U.S. Common Sense

Source:  Vulgataire - Vulgataire’s World

Still slacking on posting regularly, but there you are.  Ok so the Supreme Court is back in action and the Scalia parodies are running rampant on NPR, Slate and others along with Thomas’ book tour.  On a special side note the most entertaining hour I have had in a long time was Sean Hannity and Thomas on the radio this past week (close second the Top Chef Finale).  What the hell is wrong with Clarence Thomas? I know there isn’t a real answer but you have to wonder don’t you.  He just seems so angry at everyone and his book has largely been panned by the “drive-by” (haha) media.  I know I’m not going to waste my weekend reading it, nor will I spend money for the displeasure.

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Thomas leads nicely into the theme of free-speech (something he was happily taking away from individuals and handing to corporations last term).   Now for the second in 3 months Southwest Airlines has forced a passenger to change clothes with threat of deplane-ing (which is so not a word).  Surely after the first one blew up in the airlines faces they would have beat it into their bitchy stewardesses’ heads (thats right stewardess not flight attendent or flying aisle manager or whatever they prefer to be called) that even thought they might find a shirt advertising a fishing shop that implies auto-erotic pleasures offensive, get the fuck over it!

This is becoming an overall issue.  People seem to be taking themselves way to seriously.  I know that in post 9/11 America airline employees have new authority for safety measures, but lets separate the threats from the jokes folks.  To be perfectly frank I find the clothes that people wear while travelling mildly disturbing at times (but I have a hunch my opinion differs from those at southwest).  The people i find disturbing are the fanny packed, children toting, morbidly obese middle Americans who never travel and can’t figure out how to get through security or board a plane without creating such a huge situation that you want to choke them with their fanny packs.

Meanwhile expressing opinions seems to be going out of style faster than the faux-hawk.  Unless you were camping out inside a log this past week it was impossible to avoid the arguments  coming from all pundits about Rush Limbaugh’s statements (phony soldiers).  Personally I could give a shit (I think his “Barack the Magic Negro” song merited a little more comment) about the statement, but his defense to the liberal outcry was “you took it out of context, don’t you support free-speech, besides your the ones who betray the troops by not loving bush enough”.  And of course the other side with their letter to clear channel asking them to decry Rush (one of their biggest money makers).  Were we not promised a difference from this congress.  “We won’t get bogged down in stone throwing, we want to make a difference and stop this war”, how’s that going anyway?

Rush is a big, fat idiot but we already knew that.  Harry Reid is an idiot too, which was kind of obvious from the first time he was elected the Democrat leader in the Senate (does anyone else remember his first opposition response to the state of the union, note he hasn’t had one since despite being leader).  I keep wondering how are the dems no more popular when I hear Bush vetoing S-Chip, and then i remember that their leadership is short bus material.  It is more than fine to leave the punditry to the pundits and keep your head above it as a politician, really it is.

So nothing is getting done now, but the future is bright right?  Am i gonna need shades?  Well, not so far.  Lets say that the chafe has been separated from the wheat in this election already and we take the top two candidates from each party.  We get Rudy, Fred, Barack, and Hillary.  Hmmm, should we be overjoyed or overconcerned?  Rudy has about as much of a Presidential image as Borat (and oddly enough a similar take on foreign policy, see the multiple reviews of his article from foreign affairs).  He hasn’t gotten the knack of sounding worthy of authority either in context or in intonation, the only thing he is good at is getting indignant or answering his cell-phone.  Then we have big Fred, lucky for him everyone seems to have forgotten that when he was a Senator he did almost nothing and usually took his lunch at around 11:30 and never returned.  Honestly I have nothing against this because the less the government does the less they fuck-up, but maybe this isn’t a great idea following Mr. 10-hours a night.

Then we have Barack-I swear I have enough experience-Obama and his surprisingly controversial wife.  Her business connections are troubling to say the least (look up the food company and ‘non-profit’ hospital she sits on the boards of) and are in complete contrast to her husbands political belief.  And finally Hillary-I swear I have a sense of humor-Clinton.  Her laugh is scary, her vote on the Iran bill is scary, her lead going into the primaries is scary, her husband is not so scary.  Please don’t let her set women back another 30 years, pretty please.

Here is a list of candidates who barely exist but really should be given a chance: Bill Richardson, Ron Paul, Joe Biden, Chris Dodd, Mike Huckabee (minus his whole evolution thing), ANYONE ELSE WHO ISN’T AN EXTREMIST OR STRANGE AS HELL!  All I have left to say is, if Rudy wins I’m out!  I used to live in Canada and still know some people who can get me a work visa, I formerly had dual citizenship with the UK, and I speak fluent French I’ve got options.  But I’d rather stay, as long as he doesn’t.