https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKYcMZFhzcc
So we were enjoying some backstairs chatter with SFL about how boring the political news is right now, how the only topic on tap is Cory Booker showing up on Meet the Shill for purposes of objecting to the Obama campaign’s attacks on Bain Capital, how everyone suddenly notices that Cory has some Wall Street backers, and how Cory may be harboring some wee resentment that Barack scored the First Black Preznident trophy instead of him.
On this, the fourth anniversary of our Descent Into Blogging Hell — actually it was yesterday, but we’re declaring it a bank holiday — we choose not to run yet another variation on our first-post Joyride image, but instead offer a montage of Every Joyride Known to Dukes, Except the Final Season, Which Isn’t Included Because the Videographer Loaned Out His DVD Set, But Don’t Let That Stop You.
Title: “I Am A Pole (And So Can You!)”
Author: Stephen Colbert
Rank: 34
Blurb: “The sad thing is, I like it!” —Maurice Sendak
Reader Review Spectacular!
“This book should not be read to children. There is one page that illustrates a stripper humping a pole with only tassels on her nipples.”
“Then I got to the stripper pole, and the quite graphically drawn cartoon stripper right down to the tassels and heart tattoo on the ankle… I can’t imagine how many kids won’t get to read this book because of that page.”
“I was not prepared to discuss strippers with my 4-year-old daughter. This picture book is not for small children.”
When Fresh Air ends, Terry Gross stops being polite, and starts getting real.
“The man in charge of running Arizona’s elections has gone to the birthers. Secretary of State Ken Bennett now says he’s not convinced Barack Obama was really born in the United States and so he is threatening to keep the president off the ballot in November.” [TPM]
Each time we watch this — and we’ve watched it more than a few times — we find ourself focusing on a different region: Germany first, then Russia, then the Ottoman Empire, then Spain, and what’s that happening with the British Isles?
NOJO • Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 @ManchuCandidate: Summer definitely disappeared.
MANCHUCANDIDATE • Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 BTW, has your favorite fundies gone to Ratpure?
MANCHUCANDIDATE • Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 Come on dude shut your mouth. Shut your mouth Never like to hear I take bribes Won't you please…
BURR DEMING • Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 Thank you for this, nojo. He was a wonderful talent and, by all accounts, a wonderful human…
NOJO • Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 Oh, and there’s a Catholic church across the street. Maybe I can do a little dance for them!
NOJO • Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 Now that I’m in NYC, plenty of pigeons to poison in his honor.
NOJO • All the Vice President's Men 2025 update: Nothing happened. And here we are!
MANCHUCANDIDATE • Weeping Angel Imagine going from hope to Fascism in less than two decades enabled by greedy ass (millionaire)…
NOJO • Nightmare at the Museum From the last time he threatened to bomb Iran, 2020. Remember that one? All a misty blur now.
NOJO • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! @ManchuCandidate: I have birthright citizenship in Cascadia, so I think I’m good.