Jettin’

As mentioned in the last TAR post, I’m leaving town for a few days, starting about as soon as I post this entry. Back early next week. Be good, all.

The Thanksgiving kitchen

At some point in time, my wife must have said to me, “Honey, we’re going to paint the kitchen on Thanksgiving. And the day after that.”

At that moment, I surely must have groaned aloud. I mean, wouldn’t you? The thing is, I don’t remember the exchange. This is where M would likely interject, “See, you don’t listen to me,” and I’d have flat nothin’ to say in my defense. Be that as it may, a-paintin’ is just what we did on the first two days of our four-day Thanksgiving holiday.

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Associates without end

By now, you’d think Zarqawi would be down to the guy who fetches his Pellegrino.

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Roy Blunt knows manure

What’s that smell?

Insert your own Roy Blunt joke here:

Majority Leader Roy Blunt (R-K Street) has filed legislation declaring that manure is not toxic.

What’s it all about? Doing favors for the agribusiness industry, as usual:

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Adam and Eve rode dinosaurs to church

No kidding.

Looking greyly at Black Friday

Must…eat…brains…

Every damn year, it’s the same damn story, told in pretty much the same damn way. The economic fetishization of the day after Thanksgiving never fails to repel me on a variety of levels. First off, it’s wrapped in a lie, or perhaps just a lazy misunderstanding: it’s considered by many the busiest shopping day of the year, and it’s not. Secondly, the vaunted importance of the day is parrotted by national and local media to the point that you think you’re actually missing out on something, when all you’re missing is the opportunity to orbit your local Googleria shopping mall in a desperate search for a parking space, or the chance to be elbowed by a balding father of three while scrambling for the last XBox 360 on the shelf. Thirdly, and most irritatingly, there’s an implicit idea that this is the only thing that you should be doing, this shopping. Many people have the day off, and they haven’t the foggiest idea what to do with themselves. They already watched TV the day before. They have largely forgotten how to read. The idea of sitting and talking to one another makes them break out in hives. Fortunately, the guy on the TV screen says, “Go out and spend money! Everybody’s doing it!” And people do, no doubt with a sigh of relief. There’s a Dawn of the Dead (the original, that is) aspect to Black Friday that makes you want to board up the windows and load up the thirty-ought-six.

Or maybe it’s just me.

The post-Thanksgiving blog entry

Many blogs offer up a “Have a happy T-Day” post and then fall relatively silent for a day or so. Waveflux just goes silent, because who are we to wish you anything?

Anyway: we’re back, off and on, for the next few days.

Sauron still on speaking tour

Still spewing toads

The Dark Lord continues his tough-guy “hitback” tour, stealing the “I word” from Rep. John Murtha and basically calling his opponents nasty names.

In other news, water is still wet.

Meanwhile, Rep. Charlie Rangel smacks Mr. Five Deferments around:

The feud between Vice President Cheney and Rep. Charlie Rangel reignited as the Harlem lawmaker ripped the veep as a draft dodger who found it “easy to fight [a war] with other people’s children.”

The decorated Korean War veteran took aim at Cheney after the White House put Vietnam War hero Rep. Jack Murtha (D-Pa.) in its cross hairs for recanting his support for the Iraq war and calling for the troops to return home.

“Cheney is like a chess player; he likes to move other people’s pieces. In this case, it’s sending other people’s kids to war,” Rangel told the Daily News.

Murtha had made a similar assault on Cheney’s toughness, saying, “I like guys who got five deferments and never been there and send people to war.”

Tough.

Addendum: Alex at Martini Republic pretty much nails it.

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“Approaching to genius”

John Hindraker, Power Line, July 28, 2005:

It must be very strange to be President Bush. A man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius, he can’t get anyone to notice.

We’re noticing.

Words just fail you sometimes.

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The following quote is dedicated to Robert Blake

Al Pacino as attorney Arthur Kirkland in …And Justice For All:

My client, the Honorable Henry T. Fleming, should go right to fucking jail! The son of a bitch is guilty!

So. I wonder how Baretta’s gonna come up with thirty million dollars.

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