Lemon juice? On ribs? this amounts to blasphemy far greater than Michelle Obama’s gherkins on tuna salad. Where is the Freeper cohort to decry the unorthodox and elitist treatment of our sacred barbecue?

That’s about how I see it. It’s going to be a huge pain in the ass to disabuse the public of these notions, though, since more than a generation’s worth have been raised learning this bullshit. Not insurmountable, but it’s going to take some time and skill.

That’s why the abuse and scorn that Reagan and his acolytes heaped on the government, years after they became “the government,” worked so well.

But now that those years have become decades, fulminations against “government” have lost a lot of their strength (or toxicity). These assholes have been running things for a long time, and they’ve managed to fuck things up in spectacular manner. They’re frantically clinging to the fragments of the Reagan Revolution, which includes damning as elitist anyone with any ideas about how government can actually help its citizens.

You really want to mess with this?

Unlike these Yank “conservative” bastards, I like ‘em clever. With really. Great. Hair.

You couldn’t get within hearing distance of the man before the sheer unmitigated reek of his intellectual deficit (you know, little shit, like earnestly believing he’d been a REAL Air Force bomber-pilot, or surreal non sequiturs like “I, too, am a Contra”) smacked you full in the face, & the media willingly repackaged it as “Old-Fashioned” or “Charming” … & a few trillion simoleons, a crypto-fascist operative Secret Team, & hundreds of thousands of proxy-war victims later, that repackaging still held up.

If his oposite number at the end of his reign of error had been someone less noble (& less mentally nimble) than Gorbachev, the 90s probably would’ve wound up being Teh Shortest Decade EVAR!

Randian==retardo

Is the vapidity of news/reporting the byproduct of television as a primary source of information, with the emphasis on brevity (rather than concision), facts be damned? When you hear a catchphrase like “more americans get their news from [some network or other]” maybe we should shed a tear for what once was and could have been a fair, equitable, and informed society.

Reducing complex issues or even clarifying/debunking a fiction like “Al Gore invented the internet” takes more than 30 seconds, just like a nutritious meal isn’t likely to be found on the dollar menu. Maybe the internetz, since they don’t have the same limitations, can help restore some of the promise. Can you see today’s voter following the equivalent of the Lincoln/Douglas debates?

Why is everyone laughing at me?

Oh, and my book is banned in Canada. Says so on the cover. Just saw a pile of them up here in the Great White Whatnot.

Btw, I sent you my resume last night, and haven’t heard back. Did you get it?

Oh well, back to destroying all of reality for the greater glory of the Dalek Race.

Pastor Swank called Obama – I swear I am not making this up – a deceiver Boy. Yes, he really did.

On that note, it’s midnight here and still 84 humid degrees. It was around 98 today. Got the a/c cranked and just took a freezing cold shower. I’m going to go lie in bed and read with a glass of ice water and the fan about two inches away.