We'll Survive, Somehow
A dispatch from the Idiot Culture notes that Tom Delay is apparently leaving a show called Dancing With the Stars. If you've seen this show (I witnessed a few clips of him shaking his booty on the Internet) you're perhaps left shaking your head that a guy famous for political corruption is reduced to trying to change the subject in such humiliating fashion. If it's a little hard to remember what all that fuss was about, we outlined it here two years ago, when he left Congress.
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A candidate for lead of the month: A 7-year-old Ohio boy playing a game of backyard football was tackled by a deer.
http://www.vindy.com/news/2009/oct/13/ohio-boy-attacked-deer-while-playing-football/
Wow. Now there's something you don't see every day. Thanks for stopping by, Joe.
Sure thing. I am actually an avid reader, but follow on Google Reader using RSS so I'm not on the site to comment very often.
Thanks, Joe. How go things in the nation's capital? Come to think of it, I may be there in a couple weeks, so perhaps we can renew acquaintances and share a cocktail or two at the Hawk & Dove, a place that looms large in my memory.
Bread and circuses while Rome burns.
I was driving on Friday night, listening to NPR, and "On Point" was doing a roundtable about the news. A caller came on air and said it all in a nutshell:
"There are so many important stories to be told right now, and yet the media, revealing their true magpie nature, dropped all of that to go chase a shiny balloon for a full day."
Right on. I couldn't have said it better. "Idiot culture," indeed.
What in god's name was all that baloon baloney about? I must admit I didn't read it, because the headlines made it appear to be so very inconsequential.
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