Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Noel Coward should sue the flying spaghetti monster for stealing his shit.
***Update***
I asked a Congressional aide recently whether the House would accept a deal where they pass the Senate bill first if Max Baucus promises to man a dunk tank for charity. He laughed, but I wasn’t (completely) joking.
Armstrong Williams is on the liberal MSNBC network trashing health care reform right now.
I think I am ready to shoot that groundhog.
Here’s hoping Obama strides into the Blair House HCR conference and challenges the Repubs:
If you’re not in it for love —
If you’re not willing to give it all you got…
Let me make it clear to you, my dears: I’m OUTA HERE!
P.S. Anybody got advice on how to get Microsoft Silverlight to load on Firefox?
Hammered:
I wish I had more to offer. But if I did, I would make you listen to Fillmore East 71. Mud shark.
The party’s over (EDIT: finally on YouTube!):
Moving to the subject on the minds of all those who pay too much attention to the Washington Post, Brauchli e-mailed City Desk a statement saying the following about Quinn’s execrable column, “The Party”: “Sally and I have agreed that the column will return to what had been its original focus on faith, family and entertaining and will appear online at “On Faith,” a section of washingtonpost.com that Sally guides.
Count me as sorry to see it go. If there is one document that explains contemporary American politics, it is this Quinn classic on Clinton’s impeachment. Nearly every word of the thing is a treasure, so I’ll just select a paragraph at random:
Muffie Cabot, who as Muffie Brandon served as social secretary to President and Nancy Reagan, regards the scene with despair. “This is a demoralized little village,” she says. “People have come from all over the country to serve a higher calling and look what happened. They’re so disillusioned. The emperor has no clothes. Watergate was pretty scary, but it wasn’t quite as sordid as this.”
Stick it in a time capsule, send it into outerspace. It will tell other civilizations more about us than Glenn Gould or Blind Wille Johnson ever could.
Props to Marshall Ramsey: Obama’s wearing the costume Lysacek took gold in, but of course Evan didn’t have to dead-lift all that Republican waste weight.
(I would link directly to Lysacek’s winning video, but bloody Microsoft Silverlight won’t load for me on Firefox or IE.)
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