Is Howard Dean the missing member of Guns N Roses? I just stopped by DeanGoesNuts.com where Dean’s recent primal scream is set to a number of different songs. Most of them aren’t bad, but check out the one where Dean’s naming of the states is set to GNR’s Welcome to the Jungle. The timing between the two is so accurate, it’s spooky.
Month: January 2004
A dire public health warning
During the war, I smoked the occasional cigarette. They were all around, they’re a pleasant diversion, and when you don’t shower for 37 days straight you don’t worry too much about the smell it leaves behind on your clothing. But then a warning on a carton of British cigarettes told me I should mend my ways…
…and I never smoked again.
Well, except for cigars. They don’t count.
Captain Kangaroo, RIP
I used to watch him a bit when I was a wee one. Only problem with this pic is it looks like he was thinking about cooking the bunny up Tuscan style for dinner.
“Kids, does that sound tasty to you? It sure does to me!”
Don’t Count Dean Out (And Billy Idol)
Speaking of Howard Dean, Jeff Miller posted a hilarious parody of a Billy Idol song based upon Dean’s primal scream. That being said, I’m gonna stand by my previous comments that Dean is the guy to beat in the dem. primaries. Clark is a close second.
Yeah, I know, conventional political pundits are counting these two out right now, and I think this is a mistake. Dean and Clark are the only two major candidates who realize that the traditional dem base is not gonna get them elected. So they’re trying to reach into other constituencies. There’s gonna be some rough sailing in so doing, as we’ve seen this past week, but given the media’s short attention span, it isn’t the end of the world.
Dean put a pretty good spin on things yesterday when he was on Letterman. His Arnie impersonation was excellent. His primal scream will likely make him a stronger candidate once this blows over since it, to a certain extent, immunizes him from future criticism for his over-the-top behavior much like the Gennifer Flowers situation immunized Slick Willie from the Monica Lew[d]insky affair. It is also the wakeup call the Dean people needed to tone their guy down. We’re now seeing Dean 2.0, namely, the balanced-budget and quasi-libertarian Dean.
Hopefully, Kerry and Edwards will stay in the game with Clark and Dean long enough to insure a badly damaged dem candidate in the fall election.
Fr. Johansen comments on the
Fr. Johansen comments on the march for life and decries both political parties (validly, I think) for their either overt or de facto support of the culture of death. I agree with him that the president’s absence from the march was troubling. I know the man can’t be everywhere, but this does not seem to me to be the event to which he should “phone it in.” I don’t know where he was, but it’s not where I would have had him be, and this holding-at-arm’s-length is not encouraging.
This is encouraging: the vanguard of the pro-life movement seems to be the under-30s. Let us hope and pray for a social revolution.