I Can't Resist a Well-Turned Phrase
Today's sensation wraps tomorrow's fish. But not if there's a little sex. Sex has legs. ...sex, though capable of endlessly complicating everything else, is uncomplicated in a way that continuing stories — what kind of government we will leave in Iraq, a presidential race with two flawed candidates, ...[aren't] ...Looking at photographs of naked men on a leash held by a bumpkinette in tight jeans, ... or writhing pyramids of naked men, doesn't require an inquiring mind. This is the stuff of National Enquirer, or as John O'Sullivan describes it in National Review Online, "Jerry Springer meets Saddam Hussein." ...There's considerable evidence, and evidence growing by the day, that the readers and viewers of flyover land understand what we do not. The public-opinion polls have quieted the fever to cashier Donald Rumsfeld; indeed, The Washington Post, which commissioned one of the early ones, no doubt wants its money back. The result it got was news fit only for Page 12, revealing that 7 of 10 Americans thought the idea of the president's firing Mr. Rumsfeld, the man in charge of prosecuting the war on terror, as something so wrongheaded as to be nutty. Sane, mature Americans regard civilization in peril as more worrisome than an Iraqi terrorist forced to wear a pair of ladies' step-ins on his head, unsavory as that could be.
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