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.]
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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)