Tag Archives: Politics

So let me get this straight… The big to-do in politics right now is that something written in Microsoft Word looks like something written on a 30 year old typewriter?
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Current headline on CNN: “Bush urges Kerry to condemn attack ads”

Dude… Did you somehow miss that he allready had?
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Andy Ihnatko has posted a drinking game suggestion which has the potential to cause serious liver damage. Here’s the rules, just in case you don’t want to follow the link:

1. Every time there’s a moment of silence for Ronald Reagan, you take a drink.
2. For every twenty seconds that the moment of silence is awkwardly extended to ensure that every governor or senator with a shot at the 2008 nomination receives a somber close-up on national television, you take another drink.
3. Every time a convention speaker claims that s/he can Feel Ronald Reagan’s Presence Among Us Today, you take a drink. Take a bonus drink if the speaker pretends to blink back tears; take a third if the speaker is also male.
4. Every time the crowd is challenged to do something “for the Gipper” ? re-elect George W. Bush; support statewide referenda banning same-sex marriage; stop tossing chicken bones into Oklahoma’s seating area (Texas delegates only) ? you take a drink.
5. Every time George W. Bush (or one of his designated proxies) attempts to create the impression that he’s Ronald Reagan’s son and not George Sr.’s, you take a drink.
6. Every time there’s a video montage that ends with Ronald Reagan in cowboy attire, strolling and/or riding a horse in slow motion across a sweeping prairie in which the sky has been electronically replaced with a seductively rippling American flag, you chug.

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I’ve been disappointed with a lot of the major news neworks lately. I could go off an a rant about corporate control of news networks, the myth of the liberal media and all that jazz, but I think it’d be more useful to just post links to some alternate news sources.
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There’s a massive archive of old educational movies over at R.I.P. Films. Some of them, like “A Date With Your Family” will be familiar to fans of MST3K, and of course there are the cold war and atomic age classics “Atomic Alert!” and “Duck and Cover.” There are also some much more disturbing films, especially among the WWII era U.S. propaganda films.
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This is fun. According to an article in The Register, a group of Irish Americans from county Monaghan ditched their traditional banners for the New York St. Patrick’s Day parade because “said standard carries an outline map of Monaghan, which bears an uncanny resemblance to an outline map of Iraq.”
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I think I may be tired today. I had a great weekend, but it’s kind of wearing on me now. I wound up taking a two hour nap after work without intending to. I just lay down for a few minutes with a book and it was instant sleep time.

And of course I keep rewriting all of this. Heck, I’ve even restarted this whole blog entry from scratch a couple of times. Anyway, there’s a fuzzy-brained political rant coming up, so if you want to skip this entry, go right ahead.
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