Tuesday, July 17, 2012

My optimistic cynical dreaming

The best case scenario for the 2012 presidential election seems to be shaping up nicely: Wide swaths of eligible American voters stay home on election day, thumbing their nose at Obama, Romney, and the Republicrat oligarchy of corruption, a number of voters too large for the traditional news media not to acknowledge.

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Here comes the Pete Rose reality show on TLC. Says the Hit King, "It's not going to be classless."

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Recent progress at State College in the movement to reverse the hagiography of Joe Paterno? Penn State still has a varsity football team. Paterno, the late child rapist enabler, still has a statue. Paterno is still depicted on a mural across the street from the school's campus, but the mural artist has removed the halo from above Paterno's head in his painting. Baby steps.

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The internet is ablaze with ideas about what to do with the Paterno statue. My favorite suggestion: Cover it up for 13 years.

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Uma Thurman and her husband Arpad Busson are the proud new parents of a baby girl born on Sunday. Busson is the father of two other children by model Elle Macpherson. That's how you do it.

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