Simpson “Marge, my friend, I haven’t learned a thing.” – Homer Simpson At TomDispatch, Andrew Bacevich has a nice piece bemoaning the expensive yet hopeless state of the American way of war. As usual, Bacevich has a perceptive, no bullshit take on [...]
Buffoons at Play
“Well you’ve come a long way from the girl I knew nothing about in high school.” – Evelyn “We ran with different crowds. You had your debutant balls and skinny dipping, and I had my home shoe repair course.” – Marge Simpson Last Sunday, Thomas Friedman, the Moustache of Understanding himself, dropped a column turd [...]
Authoritarian Naivete
“Attention, this is an emergency broadcast. All is well in the school. My authority as principal is total.” – Principal Skinner When he was in junior high, a friend of mine said the word “fuck” within earshot of one of the principals. Naturally, this meant a trip down to the office. While my friend was [...]
