The sad thing is how little impact this really has. A few of us will look at this and understand precisely what it says. The vast majority of Americans will just turn the page (or turned the page, I have no idea if there's any papers running reruns of this strip anymore) and tune in to Bill O'Reilly (or Air America, same difference) for their daily stupidity shots.
While I was away on job training this week, I tuned in Thursday night for one of George Carlin's shows on HBO. The man is one of my heroes. And he did a brief little skit about all the BS going on from our government right now, about the war, 9/11, and everything else. And the entire audience cheered and applauded, quite loudly. And all I could think of was to wonder how few of those people would even remember it in the morning, if any.
George Carlin -- and Bill Watterson -- have always made me laugh, and laugh hard. In both of these cases, however, I end up being depressed more than anything else.
This is actually from an article on "Calvin & Hobbes" that ran on Slate this week, on the occasion of the publication of The Complete Calvin & Hobbes. This is one of the strips they mentioned, noting that it ran on the eve of the first Gulf War.
Apropos of nothing in particular: Air America Radio did have a show that I mildly liked ("Unfiltered"), but they cancelled it to run a political call-in show hosted by Jerry Springer. [Write your own punchline here.]
Well different people will feel differently about this subject. To me, personally, it's not only in absolutely perfect taste, but required display on this day. Many others, of course, will feel differently.
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Date: 2005-11-12 00:38 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-12 02:39 (UTC)The sad thing is how little impact this really has. A few of us will look at this and understand precisely what it says. The vast majority of Americans will just turn the page (or turned the page, I have no idea if there's any papers running reruns of this strip anymore) and tune in to Bill O'Reilly (or Air America, same difference) for their daily stupidity shots.
While I was away on job training this week, I tuned in Thursday night for one of George Carlin's shows on HBO. The man is one of my heroes. And he did a brief little skit about all the BS going on from our government right now, about the war, 9/11, and everything else. And the entire audience cheered and applauded, quite loudly. And all I could think of was to wonder how few of those people would even remember it in the morning, if any.
George Carlin -- and Bill Watterson -- have always made me laugh, and laugh hard. In both of these cases, however, I end up being depressed more than anything else.
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Date: 2005-11-12 02:53 (UTC)Apropos of nothing in particular: Air America Radio did have a show that I mildly liked ("Unfiltered"), but they cancelled it to run a political call-in show hosted by Jerry Springer. [Write your own punchline here.]
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Date: 2005-11-12 05:36 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-12 02:55 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-12 05:37 (UTC)