Due in large part (I understand) to the nearly illiterate communications skills of Paris Hilton (someone called her "Perez" Hilton in an email to me the other day...as in Simon Perez? Scarey), many young people, on the MySpace, Facebook and Twitter sites call many people their "BFF"s. This ostensibly means "Best Friend Forever". While an endearing term (in the moment, anyway), logically speaking, this condition is both probably and literally impossible.
By now I am certain that everyone knows the embarrassing and scandalous plight of Sen. John Ensign (R-NV), a now-disgraced member of congress who was, while for sometime being separated from his wife, had an long running affair with an employee, who was the wife of another employee... and also during that same time employeed the woman's 19 year-old son as a policy "consultant", all of this done with public funds and while he was an elected representative of the people of Nevada. The Senator can truly multi-task.
Senator Ensign is a member of the extremely conservative Four Square pentecostal church, a sworn member of Promise Keepers ("marriage is sacred and sancrosanct")and has (as we now can know) loudly and hypocritically protested the "immoral" and "despicable" behaviors of Bill Clinton and Sens. Craig and Vitter (Bill Maher has pointed out that during his campaign, the Senator refused to be alone in a car with another woman [not his wife], for appearance sakes, but apparently being "in" another woman without a car was acceptable behavior. Go figure) . He "came out" only after the husband of the "in flagrante" woman in question threatened both public exposure and extortion. The Senator has betrayed himself, his church, his matrimonial fraternity, his wife and his constituents.
In my book (Face,Place, Space or otherwise) this makes Sen. Ensign a "MMF", or "Miserable MotherFu@#er", of which he is quite literally both.
Vindications of the Senator are no doubt about to be forthcoming from Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly, and "MMF" works well in the abbreviated text of Twitter.
Have a nice day... with your neighbor's wife.
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Friday, June 19, 2009
Inharmonious
Both Paul Krugman (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/19/opinion/19krugman.html?_r=1&th&emc=th)
this morning in the NYT, and Robert Reich (http://robertreich.blogspot.com/)
in his blog posted on 6/18, indicate that they are not happy with the compromise and short-sighted nature of Obama’s proposals for over-hauling the economy and our financial policies. They both indicate that the proposal is not real reform or even anything like it. The news reports on NPR (npr.org) and other articles in the NYT and the WaPo would seem to express the same disappointment. I would like to hear what both Galbraith and Greider have to say, but I have not found anything yet this morning. My first guess is that they would both concur with Krugman and Reich, and that Grieder will be much more pessimistic and critical. And I am willing to bet that Bill Maher (Real Time, HBO, Fri. nite, 10:00 P.M.EST) will have grand time with this debacle tonight.
David Sirota has a piece in Truthdig this morning (http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090618_daring_to_dream/) and I have entered a long comment there, about governmental small thinking, semantics ( you cannot literally “re-invent” anything) and the fact that if we do not come up with some new ideas, new solutions and new approaches to the challenges of the modern world, we will be constrained to remain Neanderthals, waiting for the return of the ice age of human ideological survival. That age will be financed, of course, by Lehman Bros. and have really piss poor health care.
Happy Juneteenth.
this morning in the NYT, and Robert Reich (http://robertreich.blogspot.com/)
in his blog posted on 6/18, indicate that they are not happy with the compromise and short-sighted nature of Obama’s proposals for over-hauling the economy and our financial policies. They both indicate that the proposal is not real reform or even anything like it. The news reports on NPR (npr.org) and other articles in the NYT and the WaPo would seem to express the same disappointment. I would like to hear what both Galbraith and Greider have to say, but I have not found anything yet this morning. My first guess is that they would both concur with Krugman and Reich, and that Grieder will be much more pessimistic and critical. And I am willing to bet that Bill Maher (Real Time, HBO, Fri. nite, 10:00 P.M.EST) will have grand time with this debacle tonight.
David Sirota has a piece in Truthdig this morning (http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090618_daring_to_dream/) and I have entered a long comment there, about governmental small thinking, semantics ( you cannot literally “re-invent” anything) and the fact that if we do not come up with some new ideas, new solutions and new approaches to the challenges of the modern world, we will be constrained to remain Neanderthals, waiting for the return of the ice age of human ideological survival. That age will be financed, of course, by Lehman Bros. and have really piss poor health care.
Happy Juneteenth.
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