I just had to share

Okay, here goes (with thanks to Kathy Kozan, who forwarded this one to my wife):



How many members of the Bush administration are
required to replace the proverbial light bulb?


The Answer is SEVEN:

(1) one to deny that a light bulb needs to be
replaced;

(2) one to attack and question the patriotism of
anyone who has questions about the light bulb;

(3) one to blame the previous administration for the
need for a new light bulb;

(4) one to arrange the invasion of a country rumored
to have a secret stockpile of light bulbs;

(5) one to get together with Vice President Cheney and
figure out how to pay Halliburton Industries one
million dollars for a light bulb;

(6) one to arrange a photo-op session showing Bush
changing the light bulb while dressed in a flight
suit and wrapped in an American flag;

(7) and finally one to explain to Bush the difference
between screwing a light bulb and screwing the
country.




So, okay, it's not really funny. It's too true to be funny.


In answer to LKM, I don't really know any more about Barak Obama than anybody else; I, like most of the country, was most impressed with his keynote address at the convention. I also, again like most of the country, promptly forgot about it in the wake of a string of War On Terror announcements.

Wonder how many of those we're gonna have during the week following the Republican Convention?




Y'know, I don't WANT to be political. I don't have a position. I don't have a plan. All I have is a profound dislike for obfuscation and the politics of fear.

I hope one day to write my own work of political philosophy; I'll call it --

JEFFERSON'S OATH

"I pledge eternal enmity toward every form of tyranny over the mind of man."



Or, maybe, NIETZSCHE'S CONTENTION

"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than any lies can be."


I guess my vote is pretty much always gonna lean toward whatever party comes closest to realizing that Questions are more useful than Answers.



Instead of a War on Terror, we should have a War on Ideology, and just shoot the asses off every kind of fundamentalist, religious or political. But that ends up being an ideology of its own, so I guess -- to be truly intellectually honest -- I'd have to start by shooting myself.


So it goes.