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August 25, 2006
I realized recently that this summer marks the five-year anniversary of That's My Bush!, the amazing but short-lived sitcom from Trey Parker and Matt Stone. There was that blissful time before September 11th when everyone agreed Bush was a joke, and this show captured it with a concept of unprecedented brilliance: It turned the White House into a situation comedy straight out of the 80s, and ran Bush, Karl Rove and others through the paces of ridiculous sitcom plots based around the idea that Bush is a bumbling but lovable fool, complete with terrible jokes and over-enthusiastic audience laughter. (Sample dialogue: "George, you may be a terrible president, but sometimes, you're a great husband.") I think people didn't really get it at the time, but five years later, the show is better and more relevant than ever, especially given this week's revelation about Bush's fart jokes. In fact, the final episode -- about Bush getting "fired" for losing the new middle east peace treaty -- seems more applicable than one would have hoped. That episode remains one of the greatest TV moments, as George gets tossed out of the White House and gets a series of odd jobs styled after different sitcoms, with Trey Parker theme song parodies of each one. Click on the above links for videos on YouTube, and click here for an MP3 of the "That's My Bush!" theme song.
August 17, 2006  Today I was out with some friends to show our disapproval of the President's visit to my hometown of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. A nice crowd turned out, more than one would expect in this reddest of red Pa. counties. Bush was here to raise money for Lynn Swann, the former Pittsburgh Steeler and current gubernatorial candidate who is going to lose. August 11, 2006  At LaGuardia Airport, a frozen flight information monitor inadvertently reveals why the airline industry doesn't work as efficiently as it used to ... the airlines are running Windows XP. August 07, 2006  I am recovering from some sort of tropical, summertime viral bug that has left me feverish and nearly incapacitated. In the meantime, it seems that India is attempting to kick Coke and Pepsi out of the country on the grounds that the beverages contain high levels of pesticides. The Supreme Court of India has gotten into the act, demanding that the beverage makers reveal their well-kept secret formulas so that the Court can make a determination as to the drinks' safety. It is unknown how the moves will affect Thums Up Cola, an intriguingly misspelled alternative to Coke now also owned by the Coca-Cola Company. (I used to regularly drink Thums Up at Vik's Chaat House in Berkeley, which is the best Indian food I've ever eaten.) |