That, in turn, causes us to wonder if Republicans, when they ask their children if they smoke pot, want their kids to tell the truth in response to that question or if they are looking to get verification that conservative kids have learned the lesson of sounding very sincere when they lie or make campaign promises. What advice would Ayn Rand give to children who are being asked: "Do you smoke pot?" Is there a smoke-lie rule that applies? I.e. if you can get into trouble over pot, just tell a convincing lie.
Since the Republicans seem determined to blame President
Obama for the deficits caused by the wars George W. Bush started but kept off
the balance sheet, why didn't President Obama proclaim that the "off the books"
expenses had become a bipartisan American tradition and keep them off the
books? When President Obama served his
partial term as Senator didn't he learn the old political legend that the
Republicans spend like there's no tomorrow when they are in power and then talk
up balanced budgets nonstop when they are not in power?
Since Bishop Romney's strategy of stressing his business record, which he won't discuss, and giving assurances that his tax forms, which he won't release, provide compelling reasons for electing him President have produced poll results which indicate a virtual tie; the World's Laziest Journalist is beginning to think that political punditry has become superfluous and that it is time to start writing columns that are less partisan by tackling topics such as "Have the Oscar Ceremonies changed much since we took photos of Francis Ford Coppola with Mario Puzo?"
Columnists, who consider their mission is to proivde snide
comments about all politicians, might be more inclined to ask their audience if
watching the Republicans try to ignore a major hurricane disaster reminded them
of King Lear. Many people might not get
the joke and ignore the source but when Ayn Rand advised her disciples not to
vote for St. Ronald Reagan for President, didn't she get ignored too?
The world's laziest journalist has always been fascinated by picaresque adventures and the people who chronicle their travel experiences but it wasn't until after posting last week's column that we learned that Henry Miller had written a book about his experiences on the road. We were disappointed to learn that the Berkeley Public Library didn't have a copy to borrow, but Moe's Bookstore on Telegraph Avenue had a used volume of a collection of Miller's work for sale. It included the text of "The Air Conditioned Nightmare."
After living in Paris for
almost a decade, Miller had returned to the USA
because Europe was on the brink of a
cataclysmic war and he wanted to write a book about the return of the prodigal
son experiences he would gather while traveling around his native land.
Pseudo Intellectuals (moi ?) will be delighted to find a cornucopia of very intriguing pre Pearl Harbor pop culture trivia in the book. Miller assumed that his audience would know who the writers Hermes Trismegistus and Kenneth Patchen and British actress Olga Nethersole were but we had to look them up. The names of these once famous personalities have become rather obscure examples of Google-bait.
For a columnist who has covered various episodes from the Occupy protests in Oakland, Berkeley, and San Francisco, Miller's laundry list of social complaints sounded very much as if they "were ripped from today's headlines."
If economic inequity was a topic for Henry Miller seventy years ago and if it will be a hot issue for activists seventy years in the future, what then is the benefit that will be derived from doing the work necessary to post columns online about the issues that are generating the news events that transpire as the United States prepares to celebrate the workers of the world on Labor Day of 2012? (Were the people who worked to establish Labor Day as a legal holiday, asked the HUAC question?)
If the prospect of providing reading matter for a bookstore customer seventy years in the future were very rational, then working to do some fact finding and providing some speculative comments about the personality of a Mormon bishop might be worth the effort, but if seeking fame and fortune are not valid motives for doing all the required labor, then the only reason left is: "Just for the fun of it." If that's the case . . . .
If Scanlan's Magazine was open to sending a leading practitioner of the Gonzo style journalism to report on the festivities surrounding the running of the Kentucky Derby, then maybe (just maybe mind you) they might be willing to give the World's Laziest Journalist a similar assignment and send him back to the Oscars - .
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