What grump wouldn't like the Eddie Haskell-ish trick of wrecking the economy and then ridiculing the folks collecting unemployment during the succeeding administration's effort to restore prosperity?
Is there a misanthrope alive this summer that doesn't see that the way to explain Alvin Greene's meteoric rise to fame and political prominence can be explained by the old concept of "charisma"?
Isn't it a shame that cartoonist <a href = http://www.charlesaddams.com/>Charles Addams</a> didn't live until "death panels" became one of Uncle Rushbo's recurring leitmotifs?
Back in the Sixties, liberal writers in the mainstream media (MSM) who couldn't write about very liberal programs and ideas learned they could pull an end-run on the conservative publishers by doing trend spotting stories about people with liberal points of view. For instance the New York media heavy hitters who couldn't be anti Vietnam War in their stories could write about folks who were such as Bob Dylan and Hunter S. Thompson and the Rolling Stone magazine. That brought bigger audiences to those cultural phenomenons which, in turn, helped them get their message out to a bigger audience. That way the frustrated writers on the nationally respected media plantations could claim that they had (indirectly) helped spread the liberal memes.
Does Sean Hannity or Bill O'Reilly ever mention online sites that pointed out the shortcomings of the Bush Junta? If there is a new online equivalent of the Berkeley Barb or the East Village Other will they ever become a cultural force thanks to trend spotting stories in the MSM?
Is helping to stifle voices of dissention a stealth way to help conservatives?
Does Murdock's media ever criticize BP? Was it a group of rogue miscreants who arranged for the Lockerby prisoner to go free in return for some off shore drilling rights from Libya?
Summer of 2010 was also when scientists made news by studying the DNA of Ozzy Osbourne. It was when the "cheesy easy song of the day" on the True Oldies Channel was in its first year of existence. It was also (personal note alert) when this columnist discovered Joe R. Lansdale, the man we proclaim to be the heir to wear the "best living" mantle at the next convention (known as <a href = http://www.bcon2010.com/> Bouchercon</a>) of hard-boiled detective story writers. BTW the convention will be held in San Francisco.
Will the summer of 2010 be referred to by techies as: "when Apple made their Edsel"?
In the summer of 2010, the conservatives are having a ball laughing at dumpster diving for kids and folks running out of their unemployment checks. Those compassionate conservative Christians are such cut-ups, aren't they? The web site <a href = http://teapartyjesus.tumblr.com/ >Tea Party Jesus</a> puts conservative quotes in the mouth of Christ. It's meant as irony.
You can help the restoration of the Bush family dynasty by writing to the managing editors of all national mainstream media and demanding that they omit any mention of , <a href = http://www.campaignwatch.org/more1.htm >Broward Savings and Loan</a> from their suck-up "news" stories.
Senator Jim Bunning's famous "Tough sh*t!" line may be a strong contender for the 2010 quote of the year.
Now the disk jockey will play "19th Nervous Breakdown," the "Easy Rider" soundtrack album, and "Helter Skelter." We have to go check out the topic of how to get a bet, on Jeb in 2012, with long odds, down now in Vegas. Have a "<a href =
http://greatbutforgotten.blogspot.com/>Great But Forgotten</a>" type week.
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