Drive-by politics
Why is it that men with the most opinions about women's bodies rarely look like George Clooney? Usually they're gargoyles like Donald Trump, Howard Stern and Rush Limbaugh. Can they see well enough to cross the road? Or are they perpetually in high school, angry at the girls who laughed at them and enraged at the guys who didn't get laughed at, like Bill Clinton?
I can't decide if Gary Johnson is the Dan Quayle or the Sarah Palin of 2016, but I'm sure the Libertarian Party wish they could reverse the ticket and put Bill Weld at the top. And that their platform didn't include the decriminalization of marijuana.
Why, exactly, do vice-presidential candidates debate? Who cares what they think, or how they explain it? The job consists of going to funerals, casting a tie-breaking vote every seven years or so, and waiting around. And it's not as if we can pick the one we like better, they just come with the other one.
It must have been with some relief that Chris Christie rushed from one trainwreck to another this morning. Apparently he has been tasked with preparing Donzo the Clown for his next "debate." Bring a cattle-prod, Chris. Your boy has the attention span of a concussed bee and the IQ of a drawerful of socks. On the other hand, he has probably earned the right to wear that Purple Heart -- HRC cleaned his clock, oiled it, set it to Naval Observatory time and stuck it right up on his mantelpiece. So his new strategy is to insult all non-Christians and yell about Monica Lewinsky. That should work.
"Detached" was the word used to describe Ronald Reagan, especially in his second term, when Mommy and her astrologer were more or less running the Executive Branch. How does that differ from "having trouble staying focused"?
Trump claims/doesn't claim that global climate change is a "hoax" perpetrated by (who else?) the Chinese. But nobody in Taiwan or southeast China thinks it's a hoax, as they stagger out from under the third typhoon in a month. How many Katrinas and Sandys will it take to convince the pinheads? I guess we'll find out.
When you pass a law, however idiotic, you have to provide for enforcement. So I expect North Carolina to create a new force of State Toilet Police. Stationed before every public restroom in their spiffy uniforms (I like lime green), they will check every person's birth certificate against her/his anatomy to make sure they pee where God intended. It's a creepy job, but clearly someone has to do it.
It's just a microphone, Donzo. What you want is Political Auto-Tune, where you spew idiocy and bullshit and reasoned speech comes out. Hasn't been invented yet.
I can't decide if Gary Johnson is the Dan Quayle or the Sarah Palin of 2016, but I'm sure the Libertarian Party wish they could reverse the ticket and put Bill Weld at the top. And that their platform didn't include the decriminalization of marijuana.
Why, exactly, do vice-presidential candidates debate? Who cares what they think, or how they explain it? The job consists of going to funerals, casting a tie-breaking vote every seven years or so, and waiting around. And it's not as if we can pick the one we like better, they just come with the other one.
It must have been with some relief that Chris Christie rushed from one trainwreck to another this morning. Apparently he has been tasked with preparing Donzo the Clown for his next "debate." Bring a cattle-prod, Chris. Your boy has the attention span of a concussed bee and the IQ of a drawerful of socks. On the other hand, he has probably earned the right to wear that Purple Heart -- HRC cleaned his clock, oiled it, set it to Naval Observatory time and stuck it right up on his mantelpiece. So his new strategy is to insult all non-Christians and yell about Monica Lewinsky. That should work.
"Detached" was the word used to describe Ronald Reagan, especially in his second term, when Mommy and her astrologer were more or less running the Executive Branch. How does that differ from "having trouble staying focused"?
Trump claims/doesn't claim that global climate change is a "hoax" perpetrated by (who else?) the Chinese. But nobody in Taiwan or southeast China thinks it's a hoax, as they stagger out from under the third typhoon in a month. How many Katrinas and Sandys will it take to convince the pinheads? I guess we'll find out.
When you pass a law, however idiotic, you have to provide for enforcement. So I expect North Carolina to create a new force of State Toilet Police. Stationed before every public restroom in their spiffy uniforms (I like lime green), they will check every person's birth certificate against her/his anatomy to make sure they pee where God intended. It's a creepy job, but clearly someone has to do it.
It's just a microphone, Donzo. What you want is Political Auto-Tune, where you spew idiocy and bullshit and reasoned speech comes out. Hasn't been invented yet.
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posted by Buttermilk Sky at 1:40 PM
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Another term used for Reagan was "disengaged." Calvin Trillin took this as a springboard for a riff about Reagan working out with the disengagedbells and having lunch sent up on the disengagedwaiter.
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