Would disregarding his mother's opinion help JEB establish an image of him as the political version of a rebellious youth? Are the Republicans going to use the "cross the red line" as an excuse to promote an image of Jim Backus in an apron to goad Obama into stretching the boundaries of Dubya's "Forever War" to include Syria?
Will the image of a reluctant JEB be used to set the stage for a carefully orchestrated campaign in the mainstream media to get him to accede to a public outcry to accept a draft nomination in 2016? What are the latest British bookie odds on JEB?
Would the do nothing party goad Obama into a war with Syria that would destroy America just to see Obama's legacy ruined? Is that a double standard of patriotism?
Meanwhile over on the campus of the Amalgamated Conspiracy Theory Factory, the staff has been alerted to a move to switch to a higher level of activity and that all leaves and vacations are being canceled to start work on new explanations to prove that some nefarious plot was unfolding recently. In the radical left wing (is that ironical or what?) of the main building, some extremists are pointing out that since some "fine tuning" of the chemicals in cannabis sativa are producing some very specific psychological reactions, a new possibility for accelerating the dumbing down of the USA exists. Could it be, they ask, that in a manner similar to the fluoride conspiracy theory "they" are dumping chemicals into America's water supply that cause people to become more bellicose, belligerent, and argumentative? Are psychologists calling it the "McLaughlin" effect?
Are the members of the mainstream media analyzing the implications of the challenge of assembling a detonator or when it comes time for them to do that do they suddenly switch to some innocuous bit of information that is interesting, possibly humorous, and completely irrelevant?
Is it true that a restaurant in San Francisco is about to become involved in a scandal that alleges they have been substituting horse meat as the main ingredient in their dog soup?
Saturday, May 4, will bee National Comic Book Day featuring some free comic books at locations around the USA. It is (coincidentally?) also Kentucky Derby Day.
[Note from the Photo Editor: The May Day Protest Parade in Oakland was very low key and lacking in news value, but the photos that the World's Laziest Journalist took at that event are the only available images with some "news value," so we figure using them is better than not using any at all.]
"I'm endorsing Mark Sanford for U.S. Congress because no one has done more to expose the sexual hypocrisy of traditional values in America today," was Larry Flynt's effort to win the "quote of the week" competition for the Kentucky Derby week.
Recently we suggested that Willie Nelson should sing a duet with Mick Jagger. The disk jockey recently found on Youtube a version of the perfect Derby Day song, "Dead Flowers," featuring Willie and Keith Richards so he'll start us out with that and follow it with Peter Paul and Mary's "Stewball," and Spike Jones' "Beetlebomb." We have to go make some bets. Have a "Mad Men" type week.
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