| Friday, October 27, 2006 |
 | You know, I detest the casual cretinism of the poor, sensitive flower wishing that he or she could live the untroubled life of the commoner, sequestered from the deep and terrible knowledge, the unearthly passions and the terrible pain of love and loneliness that they could never understand. Having said which, sometimes being an absolute cockwit feels like it must be so rewarding.
Elsewhere - Guardian meta-article - an article pretending to be about My Chemical Romance which is in fact about a Daily Mail article about My Chemical Romance - built around one killer line:
Despite all this, the Daily Mail's article has proved hard to ignore. That's partly because it was so shrill and barmy: the last time the Mail got this worked up about a bunch of black-clad youths, they were marching through London's East End with Oswald Mosley and the paper was encouraging readers to join them.
Personally, I don't think any band that I could beat up counts as a threat to our children, since our children could in turn beat me up.
Last word goes to My Chemical Romance versus David Bowie. Worth it for the comments alone.
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| Thursday, October 19, 2006 |
| In Maryland, Mr Steele tried to pre-empt Democratic attacks on his proximity to Mr Bush by appearing with a puppy in his arms.
The tactic didn't work. The Democrats snapped back immediately with a television ad showing Mr Steele and Mr Bush, locked together within a heart-shaped frame. "Michael Steele. He likes puppies, but he loves George Bush," the voiceover said.
Running for re-election in 2004, she told voters in Venice, Florida, that a "Middle Eastern" man had been arrested for trying to blow up the power grid of Carmel, Indiana. Neither the mayor of Carmel nor the governor of Indiana—nor anyone else acquainted with reality—had any idea what Harris was talking about.
Despite an international uproar over Abu Ghraib, Congress spent only twelve hours on hearings on the issue. During the Clinton administration, by contrast, the Republican Congress spent 140 hours investigating the president's alleged misuse of his Christmas-card greeting list.
Hastert is especially good at turning a blind eye to scandal: An aide says the speaker's office knew about Rep. Mark Foley's penchant for page boys three years ago, yet Hastert took no action to protect minors working for Congress.
"As the hobbits are going up Mount Doom, the Eye of Mordor is being drawn somewhere else," Santorum said. "It's being drawn to Iraq and it's not being drawn to the U.S. You know what? I want to keep it on Iraq. I don't want the Eye to come back here to the United States."
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