AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT
I found this on the Oklahoma Gazette’s website:

“The synergism resulting from our new organizational structure will strengthen all of our publications and collateral endeavors.”
– Bill Bleakley

Really?
Or, is this a parody of non-speak corportist p.r. hype B.S.?

It’s like he just tossed a bunch of polysyllabic words into a Basalmic fusion salad of almost English.

shut up, he explained

I know Mr. Bleakley and he is a good guy and a very smart guy. Those words never passed through his lips without a sneer or a smirk. And if it’s some p.r. lackey in his employ, then the guy deserves better than this half-hearted effort to say very little.

Really, what the hell does that even mean?

I see that shit too often and it bugs the crap out of me.

Somewhere there’s a website like Apostrophe Abuse or Passive Aggressive Notes that critiques public relations blurbs. Whoever wrote that piece of crap should be made to line up with Joe Wilson and that nutty Dem from Florida and all three of them should apologize to the nation for half ass thinking and speaking.

I keep thinking about that line in Thelma and Louise in which the Susan Sarandon character observes that we all get just about what we’re willing to settle for. Well, bullshit. OK. I’m still going to be settling for something less than all I want if I also want to draw a line in the sand and say, like Martin Luther, here I stand.

I want to be on the side of putting on our thinking caps and stop settling for shitty and require excellence. Let’s all pull up our knickers and put aside our decadent vices and be grownups.

Now, everybody together: how can we make Blogblah’s life better? Forget Franken. He’s already a U.S. Senator and can take care of himself. It’s my turn. All y’all get on board and put on your thinking caps like a good grownup and start the brain working on this millineum’s greatest problem: how can we best please a middle aged man in the middle of America, to wit, yours truely?

Get back to me on that real soon.

Blogblah

An Obama Speech Live Blog by Andrew Sullivan

LiveBlog of speech by Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo

“Progressives” LiveBlog Obama’s speech at Daily Kos

ABC.com LiveBlogs the speech with Twitter Twist

I didn’t bother to watch — I don’t have TV at home now, and I didn’t want to go out — but that doesn’t matter as much as the blogosphere and CW reax in tomorrow’s papers, for which I am not going to wait up. If I have anything of substance to say, I’ll do it after digesting some likely bloated pontificating by pundits of all stripes.

DID TUESDAY MAKE ME LOOK FAT?

Historically Carnival has been a last hurrah before the Christian season of Lent40 days of fasting and penitence beginning on Ash Wednesday. But its roots reach at least as far back as ancient Rome’s Saturnalia, a hedonistic winter celebration of Saturn, god of the harvest.

National Geographic

A Saturnalian Moment in Brazil

I haven’t heard from my son, who lives in New Orleans, about his experiences, but I’ll give him a couple days rest before I make him talk to me on the phone. I did notice a tweet from him about missing the Vieux Crew ball, but I’m not all that sure I want to know what goes on at the Vieux Crew ball. Compared to my children, I’m not nearly as mature. In fact, compared to most people, I may not be that mature, but that’s another matter.

Blogblah

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

ISAAC ASIMOV

I READ THE NEWS TODAY, OH BOY

Minnesota Still Without Senator

Former U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman, R-MN, has strung out last year’s election and is still going and we’re not yet to the appeal level. I don’t think most people believe he has a chance of being successful in this challenge to Al Franken, but that’s not the immediate point. If he strings it out, as he’s done so far, it is one less vote for the next big bill, the budget resolution, universal health care, whatever, and one more Republican that’s needed to break the filibuster deadlock at 60-40 in the U.S. Senate. Meanwhile, his legal position becomes more and more attenuated and ludicrus, as this day’s entry in the soap opera demonstrates.

This is about topical politics, but I’m not linking to any one particular headline, but I must admit to being puzzled by GOP decisions to oppose Obama as a bloc. Let’s take U.S. Rep. Mary Fallin, R-OKC, who voted against the stimulus bill along with her caucus. Trouble is that the stim bill includes beaucoup money for Oklahoma, including a HSR system that will go from Tulsa through Oklahoma City down to Dallas and from there to either San Antonio or Houston. Seems like this will create 100s of Oklahoma jobs and pour millions into the local economy. Unemployment is rising and those with jobs are crazy afraid and she votes against funding unemployment checks? She voted against a tax cut for 97.36% of her constituents? What’s next? Put Tinker up for closing? What the hell is she thinking? I mean, really? (The link in this paragraph will take you to her constituent access page where you can send her an email asking such questions, if you’d like)

Chairman of the Bored