First, Stephen Colbert honored the Rosa Parks of Male Sluts:
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Funny part of this: I didn't know Patrick L. Norton actually had a fake LAST name, too!
Next, it shouldn't be funny, but in an odd way, it is. Here's the AOLNews.Com teaser headline regarding the tragic suicide of designer Alexander McQueen:
God, what a drama mcqueen.
Also more odd than funny is that Republican Senate candidate Danny Tarkanian is running this ad even though, perhaps he hadn't heard, health care reform is by all accounts dead:
I mean, if people told Harry Reid this, his best response might be: "Oh, don't worry about it. I already killed that all by myself. We're good."
Meanwhile, Time Magazine slobbers all over Viva Elvis. Evidently when Cirque tells reviewers not to say anything until Feb. 19, they really only mean it if you're going to offer even a single critical statement. Richard Corliss, apparently, could find nothing to temper his exuberance. But what's even stranger is that I didn't realize just how DEEP Viva Elvis actually is. Here's the screen shot from Time...
...and here's a close-up of the caption under that photo:
Oops.
I don't know why I've been away so long from the various comics-related blogs, but this morning, having trouble sleeping, I made it back to the Comics Curmudgeon just in time for this classic. Click on it to read the analysis:
While there, I discovered GarfieldMinusGarfield.Net. The blogger removes Garfield from all the cartoons and suddenly it makes hysterical sense. You have to see several to really get it, tho, so click on these:
And here's the shocker: Garfield cartoonist Jim Davis LOVES it. Not only did he not sue, he sent over his compliments. Wow, huh?Don't forget to join us at LVRocks.Com from 4-6 pm PT on Saturday for an hour of The Petcast followed by an hour of The Strip. See here for details.
5 comments:
Hmmm. No. Health Care Reform is still on the table. You should look up: Pelosi and Trick.
The Senate can still vote on Reconciliation.
Oh, it totally SHOULD be and this whole 60-votes-to-pass crap is so anti-Constitutional that it drives me nuts and I *so* wish the GOP had killed it when THEY didn't like it so the government could get on functioning the way the founders actually intended. I didn't like it in the early 00's and I don't like it now. But the HCR bill as it is presently arranged won't go anywhere. Maybe pieces of it will get through in other forms. Or loads more people will just lose their health insurance until they start voting in their own self-interest. But any which way, HCR on the scale it could have last fall is not going to happen. The president has made that clear. He's not going to sanction any backdoor games or he'll be crucified for it. I just wish the D's had the stones to force the Republicans to ACTUALLY filibuster on something like the jobs bill. That would be great political theater akin to Clinton forcing the GOP to shut down the gov't. But they won't. Boo.
The filibuster didn't exist for the Republicans before the HCR passed the Senate. Now things have changed.
It is Constitutional to use the filibuster. It worked for the Democrats when they were in the minority, and now they are useful for the Republicans ONLY AFTER Senator Brown won in Massachusetts.
Why not admit the bungling of the Democrats? If they even bothered being bi-partisan, they could have passed real reform, instead of this crap sandwich. The Democrats are posed to lose their majority if they persist.
It should be clear that the Democrats passed a leftist Health Care bill that barely passed the House and Senate, and the public really hates it.
Anon: Actually, as I said, I hated the 60-vote filibuster back then, too. And I *did* admit the Democrats lost HCR on their own. That's precisely what I was getting at in this post. But I disagree with you on why. It went down because the D's were unable to move fast enough and were unable to argue coherently for it to the American public. And the saddest part of the second part is that they had all the emotional arguments on their side. it shouldn't have been difficult to persuade Americans being crushed under the system that exists now to support changes. But they failed.
Also, the only "bipartisan" answer the R's have is tort reform which is actually, ironically, a limit on free enterprise. It's saying that in this particular area, we're putting, essentially, salary caps. I don't necessarily oppose that, but I love how the right is happy to have gov't interference in the marketplace when it suits their constituencies.
And there's the problem right there. Both sides are hypocrites, both sides switch sides at a moment's notice for whatever short-term gain they need. But people like this commenter would never admit that. He/She would just move right along to Hannity's next talking point. Sad.
Anon: Actually, as I said, I hated the 60-vote filibuster back then, too. And I *did* admit the Democrats lost HCR on their own. That's precisely what I was getting at in this post. But I disagree with you on why. It went down because the D's were unable to move fast enough and were unable to argue coherently for it to the American public. And the saddest part of the second part is that they had all the emotional arguments on their side. it shouldn't have been difficult to persuade Americans being crushed under the system that exists now to support changes. But they failed.
Also, the only "bipartisan" answer the R's have is tort reform which is actually, ironically, a limit on free enterprise. It's saying that in this particular area, we're putting, essentially, salary caps. I don't necessarily oppose that, but I love how the right is happy to have gov't interference in the marketplace when it suits their constituencies.
And there's the problem right there. Both sides are hypocrites, both sides switch sides at a moment's notice for whatever short-term gain they need. But people like this commenter would never admit that. He/She would just move right along to Hannity's next talking point. Sad.
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