THE MONKEYS ARE MY CO-PILOT

This is what my brain feels like all the time. Fact.



[Via Archie McPhee’s Endless Geyser Of Awesome]

Asleep at the wheel,

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THIS AIN’T ROCK AND ROLL, THIS IS HOMICIDE

And now, for yr pleasure, the The Mystic Astrologic Crystal Band will sing about the dilemma of asking the neighbors to borrow guns and getaway cars for business purposes.

[Via PCL Linkdump]

Shoot ‘em down, baby,

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SARAH PALIN IS PLEASED TO GET ACROSS TO YOU FOR A VERY URGENT AND PROFITABLE BUSINESS PROPOSAL ...

I probably should blog about the US presidential election race more than I do, but I don’t really have the time to do it justice, and I don’t live in Iowa.

But it’s been ages since I had an excuse to use my Sarah Palin icon, so I might as well do something on Palin’s announcement that she’s not running for president, and that her big bus tour to all the major campaign events talking about how she would fix America wasn’t actually her campaigning, it was just her doing a big bus tour to all the major campaign events talking about how she would fix America. Just like that documentary about her political career and her vision for America if she were president wasn’t a campaign film, it was just a documentary about her political career and her vision for America if someone exactly like her were president.

Not unsurprisingly, Jon Stewart has the best coverage, and may possibly have broken the story that SarahPAC soliciting donations to “convince” Sarah to run as late as the third week of September when allegedly she’s known since June that she wasn’t going to run.

Good catch. But I don’t think it will be all that big a deal in the end.

For one thing, I doubt most of Palin’s supporters feel ripped off. Many are already rationalizing her decision as a smart move. Okay, not all of them. But I’m not aware of anyone demanding a refund (apart from the odd movie critic who saw The Undefeated).

Also, campaign financing is so corrupt at the moment that Palin’s “will she, won’t she, give her money in case she does” schtick is pretty tame by comparison, even if she did secretly decide four months ago that she wouldn’t run and kept the PAC going anyway. Hell, there’s probably some obscure loophole that makes that legal.

Besides, Christine O’Donnell has a PAC and all she's been doing all year is promoting a book that is doing about as well as Sarah Palin's documentary. So why can’t Sarah have a PAC and go on a bus tour pretending to think about running for president?

Running to stand still,

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