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Short List for Cabinet: When Enough's not Enough
So what is it about these short lists for cabinet positions? Since when has being short been seen as a virtue and tall as a disqualifier? Was this something Robert Reich started? Is Obama worried about competition? In any case I think it should stop. People can be qualified whether they're tall or not, and I look forward to the day when an openly tall person can hold office without being...er... looked down on by his or her fellow public servants.
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Bosh. I say they have no reason to live. What with their little hands and little eyes and the walkin' around tellin' great big lies, and whatnot. Why would anyone one want one in or 'round the cabinet?
December 6, 2008 12:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
You're talking short people, I'm talking tall. Ever seen Randy Newman stick up for tall people? Nope. Left to fend on their own. "First the came for the basketball players, and I wasn't one of them, so I didn't say a word. Then they came for the high jumpers, and I can't high jump worth shit, so I didn't say a word. Then they came for friends and family of Donald Trump..." You can see where it's heading.
December 6, 2008 1:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Why would anyone one want one in or 'round the cabinet?"
My brother once stored ol' Uncle Lou (5'1") in the kitchen cabinet for awhile, just to the left of the sink. Was Lou ever pissed when he sobered up, screaming like hell to let him outta' there!
But we all thought it was entertaining.
And short ones work better than long ones for placement in the cabinet.
December 6, 2008 2:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
I hear the police raiding Spawn Ranch found Charlie Manson hiding in a really tiny bathroom cabinet. Quite a small guy.
December 6, 2008 4:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, you knew him as Charlie Manson. We knew him as ol' Uncle Lou... but that was before he started hanging out with the gals down by the Dixie Creme Donut Shop. Bismarks, sex and 'ludes - he never did quite get over it - you could see it in his eyes!
December 6, 2008 4:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why would he want to get over it?
December 6, 2008 6:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
I don't understand why one would want any cabinet member with a short list.
We are in a two-front, never ending war on terror, at the front edge of an economic crisis not seen since the dust-bowl days and a newly discovered Center Left (oh, that's right - I said it) political will.
We don't have time to be walking in circles!
At the very least, I would hope President Elect Obama nominates cabinet members with a list to the left! Our nation cannot survive any more right[wing] spin.
December 6, 2008 4:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sorry, this is a non-serious post allowing us to talk about stupid shit in reverse logic and display how witty and clever we are. If you want to discuss actual politics, well, there are plenty of available threads. Perhaps I'll even post one of those tomorrow, but for now I'm basking in boffins.
December 6, 2008 6:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Don't you think you're being kind of short with him?
December 6, 2008 6:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
I was trying to take the long view. I didn't want it to get too drawn out - that's kind of painful, and this isn't a Procrustean blog, not interested in stretching for truth, no matter what Goya told you.
December 6, 2008 6:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Actually, what I meant was: don't you think you're being kinda short with him. Ba dum bimp.
December 7, 2008 2:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Main Entry: "list"
Pronunciation: \ˈlist\
Function:
intransitive verb
: to tilt to one side ; especially of a boat or ship : to tilt to one side in a state of equilibrium (as from an unbalanced load) — compare heel
transitive verb
: to cause to list
Sorry I didn't understand that non-serious funny-bone shit.
December 6, 2008 6:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Now you're talking!
But wasn't List a piano player? Threw an extra "Z" in there someplace just to distinguish himself as a real Artiste, as I recall. A snobbish asshat! (Just had to get that word in there. My favorite, and I hadn't used it yet today.)
December 6, 2008 7:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's Goodbye Porkpie Hat. Piehat for short. Goodbye Pork for long.
December 6, 2008 7:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sniff... sniff... Thought that was a taunt at first glance till I noticed the 'long' descriptor. Carry on.
December 6, 2008 11:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hard to get over Identity Politics when you're the main course, eh? Care for a tofufurter?
December 7, 2008 1:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Actually List is a former student of mine, now an economist at the Univ. of Chicago. I knew him as an extremely bright, very hard-working student before he went to get his Ph.D. Now one or all of those attributes quite surely disqualify him....but I'm not sure for what???
December 6, 2008 10:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Not enough time playing Operation as a kid. Nurse, forceps, remove funny bone, replace with ankle. Suture. Duct tape. Local anaesthetic. National anaesthetic. Perhaps a bit unaesthetic in the end.
December 6, 2008 7:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Enough's not enough. Less is more, more or less. Does that make less enough or more even less?
December 7, 2008 5:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
That'd be the short and long of it, yes (just to be brief)
December 7, 2008 1:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
long, tall, short, squat, rotund, sparse -- whatever. A list, however it fits into those descriptives can only have copious characters. And I speak of alphabets in contiguity forming apposite images contained in strange juxtapositions...
Heh. The Orange Beast done chewed something. ;)
December 7, 2008 4:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Buttons? Buttons? Who's got the buttons?
December 7, 2008 6:21 PM | Reply | Permalink