Month: November 2006

Some random thoughts on the election:

  • Karl Rove must have flunked “the math” in high school. That, or he looked it up on “the Google“
  • I guess Rick Santorum will have plenty of time to devote to re-reading J.R.R. Tolkien. (That, or the man-on-animal sex he seemed to find so fascinating…)
  • The main reason cited last night for Joe Lieberman’s re-election was experience. Lieberman has it; Lamont didn’t. So the voters don’t necessarily like you Joe, or your politics, or your cozying up to the Bush administration. But they figure, hey, at least he’ll know how the copy machine works.
  • Winning? Much, much better than that other thing.

Oh, and Donald Rumsfeld has stepped down. I may actually cry from happiness here.

Britney Spears files for divorce in LA.

No! If those two crazy kids couldn’t make it work…well, actually, then I think there’s lots of hope for the rest of us. As a civilization, you know.

Did anyone not see this coming? Although, in Spears’ defense, this second marriage did last longer than her first. But, then again, so do most three-day weekends.

You can go back to not caring about either of them again.

“I don’t care how fucking runny it is. Fetch hither le fromage de la Belle France!”

AFP New EU carry-on rules keep exploding camembert off planes:

Such were the instructions being given to passengers leaving France Monday as new EU-wide restrictions on liquids and soft products came into effect to prevent terrorists smuggling explosives on planes.

According to detailed advice given by the Aeroports de Paris managing company that runs the capital’s airports, some of France’s most favoured comestibles have fallen foul of the new rules.

“As a general rule, any malleable product is forbidden,” it said on its website.

You can turn just about anything into a Monty Python sketch, if you just try a little. Like a lot that’s happened in the past five years, this would almost be funny if it wasn’t so stupid and disturbing.

From Maureen Dowd’s recent interview with Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert:

So it’s impossible to go too far?

STEWART: No, too far is different for every person. I would hope that my sense of humanity prevents me from saying things that are exploitative or so denigrating and derogatory as to be offensive. But I don’t understand how anyone can consider jokes about this stuff worse than the reality of it. We’re not out to provoke. We’re not out to shock. There is no joy in stepping over a line. I don’t think there’s any way to possibly offend in a comedic sense when reality has such a desperate foundation to it.