If you have read my previous posts you know by now that I like to fiddle with people’s names and find interesting word combinations from the letters contained in them. I think I picked this up from years of reading Dave Barry. Some time ago, he wrote about an Olympic scandal involving a figure skating judge and pointed out that the letters of this judge’s name could be rearranged to spell ‘an eerie groin legume’. He went on to imagine that An Eerie Groin Legume would make a good name for a rock band. I must admit that I am a little surprised that there isn’t a rock band with that name, but it has been some time since I have followed rock bands with much interest. I once mentioned to a co-worker that I am a big fan of Weird Al Yankovic, to which he informed me that Dog Fashion Disco was way better than Weird Al. I guess everyone is entitled to their opinion, but his is brain-dead. Maybe it is a matter of old dogs and new tricks.
While I was reading Dave and listening to Al, I got a visit from my friend Abner Mality (not this person’s real name but it should be) and he was in a lather over politics, not an unusual condition in which to find Abner. He told me, ‘lately I’ve been listening to that Sean Hamnutty character (you know the one I mean) on the radio when I drive home from work. It is getting to be more and more just a steady drum-beat of support for President Tweety Bird.” I said that yes, I had noticed too that there seems to be a common thread running through his broadcasts as well as those of Rush Limpblog and others. There is one notable exception among conservative leaning pundits, let’s call him Benn Gleck, who at least seems to have the backbone to call out ‘Babble-On the Great’ about his pronouncements and policies.
Anyway, I offered that I wasn’t sure which was more debilitating, the Trump Derangement Syndrome on the left, or the Trump Sycophantic Syndrome on the right. Guys like Hamnutty continue to go on ad nauseum about how this joker can do no wrong and it is a bit mind numbing to listen to his show as he drones on and on with predictable sameness: “HILARY BOUGHT AND PAID FOR DOSSIER blah blah blah, drone drone drone, drum drum drum and IT WAS NEVER CORROBORATED drone drone drone, blah blah blah drum drum drum, SALACIOUS AND UNVERIFIED drum drum drum, drone drone drone, blah blah blah and USED BLEACH-BIT TO ACID-WASH THE HARD DRIVE drone drone drone, drum drum drum, blah blah blah and TOOK A HAMMER TO HER BLACKBERRY blah blah blah, drum drum drum, drone drone drone and RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA drone drone drone, blah blah blah, drum drum drum and COLLUSION DELUSION blah blah blah, drum drum drum, drone drone drone and COLLUSION ISN’T A CRIME drum drum drum, drone drone drone, blah blah blah and NEVER TOLD HIM HE WAS BEING INVESTIGATED drone drone drone, drum drum drum, blah blah blah and THOSE FBI LOVEBIRDS PETER STRZOK AND LISA PAGE blah blah blah, drum drum drum, drone drone drone and PHONEY FISA WARRANT drum drum drum, drone drone drone, blah blah blah and STORMY, STORMY, STORMY and yada yada yada, etc., etc., etc.”
Everyone seems to want to point to the misdeeds of the other side as proof positive of the superiority of their own beloved ideology. It boils down to a clash of world-views that never solves anything except to supposedly demonstrate that thoughtful people can disagree. The problem with thoughtful people is there are never any around when you need them. The ‘Fair and Balanced’ channel, Fox News seems to apply that slogan in the sense that they treat liberals with the same courtesy and respect that conservatives are afforded on CNN.
After months of enduring the squabbling on cable news, talk radio, and the newspapers, all I really know for sure is that Stormy Daniels’ real name is Stephanie Clifford, and that the letters in that name could be rearranged to spell ‘deaf sphincter foil’. Not really sure what use could be made of that fact, other than to speculate that Deaf Sphincter Foil might be a good name for a rock band.
