Archive of entries posted on 13th March 2013

In Obama’s Brave New World

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[High Praise! to According to Hoyt]

It might be the first time in history where in a non-occupied country flying the flag is an act of daring that in certain neighborhoods can get you shunned by all your neighbors. It might be the first time in history where teaching the good parts of your history in school is considered an act of defiance, and where the higher-class and all the bien-pensants push distorted histories and documentaries that run down the country that hosts them.

Wisdom of the Day: Jazz Obamacare Pope

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Is America Ready to Elect Someone with a Puffy Face?

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So there is talk of some sort of puffy-faced person maybe running for Senate in Kentucky, but apparently her own party is wary of how puffy her face is and how that will play with the voters. They understand that culturally, we’re not at a place where we’re ready to elect people with puffy faces to high office. Maybe one day that will happen — probably with future generations — but for now people just don’t trust puffy faces. Mitch McConnell knows this and is already working it into ads.

“McConnell 2014: He has a normal face.”

So now the Democrats are desperately trying to find a normal-faced candidate they can coalesce around. And then what happens to puffy face? I don’t know. It’s just not a puffy face world.

Paul Ryan’s Plan Versus Obama’s No Plan

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So Paul Ryan has his plan to balance the budget in ten years. This is versus Obama’s plan to balance the budget in never. In fact, Obama had to send his spokesman out to clarify that calling something the “balanced approach” is just a name. “It’s like if someone is named Rod, you don’t expect him to actually be some sort of cylinder. Similarly, because our plan is called the ‘balanced approach’ doesn’t mean there is any actual sort of balancing… or even that there is an approach to it. It’s mainly just more taxes on the rich for some reason.”

Paul Ryan’s plan, on the other hand, actually involves numbers and stuff and adding. Thus it’s a radically different plan than anything from Obama. In fact, it’s very scary to Democrats. “What’s all these weird squiggles?” the Dems ask. And Paul Ryan is like, “They are numbers. And when they’re in equations like this, it’s called ‘Math.'” And the Dems are like, “No. I don’t like this. Get it away from me. Math isn’t real and it can’t hurt us! You take it away! You take it away now!”

And so far Dems have been wining the argument, but maybe things will change.

Random Thoughts: Balance, Math, and Batman

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I hope they elect a renegade pope who doesn’t play by the rules.

Obama: “If I had a budget, it wouldn’t balance.”

I didn’t realize homeschooling is illegal in so many countries. We take so much of living in a free country for granted.

I thought a bunch of men sitting in a smoke-filled room is how the GOP picks a presidential candidate.

Pitch: Kid Pope

As long as Math keeps demanding extreme, unrealistic cuts to entitlements, no one is going to listen to it.

So instead of a “balanced approach,” Obama’s plan is more of a “never actually balance anything approach.”

Obama’s plan is increased taxes balanced with increased debt. Does he even understand what we’re trying to achieve here?

Banning handguns was a fairly mainstream view not that long ago. Did all those people really recant their positions and apologize?

If I become the GOP’s candidate for president in 2016, I promise to do all the debates in my best Batman voice.

Republicans are making themselves look foolish by acting like it’s possible to repeal a horribly unpopular law.

I’ve never had so much respect for my stupid as I do now seeing it hunt a mouse in our garage.

Need to take an idea for a short ebook I have and adapt it to being a full length print book. Not the worst problem I’ve ever had.