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Dispatch from THE GREAT STATE OF MAINE. . .
Cheers and Jeers for Wednesday, January 14, 2004
CHEERS to Howard Dean. Whoooo! We did it, baby! DC win's in the bag. Next stop: Pennsylvania Avenue! (P.S. That Rolling Stone cover is dreamy).
JEERS to George W. Bush. Divider-in-Chief to unveil $1.5 billion "healthy marriage" initiative. Just what we need: the party of Neil "I never paid for those whores and it wasn't gonorrhea it was herpes" Bush telling us how to fulfill our vows. Newt "Too bad about the cancer, Honey, I'm leaving you for another woman" Gingrich to serve as honorary chairman?
CHEERS to Jimmy Carter. Nobel Prize winner and all-around good guy to formally support Howard Dean on Sunday. One more step toward party unity against Bush? Dear god, I hope so.
CHEERS to Blackwell's 44th annual Best/Worst Dressed list. Personally I don't give a rat's p'tooty (strange, my spellchecker doesn't like that word) about women's fashion. But this may be the last for ailing 80-something designer and his yearly puff piece. No matter what happens, we'll always have Paris.
CHEERS to John Kerry. Now tied with Gephardt in Iowa, gets bump in NH. The old boy may have legs after all.
JEERS to my own legs. Walked to work in -26 wind chill two hours ago and I still can't feel `em. Boy, will I tell this "In my day...!" story ad nauseum when I hit the nursing home. Apologies in advance.
CHEERS to Al Franken. Accepts radio gig on new progressive radio network. If his deliberate, nasal delivery plays well on the wireless, this thing's gonna be a hoot. You're good enough and smart enough to go for the right-wing jugular, Al...and doggone it, I hope millions of listeners like you.
JEERS to Paul O'Neill. This guy's backpedaling so hard it's almost slowing Earth's orbit. C'mon, sir, no one likes a wishy washy whistleblower. Maybe Joe Wilson can loan you his spine for a few weeks.
JEERS to gay marriage rhetoric. Right-wingers call campaign against upcoming California measure "The Battle of the Century." Oh really? And what did Arnold think when you told him to put this above state's fiscal meltdown, poverty, and crime?
CHEERS to Internet geeks. New study by World Internet Project shows that the typical Internet user reads books, socializes with others, and shuns TV. But I'm not ready to jettison my pocket protector and Coke-bottle glasses just yet, thank you.
What are you cheering and jeering about today?
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