Archive for October 12, 2007

Con-servative bling

Things I Learn From Fox News:

Wearing a $5 American flag lapel pin is the highest form of patriotism.
Winning the Nobel Peace Prize is a meaningless political sham.

Hunter at Daily Kos

I’ve been waiting for you, Obi-wan. We meet again at last.

Buggs’ Blog has three great photos from Thursday night’s Balloon Fiesta glow — including the Darth Vader balloon.

While I was out

… driving around, I was thinking a little about Al Gore.

You remember the reaction when Gore sighed during one of the 2000 presidential debates after Bush had said something particularly ignorant? I got to thinking that if instead of sighing — if in fact Gore did sigh — and if in fact sighing is a sign of elitism — Gore might better have said to Bush, “You stupid son-of-a-bitch.”

If he had, I think Gore could have taken the popular vote by more than 500,000.

Oh, wait. Gore did take the popular vote by more than 500,000.

Best line of the day, so far

“for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change”

Nobel Peace Prize 2007

Best line of the day, so far

Al Gore has an Emmy, an Oscar and the Nobel Peace Prize and all my country got was George W. Bush.