Mike's Blog Round Up
Good morning. I'm Lance Mannion and I want to put you behind the wheel of a brand-new Toyota Prius. I'd like to put me behind the wheel of a brand-new Toyota Prius too. But I can't. I have to make-do with my old rusted heap of a Taurus wagon and you'll have to settle for following the links as I continue my week guest hosting the blog round-up here at Crooks and Liars.
I blog about politics, popular culture, unpopular culture, and popular mechanics at my blog, so don't be surprised if one of my links this week takes you to an article on small engine repair or the latest trends in oragami.
Not today though. Today we've got:
At echidne's place, Olvlzl looks at the tiny house movement and the work being done by a group called the Mad Housers, a volunteer organization that builds tiny houses for the homeless.
At corrente, lambert wonders if the Iraq War for Oil is going to be the first successful business venture that George W. Bush ever pulled off.
Roy Edroso, suffering a crisis of confidence, is wondering if his movie reviews are up to snuff. To answer the question, he compares his review of No Country for Old Men with that of noted the noted film critic and aesthete, Jonah Goldberg.
Maha distills Michael Kinsley's analysis of Fred Thompson's and Mike Huckabee's problems trying to pass themselves off as real conservatives to the "conservatives" who make up the Republican Right in a post titled Republicans and the T Word.
On the subject of Thompson, a lot of people were shocked by Fred Thompson's somnambulistic turn at the last Republican debate. Not Bob Stein though. Bob sees Thompson's sleepwalking through the campaign as part of a sly like a fox plan to differentiate himself from the hyper-active Rudy Giuliani and the frenetic screwing-up of George W. Bush and "doze all the way to the White House."
And nature writer and blogger Chris Clarke takes a walk under the earth at Creek Running North and Striking Emmy Award-winning comedy writer and blogger Ken Levine lists a few good things that have come out of the TV writers strike.
When people fear the government, you have tyranny, but when government fears the people, you have liberty.
-Thomas Jefferson
The richest one percent of the population have two political parties. Shouldn’t the rest of us have at least one?
- Michael Moore
...the readings of history and anthropology in general give us no reason to believe that societies have built-in self-preservative systems. and therefore we can’t say that man will be sensible enough not to destroy himself.
- Margaret Mead
Kathy Griffin bitch slaps Bill Donohue. Video here.
"The United States is in no sense founded upon the Christian doctrine."
- George Washington
"The Bible is not my book, and Christianity is not my religion."
- Abraham Lincoln
So 'Dozing his way to the White House' is what makes Thompson a 'sleeper'?
I think he's just being quiet because the writers are on strike. As soon as the strike is over, he'll say some more stupid things.
Bush's business ventures were successful, so long as you use the right metrics. They're purpose was to make sure that the right people got payola.
The Iraq war is a similar venture who's purpose is to give people huge volumes of payola.
These two ventures only seem like failures because we make a assumptions about how to measure success, that don't align with the metrics used by Bush's owners.
Bush's 'First Successful Business Venture' is going to be the obscene amount of money he is offered for his 'memoirs' when he leaves the presidency. If he were smart, he'd arrange to be impeached, the price would go up by quantum leaps. Of course, if he were smart, he wouldn't be George Bush.
But you know what, he's probably going to blow even this sure-fire bonanza. When the publisher gets a look at the first draft, with page after page of 'I don't recall', scribbled in crayon, he's gonna sue 'W' for the return of the advance, and the cancellation of the contract. If he has a smart lawyer, the publisher might even get to foreclose on the Crawford ranchita.
And 'W' would end up back home, having to live with the folks. 'HW', who bursts into tears every time he sees his idiot son, wouln't be able to handle that for long, so soon, it would be just 'W' and Mama bush, the way it should be, 'W''s fantasy come true.
She would give him an allowance for mowing the lawn, and he'd end up OK.
Before Huckabee spends a lot of time and effort trying to 'pass' as a conservative, he ought to concentrate on bamboozeling the public enough to 'pass' as a rational, reality- based human.
"We has met the enemy, and he is us". - Andy Capp
The only 'good' thing that's come out of the writer's strike that I can see, is the long, ridiculous, funny, stupid thread on Jay Leno in C&L.
Liberal AND Proud @ 8:
To paraphrase Pogo, 'They', and 'Them', is 'We'.
Do those 'tiny houses for the homeless' have round 'doors', and places to perch?
I have a couple of scrub jays hanging around my place that are too lazy to build a nest, where can I put in an order?
Oversaturated
Preacher Boob @ 11:
Scrub jays? I thought you were talking about houses for hobbits.
The republican youtube debate featuring Big Gay Al
http://youtube.com/watch?v=HZmu9OFuPjk
Thank you, Lance, for the turn-on to the Mad Housers, which eventually led me to the site of the now-closed appropriate technology show at the Cooper_Hewitt Museum in NYC. http://other90.cooperhewitt.org/about/
I am in the wrong line of work. Should be trying to devise ever simpler and more elegant (and cheap to produce) solutions for the less blessed with wealth than us. If I could be smart enough to come up with the idea for the Q-Drum for water transport ( http://other90.cooperhewitt.org/Design/q-drum ) and see it to production I could die fulfilled.
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