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Ron Washington Makes Requisite Cocaine Apology

19 Friday Mar 2010

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The Age of the Enforced Apology continues.                    

Texas Rangers Manager Ron Washington apologized for testing positive for cocaine last summer.  Our celebrity-obsessed society dictates that what would be an embarrassing episode for a private citizen, must become an excercise in self-flagellation for anyone who appears on television more than twice a year.  This is not only hypocritical and hurtful, but pointless.           

Our sympathies lie with Mr. Washington.  There is this bit of sticky business, however:                    

Washington said that he used the drug one time and it’s the only time he has used cocaine in his life.                    

Wha?  Who tries coke for the first time at 57 years old?  Really–who does that?  Ron, we’re on your side here, but don’t treat us like we’re idiots.                   

Ron Washington is not the only person associated with the Texas Rangers to have grappled with drug issues:                    

Player 2001-2003: Steroids

Player 1992-1994: Steroids & Probably More

Player 2001: Just About Everything

Owner 1989-1994: Alcohol & Cocaine

See If You Accept Ron’s Apology: Washington apologizes for cocaine use | MLB.com: News.               

 Smaktakula

Rhode Island Asshat Hangs President In Effigy

19 Friday Mar 2010

Posted by in Constitutional Issues, Culture, General Foolishness, National Events, National Politics, Politics

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President Obama appears to like George W. Bush’s odious “No Child Left Behind,” a policy which for years now has been ensuring that No Child Gets Ahead.   A name change–“The Elementary And Secondary Education Act”–and a few tweaks, allow the current president to continue to revile the former chief executive while himself continuing those once-reviled policies (see also: Victory in Iraq, Obama and).

One fired Rhode Island teacher was particularly displeased with Obama’s education agenda.   And did this gentleman display his displeasure in a manner which would not only make his point, but do it in a gentle and poignant way, one hopefully which wouldn’t cast those opposed to Obameducation (formerly Bushedjumication) as fringey lunatics?

He did not.  He hanged the President in effigy.

He.  Hanged.  The.  President.  In.  Effigy.  That’s a great way to rally people to your cause– if the people you want to attract wear tinfoil over their heads and obsess about fluoridation.

Nice going, fucknugget.

Kudos to the Washington Post for not mentioning the words “racist” or “hate crime.”  They’ll most likely include them in tomorrow’s edition.

Check out this guy’s dickhead move: Obama effigy hung at RI school with fired teachers – washingtonpost.com.

Smaktakula

Miss Me Yet? And By “Me,” I Mean The Point.

12 Friday Feb 2010

Posted by in Art, Culture, General Foolishness, National Politics, Politics

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By Smaktakula

Most people have seen the image and read the story:      

The Zen Koan Of Our Times

The press quickly revealed that the advertisement was the work of a group of small business people,  apparently in protest against the current administration.  But for the short time the sign’s origins and intent were in doubt, it was possible to debate the greater meaning behind those three words.    

Was Bush, with his snarky grin and cocky stride, supposed to remind us of the divisive eight years that began the century, in effect telling us that things could be worse?  Or as it turned out, was it a snipe at the current administration by invoking time-softened nostalgia for the former president, still widely reviled in many quarters?   The Decider or the Divider?    

Given the polarized nature of political discourse today, it’s likely that many people are in no ways nuanced in their feelings on this issue.  When asked, “Miss Me Yet?” , they will no doubt respond in a loud affirmative or an equally bombastic negative.  But for a smaller group, the question eludes such pat answers.     

By nature, the news media couldn’t let the message speak for itself–or rather, speak to individual interpretation.  A mystery is an irritation for a journalist–a puzzle or riddle to be solved.  This compulsion is by all measures a good thing.   No one who values his or her liberty would have it any other way.  However, the greatest strength of the 4th estate, this need to untie knots, can have unfortunate side effects.  As in this instance, sometimes light kills the magic.    

For just a  short moment, with the curtain down and the inner workings still a mystery, this prosaic amalgamation of metal, paper and ink became something akin to art.  Then, in no time at all, the exotic mystery lifted up her veil and revealed to all the world what she was: plain old politics.   

Too bad.