Bush, in describing Cindy Sheehan, stated, “She expressed her opinion. I disagree with it.”
This puts Cindy Sheehan in the company of military experts who told Bush things he didn’t want to hear prior to the attack on Iraq. Experts who turned out to be correct.
PAD
Kath and I just came back from seeing “The Aristrocrats,” a documentary about a legendary dirty joke that’s been around for ages and–until now–has been purely a comedian-to-comedian thing.
The premise is simple. A guy walks into a talent agency and says to the talent agent, “My family has the most amazing act you’ve ever seen.” From that moment on, it’s pure improv as the comedian proceeds to describe the most hideously profane act he can think of, replete with fornication, bodily secretions and excretion, incest…whatever. At the end, the stunned agent says, “That’s quite an act. What do you call it?” And the guy says proudly, “The Aristocrats!”
No one makes any attempt to say that the joke, in and of itself, is funny. It’s not. But it’s the telling of it, the total insanity of the contrast between the grossness of the act and the sophistication of the name, that’s the killer.
High points include a specially done “South Park” version with Cartman telling it to an increasingly horrified Stan, Kyle and Kenny; a magician who seamlessly melds the joke with a card trick presentation; Gilbert Gottfried absolutely killing with a version told during the Comedy Central roast of Hugh Hefner…and, my personal favorite, Tommy Smothers telling the joke to Ðìçk Smothers, who has never heard it and hasn’t a clue why anyone would remotely consider it funny. It occurs to me that–with no comment on the gentlemen’s mental capacities, but rather simply on their “stage” personas–that if Joe Quesada told the Aristrocrats to Paul Levitz, they would be exactly like Tom and Ðìçk Smothers.
PAD
You know, it always causes me giggles when Christians complain of how ill-used and oppressed Christianity is in this country. Because, y’know, having the only religion for which government shuts down on your major holidays isn’t enough due diligence. Still, it can’t help the perception of your faith when your major spokesmen in this country are áššhølëš. Kind of skews perceptions of you. Consider Pat Robertson, bastion of Christian charity, advocating the covert assassination of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez.
Oh yeah. I seem to recall, from my limited familiarity with the New Testament, that Jesus advocated such thinking. Right between “Love thy neighbor” and “The meek shall inherit the Earth,” he espoused,
“We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability.”
I can understand why Pat Robertson is such a prominent religious figure. Every time the guy opens his mouth, people say, “Chriiiiiiist.”
PAD
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