1. The best thing about Friday is that it's only 24 hours to a new episode of "Animal Nuz!"
2. A Mr. William Saletan of Slate.com opined the other day that President Obama was taking a great risk in criticizing the Republicans for the government shutdown. According to Mr. Saletan, the President's harsh condemnation of the Republicans runs the risk of antagonizing "moderate Republicans" (my quotation marks) and driving them into the hands of the tea party extremists. Could someone please let Mr. Saletan know that there are no moderate republicans and that there hasn't been any since Millicent Fenwick departed for heaven to smoke her pipe with God? (Who we all know is dead, but that's another post). Certainly there are no republicans with a spine, the least bit of political courage, or a drop of basic human decency. I say "Give 'Em Hell, Barack!" You might not be able to see them, but Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, and FDR are standing behind you urging you on. It's time to call a spade a spade and if the spades be a bunch of lick-spittle bible-banging trailer trash, and the guy calling them out is a Harvard-educated U.S. President, well ain't that just another star in the flag of the United States of Irony.
3. All this fuss about Congressional and federal employee health care--doesn't it just show that the only fair way to insure all Americans is with a single-payer system?
4. Nancy Pelosi complained today that the Republicans "can't negotiate with themselfes." Here then is my Top Ten List of Things Republicans Can Do With Themselves.
10. Sell
9. Obstruct
8. Defeat
7. Pollute
6. Repeat
5. Defeat
4. Play
3. Expose
2. Kill
1. F**K!