Patrons of the Absurd

So the Chinese are admitting you can't actually see their Great Wall from outer space. Since the government doesn't want to perpetuate that myth anymore, they're taking it right out of their elementary school textbooks. Wonder if they plan to do the same for that whole Maoism/communism thing.

I'm a big fan of tribute bands, having been introduced by Barrucca to 80s rockers Metal Shop. Now comes Li'l G'NR, which claims to be the "first ever Guns 'n' Roses kids tribute band." Be sure not to miss the audition video.

Dick Morris thinks that George W. Bush can annihilate John Kerry in November by painting Kerry as a liberal extremist who is soft on Terror. How should Bush do this? Morris proposes three tactics.

1. Go negative and attack, attack, attack: "There are likely those in the White House who are urging Bush to run positive ads. That won't work."

2. Get voters to ignore the sad state of the economy by frightening them about terrorism: "He needs to elevate the sense of threat so that his advantage as a war president begins to count."

3. Pull US troops out of Iraq: "President Johnson kept the troops in Vietnam and lost. President Nixon was withdrawing them, and he won."

The utter contempt this viewpoint shows for the judgment and intellect of the American people is just appalling.

But perhaps I am going a bit overboard. Dick Morris is the same genius who told Bill O'Reilly back in January that Howard Dean was unstoppable and that Al Sharpton could win South Carolina.

"His pants could have been down because he was mooning a car he was drag racing," Platt said. "His pants could have been down because he was urinating out of a window. His pants could have been down because he wasn't feeling well."

Oh, well then, case closed.

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