July 21, 2004

  • The time has come to get outrageous.  Again.


    Or at least irreverent.


    Diss seriousity.


     


    I roared with laughter when I heard  California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenneger’s  condemnation of special interest lawmakers as “girlie-men”.  I howled even louder when I heard the “girlie-men” defenders protest Arnold’s invective as insensitive “gay-bashing” and “woman-bashing”.  Where, may I ask, were these outraged terminological censors when the Saturday Night skits featuring Arnold and Arnold worshippers appeared and comically coined the term “girlie-men” to depict wimps that couldn’t measure up to Arnold’s physical prowess?  “Ah,” but the detractors will object, “that was unserious satire, politics is serious, it’s real life.”  Please.  I find many cartoon characters and the make-believe sidekicks of my childhood more real than many politicians.  And if anything, politics twists and contorts ‘real life’ in near the same manner that death contorts a person’s pleasant countenance into a terrifying frozen scowl.  Besides, no one can seriously or reasonably expect any elected politician to abandon previously developed  “character”.  Arnold is Conan the Barbarian.  Arnold is the Terminator.  Arnold is the Anti-Girlie-Man Man.  Just as much as Ronald Reagan was our Mr. President “Win one for the Gipper”.


     


    I’d only take exception to Arnold’s characterization in stating that he didn’t go quite far enough.  Not merely some special-interest politicians are girlie-men, ALL politicians are girlie-men.  George Bush is a girlie-man.  John Kerry is a girlie-man.  Ralph Nader is a girlie-girlie-man!  Heh.  Even Arnold himself is a girlie-man anti-girlie-man man ( a case of previous character being dressed in a new occupational fabric).


     



     


    ~Above~  Jenna, girlie-man Bush’s daughter, peers girlishly out of the Presidential limo while her girlie-man daddy hides behind her in the metaphorical shadow of undisclosed ‘intelligence’ snafus.  Give us some girlie-tongue!  Ah!  Good girl.


     


    I don’t want to vote for Bush.  Or Kerry.  Or Nader.  I just wish I could vote against Bush.  Not for anybody.  Just against him.  I’d be willing to have my “against” vote even count only ½ of a vote for him.  So that it would take 2 “against” votes (let’s say, me and you) against any candidate to mathematically and actually negate a single "pro" vote for a candidate.  I think that’s fair.  I also think that it offers a realistic option to party-politics disillusioned voters to make an impact without having to firmly align with what they view as the current disenfranchising party system.


     


    Jenna for President.  Though by the looks of it, she’d make a better presidential intern at this time.

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