Posted by TFG on 30th December 2006
I’m sorry, but it’s absolutely ridiculous that financial markets and government services are being shut down in observance of Gerald Ford’s funeral.
Yeah, we wouldn’t want anyone to slow down and reflect on what the hell America was, is, can be, while we plant one of 43. Better to be swapping sow belly futures and delivering sheafs of pizza coupons and another offer for mortgage insurance to their bulk-rate one-stop waystation to the trashcan.
Trust me on this one, Jeff — Howard Stern will still be on your satellite doing titty jokes, Amanda Congdon will still be in your internet tubes doing your titty shows, and approximately 240MM Americans won’t even realize that one of forty-three is now dust.
I think my position on this probably makes me a conservative hack, but then, I still pull over to the side of the road for any funeral procession I chance upon, whether I know who it is or not.
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Posted by TFG on 30th December 2006
“If it’s guff you’re gonna talk, you can go talk it to the Devil.”
Post-hockey game surfing tells me that Saddam Hussein has departed this earth, courtesy of the hangman. I guess there’s something humane and reasonable and good for all of humanity in him getting his day in court, but it was fairly pointless to me. He’s the kind of guy who would have better served the world by catching a stray .45 FMJ in the cranium while crouching in his septic tank/spider hole.
Weird old week for the Grim Reaper — James Brown, Gerald Ford, and Saddam Hussein. If I were Death, I’d just want to go home, take a long shower, and have a big old bourbon rocks in front of some crappy action movie after that trio.
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