Monday, September 06, 2004
Bits Not Fitting Elsewhere
I am apparently not the only one who's pretty much given up on John Kerry. Aaron McGruder has too. His Boondocks strips using stem cells as a takeoff point for various campaign riffs haven't been consistenly good, but today's gets at the ineptitude I lamented in this morning's post.
Also in the news today, Bill Clinton has come through his bypass surgery successfully. I confess--the thought crossed my mind in the last few days that if he were to die from this, the differences in coverage between his demise and Reagan's would expose the right-wing bias of the major media in clear and uncomfortable (for them) terms. However, all signs point to Bill's being with us for a good long time yet, although he'll be out of action for a couple of months, taking him off the campaign trail for Democrats this fall.
(Clinton's reportedly been doing the South Beach Diet. I read somewhere late last week that heart trouble like his--not to mention other attractive conditions such as bad breath and constipation--can be a consequence of low-carb, high-fat diets. Although I'd wager that in Bill's case, it's not so much the diet that put him in Columbia Presbyterian as it was the Big Macs that necessitated the diet in the first place.)
Salon's War Room 2004 reports that the Bush Twins and their entourage spent Wednesday night running up a $4500 tab at a Manhattan club, for which they left a $48 tip. The apples, apparently, don't fall far from the tree. If Bush were as pro-family as his supporters claim he is, these vile little tarts would be in a convent now.
If those Chili's ads that ran during the Olympics, in which gold-medal-winning athletes found the source of their inspiration in barbecue sauce, seemed as monumentally stupid to you as they did to me, we aren't alone. Matt Taibbi explains that because advertisers have run out of physical locations on which to plaster ads, they are attempting to colonize abstract concepts such as "inspiration."
My Stuff, Other Places: New at The Hits Just Keep On Comin': Rockin' the Kitchen. At Best of the Blogs: Here We Go.
I am apparently not the only one who's pretty much given up on John Kerry. Aaron McGruder has too. His Boondocks strips using stem cells as a takeoff point for various campaign riffs haven't been consistenly good, but today's gets at the ineptitude I lamented in this morning's post.
Also in the news today, Bill Clinton has come through his bypass surgery successfully. I confess--the thought crossed my mind in the last few days that if he were to die from this, the differences in coverage between his demise and Reagan's would expose the right-wing bias of the major media in clear and uncomfortable (for them) terms. However, all signs point to Bill's being with us for a good long time yet, although he'll be out of action for a couple of months, taking him off the campaign trail for Democrats this fall.
(Clinton's reportedly been doing the South Beach Diet. I read somewhere late last week that heart trouble like his--not to mention other attractive conditions such as bad breath and constipation--can be a consequence of low-carb, high-fat diets. Although I'd wager that in Bill's case, it's not so much the diet that put him in Columbia Presbyterian as it was the Big Macs that necessitated the diet in the first place.)
Salon's War Room 2004 reports that the Bush Twins and their entourage spent Wednesday night running up a $4500 tab at a Manhattan club, for which they left a $48 tip. The apples, apparently, don't fall far from the tree. If Bush were as pro-family as his supporters claim he is, these vile little tarts would be in a convent now.
If those Chili's ads that ran during the Olympics, in which gold-medal-winning athletes found the source of their inspiration in barbecue sauce, seemed as monumentally stupid to you as they did to me, we aren't alone. Matt Taibbi explains that because advertisers have run out of physical locations on which to plaster ads, they are attempting to colonize abstract concepts such as "inspiration."
My Stuff, Other Places: New at The Hits Just Keep On Comin': Rockin' the Kitchen. At Best of the Blogs: Here We Go.
