Mickey and Adolf: My 60 Seconds with Newsweek Magazine
I keep a feed from Newsweek at the bottom of my Google homepage because of eternal gratitude to Evan Thomas, who interrupted a Reagan praise-fest on Meet the Press once upon a time with the observation that Reagan would have been impeached for Iran/Contra, except that everybody thought he was senile.
Harharharhar!!!
Today the top three stories for Newsweek online are...
1. Anna Quindlen says Obama broke all his campaign promises "to tackle the big stuff" because in Washington "very little of the big stuff gets done. It simply can't."
Obviously the half-witted Ms. Quindlen never heard of Abraham Lincoln, FDR, LBJ, Ronald Reagan, or Newt Gingrich, and thinks $23.7 trillion in guarantees for criminal bankers is "small stuff."
On to the next story! (Elapsed time: 30 seconds)
2. "How Will Michelle Obama Make Her Mark?"
Who gives a fuck? (Elapsed time: 5 seconds)
3."Like Mussolini and Stalin before him, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has erected his very own movie studio."
Chavez and Stalin? What next?
Mickey Mouse and Hitler! They were both in the movies!
(Elapsed time: 25 seconds)
And that was my minute with Newsweek Magazine.
It's teh humor again!
October 25, 2009 9:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
You forgot Mark Sanford's mash note to Ayn Rand.
October 25, 2009 12:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
And next week, Dick Cheney reviews Thus Spake Zarathustra.
October 25, 2009 1:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Speaking of Ayn Rand here's a great short quote from Gore Vidal about her I found at Empty Wheel yesterday:
"Ayn Rand is an odd little woman [who] is attempting to give a moral sanction to greed and self interest, and to pull it off she must at times indulge in purest Orwellian newspeak of the “freedom is slavery” sort. … it is gratuitous to advise any human being to look out for himself. You can be sure that he will. It is far more difficult to persuade him to help his neighbor to build a dam or to defend a town or to give food he has accumulated to the victims of a famine. But since we must live together, dependent upon one another for many things and services, altruism is necessary to survival. To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy. … Ayn Rand’s “philosophy” is nearly perfect in its immorality…
October 26, 2009 9:21 AM | Reply | Permalink
Michelle and Capone - both from Chicago!!! We see how she'll make her mark - she'll gas hippies in the park!!! Or start a white band with a brass section and protest ethics and slowly slide into some of the most hideous radio ballads ever!!!
A = B = C = Infinity!!!
And don't diss Nietschze - great producer & composer, everybody knows this is nowhere.
October 25, 2009 4:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
And you may call her Ayn Randy or L'il Organ Aynie, or Raggety Ayny, or perhaps Ayn' Miss B Haven.
But good even these troubled times people have a Russian Rasputina of their own to follow.
October 25, 2009 4:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
"A fake handshake don't make no man."
"Where'd you get the dumb idea
For all the secretive plutonic dating?"
Way better lyrics than Transylvanian Concubine!
October 25, 2009 5:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
But probably not as good as TrenchMouth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y83Arip9tiA
or even LeechWife:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWDDYtoAVzw&feature=related
Funny, in the 2nd one she reminds me of Cindy Lauper singing, "Girls just wanna have (a corset that crushes the pelvic cavity and causes renal failure and perhaps while we're at it a wee bit of but not too much) fun". But then I shouldn't give away the plot to Rose K. either.
Update TrenchMouth to 2009: "he was a part time blogger - he didn't have a lot to say".
October 25, 2009 6:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
I was looking for the lyrics of TrenchMouth online and what the heck did I see?
Necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis!
Holy Mother of Mercy!
October 25, 2009 6:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
And that's just the chorus!!!
October 26, 2009 9:25 AM | Reply | Permalink
Excellent post!
October 25, 2009 6:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
In the Rand view, businessmen are the elite. Scientists like Einstein would be considered chumps as for not making profit the primary basis of their existence. The derivative creators on Wall Street would be prime examples of Rand's superior lifeforms.
October 26, 2009 9:57 AM | Reply | Permalink