I don’t normally watch 60 Minutes these days (kind of a Dan Rather solidarity thing), but there it was on my teevee right after some really good basketball games, so I left it on. I wonder how long it’ll be before I’m no longer stunned by the sight of a President who is dignified and articulate (and, in Joe Biden’s defense, he looks pretty clean, too)? Right away, I knew his seeming to laugh about the economic situation wouldn’t play well in Peoria, though (and, honestly, had it been Bush, we’d have seen posts of scorn, hatred, and derision at all of our favorite lefty outlets). That’s kind of how I try to gauge my reaction to the things Obama does. Not WWJD, but WIDDI – What If Dubya Did It.
I did enjoy the way he basically told Dick Cheney to go fuck himself, without actually coming out and telling him to go fuck himself (though I really wanted him to say “Cheney ought to STFU and be glad he isn’t in prison”). Speaking of Cheney, the story about the paranoid schizophrenic guy was good, too.
How creepy are those pictures of the plane crashing into a cemetery in Montana? Kind of surreal. Reminds me of that old brain teaser: if a plane crashes into a cemetery in Montana, where do they bury the survivors? Or, better yet, how will the NY Daily News spell “cemetery?”
Sylvia Plath’s son, Nicholas Hughes, committed suicide last Monday. Like mother, like son, I guess. Except, instead of gas, he hung himself.
Pretty good weekend for me, sports-wise, as my old high school beat the Batavia Blue Devils on Saturday to earn a trip to the NY State Basketball finals. Syracuse moved on the the Sweet Sixteen by defeating the Arizona State Sun Devils on Sunday while my high school team was in the process of bringing home its second State Basketball championship in a row, beating the Peekskill Red Devils in OT. I cast ye out, Satan. Toss in an SU lacrosse win for good measure, and it makes Monday a little easier to take (though I have to admit to being somewhat exhausted, having been unable to sleep for various reasons), and a nice week waiting for Friday night’s game against Oklahoma.
The gallows humor is part of the deal for reparations due to slavery and every injustice ever committed on a black man. I don’t think in terms of what would Bush say, I think in terms of patriarchal whitey and redneck old man ain’t in charge no more. Or at least a step in that direction.
Cheez, I tried to give Stephanie Miller still another chance and it’s Frangela and it only took one minute to drive me away. Back to Morning Edition for a 2nd listen. At least it’s a Cokie-free Monday
I spent a lot of time in the ‘office’ this weekend and almost caught up on Daily Reports and Olbermanns and Maddows and Mahers. Thursday night with Springsteen on The Daily Show and Colbert’s hip hop ‘faceoff’ with Michael Steele were great.
I love the gallows humour. I try to keep it to myself because few understand in hypersensitive mawkish America. When I saw O’Bama laughing I thought of it as more of an internal personal reflection, kind of a “nobody knows the trouble I’m seein'” moment rather dan a gwb chucklehead sort of “Duh, huh-huh, huh huh, you got me I don’t have a clue’ tic.
I don’t think in those terms either. But when Obama does something I don’t like, I try to say to myself, “gee, if Dubya did that, what would I think?”
Now, Obama’s chuckling didn’t bother me last night, because he was (IMHO) laughing at the fact that no matter what he does, it’ll be wrong (a bit like being married, or trying to think of something to write every morning), not that he thought it was funny that the economy is in the crapper (the “gallows humor” quip was his attempt at cover when Steve Kroft – who may just be Stevie Potatohead – said, “golly, you’re laughing!”). I can, however, see the republican hypocrites making a big fake show of outrage over it.
And had dubya laughed in the same way, it would have pissed me off (mostly because, IMHO, he would have been laughing at the economy being in the crapper, and could never have even considered the possibility that he could do anything wrong).
Piker.
But on that subject of laughing, there is a different repuglicon laugh that is practiced by the like of Armey and DeLay and their ilk when they are on talking head shows with opposing viewpoints.
You know the one when the other side has something to say that makes sense and is longer than a 2-5 word sound bite non-sentence so the try to chuckle as loudly as they can with a dismissive and derisive tone of ridicule. Nobody rarely ever calls them on that laughter asking if that is all they’ve got. It usually sounds like they are drunk anyway.
I’m tired of the constant picking at Obama. The guy can’t freaking breath without people bitching about him. What has it been, 55 days? I’ve seen more crap thrown at him than 8 years of Bush. I don’t necessarily like everything the guy does and, frankly, some of what he’s doing is way too early to evaluate. But man, they have this guy under a freaking microscope.
Archie Green
What a life!
🙁 :gate:
oops!
:omg: :rofl2:
Drug Tests for Unemployment Checks? Just Cheap Political Theater
By all means, let’s shit on everyone who is forced to go on unemployment in order to weed out the microscopic number of people who might actually be buying drugs with the money. I’d like to see some of these asshole legislators actually try to live on the dole for a month and see if they have any dignity left by Day 30.
As a Florida resident, I can vouch for Mike Bennett’s douchery. Sadly, we have a lot of those Repiglican asstards around here still.
I think Vernon is our own Archie Green, a chronicler of stuff normally unseen.
From memory, the rabbit’s name was Caer Baenog.
(stuff you learn when you are a juvenile somehow embeds in your skull)
WHT, that may be the nicest thing anyone has ever said about me but Archie was a rare bird.
I was blessed to have crossed his path a number of times.
“Yaaaarrhh! He’ll bite yer bum!”
Re 8:
So, they’ll all just become alcoholics. That’s legal. Drug testing is such a waste of money.
Here’s a great new talent who escaped my attention. Maybe Vernon knows who she is. Enjoy!
http://www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/live/index/php/957569.phtml?play=1
(sorry about the 30 second commercial)
Yeah! Let’s change our name! No one will ever know! :jerk:
Archie Green :gate:
what a good old fart, a wonderful guy.
also a Journeyman Shipwright like me. RIP Archie
I’ve kind of gotten obsessed with his playing.