And by the way, that ain’t a moonshadow following you, Yusuf. See ya’. Enjoy the falafels.
September 22, 2004
September 22, 2004
My very brief conversation with the state of New Jersey, September 22
Me: “So. Latest Quininppiac poll has Bush pulling even with Kerry at 48 in your state, traditionally a Democratic stronghold. What gives?” New Jersey: “That’s a good question. I’m not completely sure, to be honest—though I can offer a couple of guesses if you’d like.” Me: “Please. You’re the expert.” New Jersey: “Well, first, I suspect a lot of people in New Jersey are beginning to understand that the prospect
September 22, 2004
A Poem from 1968, Revised by the Ghost of Richard Brautigan, 2004 (twenty-fourth in a series)
Hey, Bacon! The moon like: mischievous bacon crisps its desire (while) I harbor myself Michael Moore harbors himself toward two a half-dozen eggs over easy [and a drum of butterscotch syrup — which he rolls around in like a hog in edible sty mud.]
September 22, 2004
If instead of a pampered heiress Teresa Heinz Kerry were the inner foil wrapper to a piece of Wrigley’s spearmint gum
THK: “I may only be the inner foil wrapper to a piece of Wrigley’s spearmint gum, but I am the most piquant and powerful inner foil wrapper to a piece of Wrigley’s spearmint gum in the entire known universe!”
September 22, 2004
The Devil’s Own
In what he probably views as a brave piece in today’s Newsday, Mediachannel.org editor Danny Schechter uses his powers of divination to explain how a tiny little non-event like the CBS forged document story got blown up into a huge media scandal via some carefully orchestrated plot by a cabal of right-wing hitmen, the goal of which was to destroy uberpatriot (and unimpeachable source) Dan Rather. Writes Schechter: “CBS’s most