Passionate Apathy - by Francis

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Passionate Apathy - April 2007

Imus Be Dreaming

April 11th 2007 23:34

Stop the presses!! A veritable army of media hounds have converged on the latest Story of the Day- that one story that dominates every newscast, that the whole industry is holding under a tunneling-electron microscope.

The story today (and tomorrow, and tomorrow...) is that a radio shock jock actually said something stupid and offensive. And in other breaking news, the Sun is hot.

Didn't we just do something similar with Ann Coulter, when someone went off the deep end over her doing exactly what she's been doing every day for fricking years? I'm certainly not condoning what these ~~wastes of skin~~ people have been saying, but as offensive as they are, how is it suddenly news?

Free Clue of the Day: They're not called "shock jocks" because of the substandard insulation on their equipment (though that would explain a lot!).

When I don't want to get wet, I don't go swimming. When I prefer my hand to not swell up, I don't stick it in a wasps' nest. I can do very well without the idiocy and bile these talk radio types waste bandwidth on- that's why all my radio presets are for music.

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Dumbed to Repeat It

April 10th 2007 23:27

President Bush has been giving speeches in which he tries a different tactic to excuse his Iraq fiasco: He pointed out how after World War II we kept troops in Germany and Japan, and look! Now those former enemies are friendly allies and trading partners and so forth.

Of course, fifty years ago Germany and Japan were both eager to get their economy rebuilt- there was no civil war, and no 'insurgents' destroying the rebuilding efforts. It also helped that the Administration of long past actually had a plan for what to do after the war (Google "Marshall Plan").

A little knowledge is a surreal thing. Thing is, the big picture can get complex and intricate- and worse, doesn't always support the Bush plan that we just topple Saddam's government and everything turns into roses. That is the cardinal rule of the current administration: The only 'facts' allowed into the White House are those that fit the President's pre-conceived world-view.
After all, is it really worth risking losing one's job to give the Leader of the Free World accurate, reliable intelligence?

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The Naked, Smoking Gun

April 5th 2007 23:36

Hirings and firings go on all the time in any large company. When eight U.S. Attorneys were let go by the Justice Department, there was no reason to expect anything untoward there- except, of course, the e-mails that were saved detailing how the White House wanted to get rid of them for political, rather than professional, reasons.

The one question not even Congress has yet brought up is that why are the top people at the Justice Department so insanely incompetent/clueless? Do they truly have no concept of what "evidence" is? "Yeah, lets keep these e-mails that show the attorneys were fired for being insufficiently Republican- no way they can come around and bite us..."

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Tug of War

April 3rd 2007 23:46

President Bush is still trying to get used to the fact that his old lapdog Congress has been voted out. The new Congress is blowing his mind with their new-fangled "checks and balances" on his Presidential powers. The latest audacity is that they want to actually attach accountability for the war funds they're still approving.

Bush has of course already promised to veto any bill that doesn't give him his way all the way. This morning on CNN I saw him castigating Congress, talking about how the troops will suffer if they don't get funded. Now while the President has every right to veto legislation ~~Karl Rove~~ he doesn't like, he's getting too weaselly in blaming Congress: They did send him a war-spending bill, but Bush vetoed it

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