By Charles Krauthammer
Friday, July 18, 2008; Page A17
washingtonpost.com 071808

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/17/AR2008071701839....

be nice to mommy, don't talk to commies.

" be nice to mommy, don't talk to commies "



Another suburban family morning.
Grandmother screaming at the wall.

We have to shout above the din of our Rice Crispies
We can't hear anything at all.
Mother chants her litany of boredom and frustration,
But we know all her suicides are fake.

Daddy only stares into the distance
There's only so much more that he can take.
Many miles away something crawls from the slime
At the bottom of a dark Scottish lake.

Another industrial ugly morning
The factory belches filth into the sky.
He walks unhindered through the picket lines today,
He doesn't think to wonder why.
The secretaries pout and preen like cheap tarts in a red light street,
But all he ever thinks to do is watch.
And every single meeting with his so-called superior
Is a humiliating kick in the crotch.
Many miles away something crawls to the surface
Of a dark Scottish lake.

Another working day has ended.
Only the rush hour hell to face.
Packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes.
Contestants in a suicidal race.
Daddy grips the wheel and stares alone into the distance,
He knows that something somewhere has to break.
He sees the family home now looming in the headlights,
the pain upstairs that makes his eyeballs ache.
Many miles away there's a shadow on the door
Of a cottage on the shore
Of a dark Scottish lake............... ( Fade to black )

Excellent column.
Thanks for the link, FG!

Old Charlie appears to be upset at the fact that Obama is probably going to be the next president of the United States.

The Real Audacity of Vanity

Funny stuff.  Or maybe not.  Maybe the Onion is just saying its satire all along to get The Message across.  Am I just asking?

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/time_publishes_definitive_obama

"Vanity of Vanities, all is vanity"....didn't some guy say that once?????

sirmoonie wrote on Jul 19^th, 2008 at 12:42pm:

you beat Obama in B Ball- I thought you were white.

Lets see you no look bounce pass it, sniff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbypBFwJpW4

Some Guy wrote on Jul 19^th, 2008 at 12:55pm:

I can take 90-95% of whites and 60-65% of blacks in my age bracket (40-47).  I'd cakewalk you and your posting buddies, Merlin - ain't no vasodilator breaks allowed in Saturday pickup.

Some Guy wrote on Jul 19^th, 2008 at 1:15pm:

Haha!!!  Not bad, George Walker Bush III.  Some evidence of previous ability/experience there.  Hmmmmm.....I feel a a new found thread of respect forming.

Some Guy wrote on Jul 19^th, 2008 at 1:21pm:


Very bold.  It is well known that I have f'n game.  Being a year short of that age bracket I'll spot him a few buckets.  I'll give him the rock first also.  We'll play Hazelwood ghetto style (make it, take it).  Bring the cake I'll walk all over it.

i thought you were more into this...

http://www.theonion.com/content/whitehousewar/johnmccain

Starbuck wrote on Jul 19^th, 2008 at 1:43pm:

Note the release.  He does that in every clip.  Haven't seen anything off the dribble either, despite his decent mobility.  Straight up, low release - its a limitation roughly equal in magnitude to his Second Amendment stance.

I think Obama will become a Democratic president along the lines of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Where have all the good times gone?

Some Guy wrote on Jul 19^th, 2008 at 9:13pm:



http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2249/2008882967_cf1db801f5.jpgv=0

No.  I found it on Flickr.

If Obam wins, it will be good for the country having an athletic president, especially one that is a fan of America's true game.  George Walker Bush III showed some hint of athleticism in Starbuff's vid, but at the end of the day he's still a limp-wristed prep school cheerleader fag.  Clinton is the definition of a fat whitey McSchlub.  The real Bush was probably okay, but Reagan was Hollywood-type spazzed.  Gerald "Snow Bunny" Ford's athletic abilities were the subject of actual comedy.  Nixon - nigga, please.  No one except Joey even knows or cares who the hell LBJ was.  You have to go all the way back to JFK to find an athletic president.  That's a sad commentary on this country, IMGDFO.

robpop wrote on Jul 19^th, 2008 at 9:16pm:



they actually had a blimp. looking at all haze in the arena i thought everyone was just stoned and saw wolfie airborn...........