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The staff at the Amalgamated Conspiracy Theory Factory is working at maximum capacity this year because of the 50th anniversary of the vanishing grassy knoll persons of interest, the Cheshire cat WMD's in Iraq, the building that just sorta fell down, etc., but the news item about some folks urging a new investigation into the accident that caused TWA flight 800 to fall out of the sky is causing the Personnel Department at the Amalgamated Factory (at a secret location in the Sierra Nevada foothills) to contact retirees and make lucrative offers to lure them back to the daily grind.
If any of the beloved inhabitants of the White House are ever caught in just one lie then patriotic Democrats will be forced by logic into considering the possibility that all the wild conspiracy theories from the last half century (starting on November 22, 1963?) have been refuted with lies. Fortunately, the Democrats love the current occupant of the Oval Office so much that when he makes the assertion that the FISA courts, which have made 10,000 decisions in favor of government snooping but that the details of everyone of those cases makes complete secrecy necessary, is proof that he kept his promise to deliver transparency. The Democrats believe him without flinching. It's as if all the Presidents have combined to pitch a perfect game as far as fibbing about mysterious unexplained phenomenon is concerned.
Jersey Bill takes a very dim view of the opportunity to jump on a bus near his home and go over to New York City to absorb some of the many cultural offerings and since many tourists remark that San Francisco bears a family resemblance to the Big Apple, ("Manhattan with hills added.") we were not surprised when Jersey Bill informed us that he and his wife intended to get the hell out of Frisco sooner than we expected.
Thus, instead of spending Father's Day continuing our tour guide service for a long time friend, we impulsively took one of the panhandlers in Berkeley out for an Eggs Benedict breakfast. It was the first time he ever had that treat. Listening to that fellow do a Howard Beale style rant we wondered why talk radio (or at least local cable access TV) doesn't offer the audience a real choice and have a homeless pundit to push the debate to extreme freedom of speech limits? Critics of talk radio contend that it is a variation of "good cop/bad cop" because the conservative hosts deliver conservative talking points and the callers second the motion. On liberal talk shows, the host spends most of the phone time refuting callers who spout conservative talking points.
Do "they" just want to spin the illusion of public debates on all the current topics or do "they" really want a modern example of "no holds barred" brainstorming to solve problems? Doesn't being "intransigent" and ignoring other points of view, leave a whole lot more time for watching the NBA finals, the Stanley Cup playoffs, the mid season baseball games, and the NFL preseason exhibition games? (Can players earn bonuses for extremely hard hits during an exhibition game?)
[Note from the Photo Editor: The suicide hotline on the Golden Gate Bridge serves as a very grim reminder that there is a potential for some very lugubrious consequences if the United States Supreme Court makes some unpopular decisions later this month.]
We reminded Jersey Bill of Hunter S. Thompson's quote about how life should be lived: "Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming -- Wow -- What a ride!"
Now the disk jockey will celebrate National Music day by playing: "Just keep walking, Ambrose (Part V)," Duane Eddy's Rebel Rouser," and Waylon Jenning's "I've always been crazy." We have to go observe Cuckoo Warning Day and International Surfing Day. Have a "hang ten" type week.
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