Bomb Throwing Pacifist
If you took that happy, smiling guy from the box of Quaker Oats, handed him a bottle of gin and a rifle, and pissed him off to a point where he decided he wasn't going to take it anymore, you'd get a little something like this.
Friday, June 16, 2006
Mmmm...human flesh
3-Year-Old's Birthday Party Theme: 'NewsHour'
I don't know which is sadder...the fact that another young American has been turned into a mindless TV-watching zombie, or that it took the forces of good (PBS) three years of constant exposure to achieve results easily duplicated by the forces of evil (Fox news) in three simple 1-hour sittings. Although it could be worse. All Henry Schally's tv-related impulses were confined to having party hats made with the likness of Jim Lehrer. If it had been a Fox drone, he'd either be sacrificing kittens to Cthulu or stabbing his parents with an O'Reilly-autographed falafel.
When a young St. Paul boy got to pick the theme for his third birthday party, he didn't pick Nemo or the Wiggles or Dora the Explorer. He didn't even pick his favorite sports team. Henry Schally picked "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer."
I don't know which is sadder...the fact that another young American has been turned into a mindless TV-watching zombie, or that it took the forces of good (PBS) three years of constant exposure to achieve results easily duplicated by the forces of evil (Fox news) in three simple 1-hour sittings. Although it could be worse. All Henry Schally's tv-related impulses were confined to having party hats made with the likness of Jim Lehrer. If it had been a Fox drone, he'd either be sacrificing kittens to Cthulu or stabbing his parents with an O'Reilly-autographed falafel.
Marc with a C, 4:24 PM
