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I'm not going to brag too much, but the one good thing about my job besides the paycheck is now I look surprisingly good without a shirt on. Like, I'm gonna look great for pool parties.
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Hey everyone! 2009 is a good year for mortality! I think in the future, there's going to be a class on the early 21st century, and when someone is asked when a person died, they will just guess 2009 and probably be right.
Or at least they might if American history classes could ever even get to the Vietnam War, which they never will. The entirety of our national historic consciousness will permanently be cemented in the days leading up to WW1, with a day focused on WW2 to remind everybody who Hitler was and that we won by dropping two massive bombs on Japan and that this was not a war crime.
Ladies and gentlemen, I did not really begin this entry with an agenda, so maybe it's gets a little scattered.
I'm informed Ted Kennedy is dead. He was a kind of infamous dude, but since I'm over here on the left, he was my infamous dude. The Right (cap. 'r') has a cause to celebrate and the Left has cause to mourn. Of course! Everyone on both sides of the media went to tears of Robert fucking Novak, and he was primarily just the goon who brought us our diseased national rhetoric, full of Glenn Becks and Rush 'head of the GOP' Limbaugh. Still, Novak wasn't the worst by a long stretch, and when nobody was looking I got the impression that he intended to be honest. I'll accept that, and call it a day.
Ted Kennedy is big news, and now he won't be anymore.
In the past, you wanted him on your side. He was credible, he had pedigree, and he was good at his job. These days, the Democrats spend most of their time wringing their hands, have no decent media control, and even though they've got the large majority, can't push a health care bill through Congress even when we were sold - as a nation - on a war nobody needed on grounds that weren't true for an amount that will continue to haunt us. It's not about going into national debt so much as it is making that money do something for us after we invested it. The debt incurred in Iraq is not doing anything for us and I think it's fairly dubious how much it's done for Iraq.
Actually, how is Iraq doing these days? I don't hear anything on the news. I assume stuff continues to explode, but our numbers are gone from the television. Hell, Obama didn't get us out of there yet, but he's managed to get it off TV, and in America that's even better. As a nation, after all, we're against anything we're paying attention to but like a computer virus that we don't see, anything in the background doesn't matter. If it doesn't intrude on The Price is Right reruns or, fuck, what do the kids watch today, So You Think You Can Dance, we don't give a goddamn.
And that means that after this wailing and gnashing of teeth, we won't care about you either, Ted Kennedy. But I'll miss you. Sure, why not? A little shrine to Ted Kennedy right on top of my CRT television. I'll offer it mini bottles of booze and sticks of incense.
Or at least they might if American history classes could ever even get to the Vietnam War, which they never will. The entirety of our national historic consciousness will permanently be cemented in the days leading up to WW1, with a day focused on WW2 to remind everybody who Hitler was and that we won by dropping two massive bombs on Japan and that this was not a war crime.
Ladies and gentlemen, I did not really begin this entry with an agenda, so maybe it's gets a little scattered.
I'm informed Ted Kennedy is dead. He was a kind of infamous dude, but since I'm over here on the left, he was my infamous dude. The Right (cap. 'r') has a cause to celebrate and the Left has cause to mourn. Of course! Everyone on both sides of the media went to tears of Robert fucking Novak, and he was primarily just the goon who brought us our diseased national rhetoric, full of Glenn Becks and Rush 'head of the GOP' Limbaugh. Still, Novak wasn't the worst by a long stretch, and when nobody was looking I got the impression that he intended to be honest. I'll accept that, and call it a day.
Ted Kennedy is big news, and now he won't be anymore.
In the past, you wanted him on your side. He was credible, he had pedigree, and he was good at his job. These days, the Democrats spend most of their time wringing their hands, have no decent media control, and even though they've got the large majority, can't push a health care bill through Congress even when we were sold - as a nation - on a war nobody needed on grounds that weren't true for an amount that will continue to haunt us. It's not about going into national debt so much as it is making that money do something for us after we invested it. The debt incurred in Iraq is not doing anything for us and I think it's fairly dubious how much it's done for Iraq.
Actually, how is Iraq doing these days? I don't hear anything on the news. I assume stuff continues to explode, but our numbers are gone from the television. Hell, Obama didn't get us out of there yet, but he's managed to get it off TV, and in America that's even better. As a nation, after all, we're against anything we're paying attention to but like a computer virus that we don't see, anything in the background doesn't matter. If it doesn't intrude on The Price is Right reruns or, fuck, what do the kids watch today, So You Think You Can Dance, we don't give a goddamn.
And that means that after this wailing and gnashing of teeth, we won't care about you either, Ted Kennedy. But I'll miss you. Sure, why not? A little shrine to Ted Kennedy right on top of my CRT television. I'll offer it mini bottles of booze and sticks of incense.
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