[High Praise! to Jimmy]
Just when I was saying how hard it is to find an entire site full of delights, Jimmy makes me a liar by sending in a link to The Looking Spoon
Something new every day, although not always strictly PG-13.
I kinda like this one:
Root around over there. Plenty more to enjoy.
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WASHINGTON (AP) – Emotions continue to run high after Jon McNaughton, a controversial artist who often mixes religion and politics in his work, released a new painting depicting President Obama reading the Constitution.
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Entitled “One Nation Under Law”, the portrait shows the President thoughtfully contemplating the wisdom of the limits the Founders placed on the powers of his office.
Jerry Saltz, an art critic for New York Magazine, Saltz said that the painting contained “bad academic derivative realism,” calling it “typical propaganda art, drop-dead obvious in message” and describing it as “close to the hate images produced in the Jim Crow era.”
Obama campaign adviser David Axelod called it “degrading and racist.”
“This painting suggests that the President is subservient,” said Axelrod, “and must not act without written permission. It’s just another example of the extreme right-wing wagging a finger in the face of this country’s first African-American President, warning him not to get too ‘uppity.’ It’s saying that a black man should know his place, and that he’s subject to the rules of white men who owned slaves. It should have been titled ‘Uncle Tom Gets a Whipping'”
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said it was “just an extension of the deranged birther accusations.”
“Here we have a President,” groused Reid, “holding what appears to be a poorly-reproduced short-form copy of the Constitution, instead of the original long-form document. Not the least bit subtle, is it? It’s the sort of blatant misrepresentation we’ve come to expect from these extremists.”
DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Shultz said she was “mortified and offended” at the message the image sends.
“There should always be limits on power,” said Schultz, “and if the pen is mightier than the sword, then the paintbrush is an assault rifle, just like the ones banned by the Second Amendment. Coercive power like that needs to be tightly controlled with checks and balances.”
* ETCH-A-SKETCH!!!!
So a Romney spokesman refers to the Romney campaign as an Etch-a-Sketch that will be reset come the general, and it’s pretty much the biggest thing ever. People have been saying for a while that Romney has no principles, and now one of his own spokesman has come up with the perfect metaphor.
BTW, if you’re in a need of a spokesman and are on a budget, I’m guessing Eric Fehrnstrom will be pretty cheap in the near future.
Now, generally what was stated is common knowledge — you run one campaign in the primary and another in the general. The only problem is it’s seems like Romney has already been running a general election campaign in the primary with no hard right positions… but his general election campaign is going to be even squishier? Maybe a better metaphor for Romney then would be the blobfish.
And I would like to go on record as saying the Etch-a-Sketch sucks. It’s really hard to draw with. I never got why it was popular. The only thing I liked about it was the shaking, but as for shaking, many other things are more fun like bags of cats.
* You love gas prices lately? Thank Energy Secretary Steven Chu who takes all the credit, giving himself an A on controlling gas prices.
So do you think the Obama administration has any idea what’s going on? Best I can figure, they spend most of the day stoned out of their mind and watching Family Guy reruns. That’s the absolute best explanation I can come up with for their behavior.
* Apparently many Marines don’t like President Obama. Whaaaat?! My world has been turned topsy turvy. Why wouldn’t Marines love a useless, condescending twit? We all love him; what’s wrong with them?
* John Hawkins of Right Wing News list both SarahK and I as top follows on Twitter. I know there are a few people left who aren’t on Twitter, but you should consider following me and my wife if you like humor and witty observations throughout the day. If you don’t like that, continue reading this blog which I’m trying to make as devoid of humor possible (except Harvey keeps getting in the way).
* Wisdom of the Day from MJ:
Guns don’t kill people, the shark-launching catapult you build during the 3-day waiting period to acquire your gun does.
Someone should set up a fact checker checker that rates the truthfulness of media fact checkers.
Movie pitch: Etch-a-Sketch Man – Man gets complete amnesia and has to start his life over any time he’s shaken. Not sure who I’d cast as the lead for that. Who’s the modern day equivalent of Jim Carrey?
BREAKING: Romney spokesman backtracking; says Romney is more like the Wooly Willy toy where you give the guy a magnet beard.
“Maybe ‘Etch-a-Sketch’ wasn’t the right term. What I’m trying to say is that Romney is a formless lump of clay that can easily be remolded.”
BREAKING: Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom has been shaken to death.
He really was talking about the campaign, not Romney, but Romney as an Etch-a-Sketch is funny and apropos.
Draw Something is fun. More fun than an Etch-a-Sketch.
If you want to play me on Draw Something, I think you can look me up by my blog email.
