Asstounding

I had a lot of fun going through the Teabonics flikr group (h/t Bo). The misspelled signs are often ironic ("English is our lanaguage, learn it!") and sometimes just amusing. I know, I know. Cheap shots. I'm not such a great speller myself, and there is no spell check on a piece of posterboard.

But before I start feeling guilty about making fun of the educationally challenged, allow me to share this one:

It's not just a problem with the language. It's a problem with the whole concept of America.

Depression

Once I wrote a program
made it run
billed the client for time.
Once I built a network
now it's done.
Brother can you
spare a dime?

SNL - A swing and a miss

Political humor works best when it hits issues people care about. SNL stepped up to the plate last night with an opening bit with Obama, flanked by Pelosi and Reid, promising to pass the Health bill despite it being "terribly unpopular."

The wind-up, the pitch; and it's a slow sinking curve. Pelosi, Obama tells us, is safe at home in San Fran, but Reid could be out thanks to the very, very unpopular bill. Steeeeee-rike!

No one cares whether Harry comes or goes. He's a non-issue compared to the one standing there with a bat: why is the Health Insurance Reform bill, the Democrat's comprehensive legislation on the issue that swept them into the White House and solid majorities in the House and Senate, so deeply, deeply unpopular? it's funny when you think about it.

You can blame the Republican parlimentary procedures, or the Fox news misinformation campaign, or the ranting fringe teabaggers or the effect of insurance lobby money. As though it were a great bill that people would get behind if they only understood what it was about.

That's the pitch they should have swung at. Maybe they would have even hit upon the real reason: voters don't want everyone to have access to health insurance.

We want everyone to have access to health care. Health insurance  is the thing preventing that.

Not Careful

Everyone from Sean Hannity to Jon Stewart was talking about Obama's big presser yesterday. They all got it wrong. They all said it was about Health Care Reform; except for Obama himself of course - he was very careful to call it what it is: Health Insurance Reform.

And therein lies the problem. Or rather, the wrong problem. So please be careful.

When two companies love each other very much

America: the nation where corporations can marry, but gay citizens cannot.