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Law & Letters is getting spammed by supporters of Prop 8, so apparently the bigots are out in full force. Hopefully, it’s a sign of desperation, but to help spread the word, I’ll donate my little space in the blog-o-sphere against this awful, awful proposition. I have no tolerance for this kind of nonsense. It really, really pisses me off.
Anyway, more information can be found here.
For those of you, like myself, who muscled through the vice-presidential debate last Thursday thinking you understood the purposes of punditry and political discourse only to find the post-debate analysis to contain headlines like “For Palin, A Tie is a Win” and “Palin avoids questions, wins debate“, I am just as frustrated. Frankly, she did not exceed my expectations, although I, unlike everyone else, did not expect her to consume a live puppy during Thursday’s festivities. Nor did a expect a repeat of horrific Katie Couric interview, which, of course, was all Katie Couric’s fault. How dare she ask direct and relevant questions?
During the debate, Sarah Palin did exactly what I thought she’d do - she avoided answering direct questions, proved that the vice-presidency is way out of her league, and demonstrated an amazing strength and personality - a strength and personally that allows her to be completely ignorant of important issues without causing her the slightest bit of concern. After all, a wink and a smile solves everything - kind of like Jedi Mind Trick from Star Wars, without all of that “who’s your daddy” baggage. Well… almost.
And for those of you, like myself, who had an impossible time making sense of Palin’s responses (I wouldn’t go so far as to call them answers), I pass along to you the Sarah Palin Debate Flow Chart. If only we would have had it Thursday…
On a final Friday note - is it me, or does Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff bear a disturbingly strong resemblance to The Satanic Bible author, the late Anton Levay?
Or is that insulting…. to Anton Levay?
Have a good weekend everyone!
So do you remember Republican Senator Ted “Series of Tubes” Stevens of Alaska, who, in addition to advocating for the infamous Bridge to Nowhere, was famous for the following rant against network neutrality:
I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o’clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why?
Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially…
They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It’s not a truck.
It’s a series of tubes.
And if you don’t understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and its going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.
Yeah, so while he is aware that the internet is “not a truck”, he isn’t aware of what constitutes a felony. He also had a “series of tubes” on the brain, as that’s exactly one of the “undisclosed” gift he received from the VECO Corporation. A little Keith Olbermann for your watching pleasure:
