I've avoided discussing former half-term governors on this blog, simply because some of them get far more attention than they deserve. I can understand why Illinois governor emeritus Rod Blagojevich hogs media attention; he's fortunate to have convinced TV networks to help with his massive legal bills.
That brunette atop this post, however, is another matter. She's not just a teabagger, she's an outright Dominionist, someone who would have the United States transform into the neo-Crusader theocracy depicted in Julian Comstock. It's only a remark she made in her attempt to hijack Rolling Thunder this weekend that prompted me to even mention her (or Blago):
I love that smell of the emissions.Yes, I also loved the smell of those emissions, when they came from my grandfather's well appointed Glastron boat... forty years ago. It was like sniffing glue. By the time I turned seven, I realized that gasoline fumes weren't the best thing to be breathing. Evidently, lady, you never picked up on that. There are way too many of those gas fumes floating around, pumping out way too much carbon; and, like too many on your side of the aisle, you don't care about that any more than Lt. Col. Kilgore worried about napalm in Apocalypse Now.
On the plus side, the whole episode reminded me of a couple of songs that pretty well capture the most recently failed Vice-Presidential candidate. When I first saw this hilarious bit of preening from narcissistic Gaston, the villain in Beauty and the Beast, I knew that the whole movie would be a winner, unlike most of Disney's animated output from the 1990s.
If that described Caribou Barbie so perfectly, I wouldn't have needed this much darker piece from Little Jackie to also describe her. It's not something I usually let anywhere my playlists -- the music is annoying enough without the lyrics -- but it fits too well today to resist. Enjoy.
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