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The people of San Francisco—that’s a city in California, for all you “real” Americans—have voted against Proposition R, which would’ve renamed the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant.
Now, I dislike the high-pressure sewage treatment lobby as much as the next guy, and we here at Owl&Bear try to give them as little publicity as possible. Therefore, you may have already asked yourself why we’re even bothering to write about this. The answer lies in the proposed name for the plant: The George W. Bush Sewage Plant.
Continue reading ‘Proposition to Rename Sewage Plant after Bush Fails; Sewage Plant Retains Dignity’
I will enjoy shipping Bush back to Texas only slightly more than throwing Sarah Barracuda back into the sea.
The AV Club interviews Daily Show correspondent Samantha Bee and Sam Adams describes his experiences at Sawfest, where moviegoers watch all five ‘torture porn’ movies back-to-back. The website Serious Eats lists some ideas for your election night party menu, including ‘Right Wings,’ baked Alaska, and ‘I Can See White Russians From My House.’
Wishes: President Barack Obama makes an immediate effort to cross party lines. He leads bipartisan efforts to regulate lobbying and electioneering. Obama appoints John McCain and Hillary Clinton to high level posts in his cabinet. Obama pushes for environmental legislation that works to cancel out Bush’s eight years of efforts to weaken regulations. Obama succeeds in providing at least catastrophic health coverage for every American. The Obama Administration works to cut spending and also revamps or creates more targeted social programs. Dick Cheney has his final heart attack, preferably while walking alone in the wilderness.
The Prescient Politics of The Big Lebowski - Consider the traits Walter exhibits over the course of the film: faith in American military might (the Gulf War, he says, “is gonna be a piece of cake”; in the original script, he calls it “a fucking cakewalk”); nostalgia for the Cold War (”Charlie,” he says, referring to the Viet Cong, was a “worthy fuckin’ adversary”); strong support for the state of Israel (to judge from his reverent paraphrase of Theodor Herzl: “If you will it, Dude, it is no dream”); and even, perhaps, past affiliation with the left (he refers knowingly to Lenin’s given name and admits to having “dabbled in pacifism”). Goodman, who has called the role his all-time favorite, seems also to have sensed Walter’s imperialist side. “Dude has a rather, let’s say, Eastern approach to bowling,” he said in an interview. “Walter is strictly Manifest Destiny.”
Interview: It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia’s Rob McElhenney, Glenn Howerton, and Charlie Day - “Wait ’til this season. There’ll be some more music coming. There’s a musical on the way. Charlie’s opus. And the gang performs it”.
Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 failed in ousting the Bush administration from the White House in 2004. Slacker Uprising, the new film by Moore documenting the 2004 tour of the same name, gives him one more chance to proclaim, “Mission accomplished,” and be correct this time. (On a personal note, I don’t see how this film could fail in getting rid of Bush.)
Ah the Terror Alert Spectrum. For years it’s served as a sort of terrorist’s mood ring—only slightly less scientific—letting us know our odds of catching a whiff of anthrax or being assaulted by an extremist with flaming shoes or bottled water. But now that election season is upon us, what will become of our beloved level of terror?
Will Bush lower America’s terror level before the election to remind us about how successful his two terms have been? If not, will John McCain or Barack Obama reduce the level upon elevation to the high office?
Breaking News! CNN says:
John McCain suspends campaigning to work on economy, requests postponing Friday debate; asks Obama do the same.
My first reaction was Whaaa?
Continue reading ‘If McCain Can’t Walk and Chew Gum At the Same Time…’
Republicintegrity: (Noun) Applies to politicians who support the following: Open Government—in the form of open dishonesty; The Rule of Law—in its application to regular folks, but not regular folks elected to office; Faith—that Americans are powerless.
Continue reading ‘You Can Put Lipstick on Dick Cheney and It Will Look Like Sarah Palin’
The results of the 2004 presidential election gave us, among other things, a potentially reverse-engineered acronym.
PEST, or post-election selection trauma, refers to an overwhelming dissatisfaction with and denial of election results that causes some to seek therapy. In 2004, the vitriol with which some regarded the re-election of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney had become unmanageably consuming. That’s the rumor, at least. An Internet search for the condition yields conflicting results. Among the legitimate-looking news reports of therapists seeing patients are sources that point to PEST’s dubious origins.
Continue reading ‘Why America May Need Therapy Come November’
Your guide to the WALL-E controversy - This is an amazing article about WALL-E’s latent fascism that everyone should read.
