Why people are all "wee-weed" up
I sent this as a comment to Bob Herbert's column in today's New York Times:
Maybe people are "all wee-weed up" because Obama is waffling on the public option, escalating with no exit strategy in Afghanistan, waffling on "don't ask don't tell", dragging his feet on a withdrawal from Iraq, etc. Start leading aggressively on these issues and we'll wee-wee down.
Maybe people are "all wee-weed up" because Obama is waffling on the public option, escalating with no exit strategy in Afghanistan, waffling on "don't ask don't tell", dragging his feet on a withdrawal from Iraq, etc. Start leading aggressively on these issues and we'll wee-wee down.
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I think people are all wee-wee'd up because August is a vile evil month and deserves elimination. So what we need to do is start a movement to abolish august and apportion its days among the better months. February got shorted anyhow, as did September, June, and November.
Dogs are offended by having the sultriest, most humid days of the year named after them: that is the malady behind the hangdog expression, which I also happen to see on political addicts as well as puppies trying to cool off.
Nothing much happens in August because nothing much can happen.--except road rage on and off the road because it's too darn hot, too darn wet, too darn dry, too darn hurricane filled, too darn filled with other forms of hot swirling air, too darn filled with forest fires, and too darn filled with fiery denunciations of everyone. They barely notice because they're to busy fierily denouncing everyone else.
So Down with August. I've had it with August.
N.B. I know this creates problems for the dozenists here. I'm not advocating selling eggs by elevenses, or anything radical like that. Actually we could dump January, too, and go metric with our calendar like the French tried to do in the Napoleonic era. Eeek. advocating a French idea. Forget I mentioned it.
August 22, 2009 10:19 AM | Reply | Permalink
And besides, August is so European.
August 22, 2009 7:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe you should move to Minnesota. 61 degrees and clear at 9:30. Darn near perfect.
August 22, 2009 10:25 AM | Reply | Permalink
I was in Minnesota for the Fringe Festival in Minneapolis. My brother performed. The day I arrived I wished I had brought a jacket, The next two days perspiration was dripping off me like sweat. I wouldn't mind being there right now, though, 77 with 85% humidity. Fog sitting right off shore and sweat sitting on just about everything.
But then I delivered mail in Minneapolis during the December rush. Warmest it got in ten days was minus 14, with -25 normal at night. If one was wee-wee'd out then it would have been frozen wee wee.
August 22, 2009 10:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
Well, I have to admit we just had 3 days of rain. Late August is usually pretty nice here. It was dry through July so the state bird, the mosquito, has missed us this year.
August 22, 2009 11:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
Had geography professor from Minnesota, he once told us; in the spring, the first day above freezing everyone would be out washing their cars
August 22, 2009 7:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, no, they'll be out driving them with the top down.
August 22, 2009 9:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
wee-wee down
ha ha ha
very good
August 22, 2009 4:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
I object to Amikes calls to eliminate August. I object and, furthermore, denounce the whole idea! Even chickens need birthdays, and if thy aren't born in hot, sultry months, they never can achieve hot and sultry political thoughts.
Ack!
I dunno, wee-weeing down seems like a better bet than wee-weeing up.
August 22, 2009 4:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
You can choose any day in any other month, and while you're choosing you don't have to age. How about that for a deal?
Of course, we'd lose Obama's birthday too. Can the two of you share?
August 22, 2009 7:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
What August needs is a holiday. Whatever happened to those old fashioned liberals who got us new holidays.
August 22, 2009 6:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sigh.....dude: Obama has not waffled on the public option. The people that he referred to as being "wee wee'd" up were the members of the beltway media, especially in August.
August 22, 2009 7:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Sigh.....dude: Obama has not waffled on the public option."
Surely you jest!
August 22, 2009 7:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Again with the Obama-bashing. You are aware the President doesn't actually pass legislation? There are ten anti-Obama posts for every one placing blame where it really lies: with the leaders of Senate Finance, the Blue Dog Caucus, and the media. This constant argument that Obama has omnipotent powers, and is not using them because he is George W. Bush-lite, is so simpleminded that TPM has become little more than a tedious bitchfest for idiots. Go form your own goddamn third-party already, and shut the fuck up.
Decidedly NOT Recommended.
August 22, 2009 8:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, nothing like a little civil discourse to enlighten everyone.
August 22, 2009 9:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Then why does he keep mailing me spam telling me he's for stuff like "competition"? You know before this year when I thought of healthcare "competition" was just never something that came to mind. Competition!@#$#! I don't want competition, I want single-payer universal healthcare for all Americans!
August 22, 2009 9:37 PM | Reply | Permalink