I used to be disgusted
Now I try to be amused- Elvis Costello, "Red Shoes"
Ah, what a weird, wonderful, and glorious week this has been, eh? I almost hate to see it come to an end. First off, we had Eva Mendes appearing naked in a Calvin Klein ad...and I'm still trying to figure out how that could possibly be a bad thing. Shortly thereafter, John McCain went to Sturgis, SD, and offered up his wife as a contestant in a raunchy biker's beauty pageant...and part of me just died when I couldn't cleanse my mind of that mental image. Oh, and lest I forget...Paris Hilton is apparently running for President (be still, my foolish heart). If I were a professional comedian, I'd have to imagine that I'd be pretty frustrated right about now, because the jokes just seem to be writing themselves. Who's going to pay a comedian when there's a comedy gold mine on virtually every television news channel?
And don't think the fun is going to stop once the weekend hits. No, with Barack Obama on vacation in Hawaii, no doubt the stalkerazzi will be in high gear, hoping against hope that they'll get that topless photo of Michelle Obama that will put their kids through college. Good luck on that one, Skippy.... (And I can almost hear John McCain, the Senator who hasn't been to work in something like four months, yelling at a campaign rally, "Tell 'em to get back to work!!") Ah, irony; and all this time I'd feared you'd gone down for the third time and weren't about to come back up for air....
So what did I learn this week? Well, I learned that Democrats can be every bit as ignorant, racist, and "out there" as Republicans (and sometimes, if they're REALLY good, they can be WAY more entertaining). I mean, what the Hell, right? If your campaign is going to go down in flames (and Nikki Tinker's most certainly and deservingly did), you might as well do it up big, no? Wow, you'd think an African-American woman in Memphis would know from racism. Then again, when you do it, it's racism; when I do it, it's self-preservation, right??
And can ANYONE tell me just what in the Hell the evil government scientists on Plum Island are up to these days??
Oh...and I would be remiss were I not to offer my heartfelt congratulations to the Chinese, who've won the first gold medal in the Beijing Olympics...this one in tag-team oppression
One last thing...just a reminder that my Minnesota Twins are but a half-game out of first place in the American League Central behind the Chicago White Sox. (Yeah, they'll make the playoffs, where they'll once again get destroyed by the New York Yankees in the first round. Bank on it.) Actually, they'd be in first place if I hadn't watch them blow a 6-0 lead by giving up 10 runs in the bottom of the seventh inning during a game in Seattle earlier this week. So much for being able to handle prosperity....
Yea, verily, thou shalt go forth and multiply...and enjoy your weekend. Hopefully, it's been satirized for your protection.
