You Heard It First Here–NUTCASE!

(Wash Post) The Stupid Things People Said About Karr

That about says it all. The whole thing was marked by stupidity, stupidity in Thailand, in Boulder, and especially on the 24-hour all JonBenet fests on cable news, aptly satirized by Rob Corddry hiding out in the airliner toilet. Yes, wouldn’t it have been good to finally put this terrible incident to its final rest, to give some peace to that family? The Boulder DA literally HAD to check out Karr, if for no other reason than he was a fugitive who’d broken parole AND had confessed to the murder. But 12 days of constant bombardment with John Mark Karr just went to the toilet? I mean, come on, even his ex-wife said he couldn’t have done it and when you’re a kiddie porn addict and your ex actually provides you with an alibi, you know someone’s a few donuts shy of a dozen.

Our government isn’t the only thing that’s broken around here these days, our news media is running neck and neck with it. Keep the yahoos entertained and they won’t question what’s really going on in the world. We’ve done Orwell one better. In 1984 (and remember 1984 was just a number the protagonist Winston Smith picked at random and had nothing to do with the actual date of 1984–Orwell needed a date close enough to be scary and back in the 1940s when he wrote the book, if he’d used a date in the 21st century, it would have been brushed off as mere science fiction–our attitudes towards science fiction have changed a lot also in the last 70 years), the Ministry of Truth spouted propaganda and more propaganda. OUR Ministries of Fairness and Balance provide entertainment as well. All Sensationalism, All the Time! Citizen Hearst would be proud of his legacy.

Oh well, August IS a slow month. We got a good start on the Hail Dubyus! book we’ve been planning during the last few weeks of easing off on our normal schedule. We’ll be publishing the last of our retrospectives this Friday and then will take Monday off for the Labor Day holiday and then it’s back to our normal schedule for Wednesday and Friday of next week. Welcome back to school, kiddies 🙂

Oh, and welcome to the newest member of our backyard wildlife habitat–a ground hog with a taste for peanuts and sunflower seeds LOL.

Just The Kind Of Boss You Always Wanted, One Who’ll Fart In Your Face

(US News and World Report) By Paul Bedard: More from Washington Whispers, Animal House in the West Wing “He loves to cuss, gets a jolly when a mountain biker wipes out trying to keep up with him, and now we’re learning that the first frat boy loves flatulence jokes. A top insider let that slip when explaining why President Bush is paranoid around women, always worried about his behavior. But he’s still a funny, earthy guy who, for example, can’t get enough of fart jokes. He’s also known to cut a few for laughs, especially when greeting new young aides, but forget about getting people to gas about that.”

Dontcha just love a boss who plays pull my finger–especially when you know you can’t fart back?

Katrina Anniversary Memorial (August 3rd Anniversary Reprint Special)

A year after Katrina (and using one of my better cartoons from earlier this year to commemorate it) and it’s a good idea to review some of the info which is hitting the wires about this disaster which caused more deaths and more destruction than 9/11 to New Orleans, Louisiana and the usually ignored Mississippi, yet wasn’t caused by Islamic extremists, terrorists, or godless liberals. (AP) Democrats cite no-bid Katrina contracts The government awarded 70 percent of its contracts for Hurricane Katrina work without full competition, wasting hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars in the process, says a House study released Thursday by Democrats.”

(AP) 4 indicted over Katrina debris removal Just a local bunch of boys, but an indication of just how MUCH fraud is going on down there.

Hezbollah offers Lebanese relief “Hezbollah began doling out $12,000 in lump sums to homeless families last week so they could rent apartments and furniture for a year, he said. Any Lebanese who ventured near a tent set up as Hezbollah emergency headquarters said the offer far outstripped any effort made by Lebanon’s government.” Heck, it outstripped the paltry $2,000 our government doles out to Katrina victims.

(CBC) New Orleans phone book cut in half by Katrina Back in my youth, I’d break phonebooks in half when they were used up to impress people (it’s a trick). I don’t think I could do it to DC’s anymore but wow, New Orleans is down to a size I think I could STILL break in half.

(AP) Who’s to blame for state of New Orleans? At least it didn’t list the sinfulness of the New Orleansians.

(Reuters) Most Katrina claimants satisfied: insurance group Well, they WOULD say that, wouldn’t they? “but lawyers for claimants in one of the states call this figure ‘absurd and misleading.'”

(AP) Bush says Katrina recovery takes time Isn’t that what he said about finding WMDs in Iraq? Guess what, we still haven’t found those.