And just like the immortal Doug Sahm (Sir Douglas Quintet), in the opening of his 1967 hit "Mendocino", he wants to thank all the Beautiful People for all the Beautiful Vibrations. He Loves You.
I am still not sure why Sahm left San Antonio for Northern California, but hey it was the sixties! And he eventually found his way back home to make great music with the Texas Tornadoes, who also featured ex- SDQ partner Augie Myer, Conjunto superstar Flaco Jimenez and the great Mexican American doo wop singer Freddy Fender.
Unfortunately, both Sahm and Myer have since passed from the scene, but they will live on forever in Donkeytale's CD changer.
The reason for Donkeytale's hiatus was business related, and not as widely speculated, because he was disillusioned with the rampant (and utterly deflating) sense of herd mentality and groupthink displayed so vividly every day on the Daily Kos, your liberal democrat online crying towel.
Previously, as his few readers know, Donkeytale attempted to break through the politically correct clap trap, variously by taking on the millions of kossacks who keep blaming bigotted Southerners for the demise of the Democratic Party, and by propounding the Oregon system of voting only by mail as the solution to voter disenfranchisement.
The fact that Vote Only By Mail also clearly favors Democrats was also regularly noted. The fact that Kossacks by and large reject VOBM, and often because THEY DONT WANT a clear electoral advantage (that would be acting like the Rebumblicans, so the liberal reasoning goes)really had nothing to do with Donkeytale's hiatus, either.
Actually, Donkeytale saw himself as the DKOS Andy Borowitz, the satirist often featured in the New Yorker and on CNN, and he soon realized that Kossacks by and large don't appreciate or understand satirical humor, especially when it is aimed squarely at them.
In fact, Donkeytale went so far as to have his nose enlarged, and a big hook added to it, just like his hero Borowitz.
Unfortunately, no one found this change in his appearance stimulating except Donkeytale's wife, who subsequently urged him to write an article about the delights of Probiscus Sexuality.
Because he always listens to his wife, Donkeytale wrote the article, submitted it, and you now soon will be able to read all about the hidden delights of Nose Sex in the May 2005 edition of Cosmopolitan.
Yes, Donkeytale has been reformed, and he is not afraid to admit it to you. You have beaten him into submission (actually, it is his wife who has beaten him into submission, but you can't expect him to blame her publicly, can you?).
I hereby pledge in the future to conform to all community standards, take stands only as agreed upon by the community at large, and begin to work as hard as I can to keep the Democratic Party forever in its current state of mediocrity and mired in last place in the Electoral League.
After all, everybody knows the Daily Kos can only exist as long as the Dems remain losers. Believe Donkeytale when he tells you it is lonely at the top.
Herewith, a few observations for Sunday Discussion. (Turn off the Sunday talk shows and get busy with DT):
Death of Pope JP II-- Actually, Donkeytale was present along the Boylston Street parade route when Il Papa made his first appearance in the US, back in 1981. The fact that Donkeytale lived in the Back Bay and was merely walking home from work (skeleton crew volunteer-- Pope Day was a holiday in Boston)doesnt detract from the fact that he saw Il Papa in all his pre-assassination attempt glory: sitting atop the back seat of a vintage cadillac convertible, waiving to the crowd in his Borsolino hat and actually looking like he was alive. He was only in his sixties at the time.
While Donkeytale is Roman Catholic, he does not have a vote in the selection of a successor. But lets hope the College of Cardinals are more adept at Pope picking than the St. Louis Cardinals are at World Series winning, and decide once and for all to select a Pope from the third world, and one who doesnt display any outward signs of ossification even before he dons the regal conehead.
Do we really need the Pope to always be a weary, constant reminder of the complete exhaustion of western civilization? Just asking...
Death of Teri Schiavo-- Donkeytale's previous living will had only two provisions: 1. Take him off life support immediately 2. Bury him face down so the whole world can kiss his ass.
But after watching this heartrending drama unfold endlessly on the Fox News Channel, Donkeytale has revised his living will as follows: 1. Keep him on life support at least until he bankrupts his wife and immediate family 2. Plaster his brain dead, drooling visage all over cable news for all the world to see 3. Make sure all the right wing wackos from Randall Terry to the Rebumblican Congress to the Rebumblican president take up the cause to keep his drooling visage alive for all to be revolted by on FNC 4. When the plug is finally pulled, bury him face down, but first, bare his ass and turn him face down for the wake, so it will be that much easier for his close friends and family to kiss his ass.
Ciao.