I have seen the future.
And it is Sarah Palin starring in the Disney (/nytimes) story of one woman trying to prove that a regular mom can be president of America too, DARNIT. And jobs. Until about mid-late 2012.
"Pretty cool,” she said in a follow-up note. “Wrong candidate."
— Sarah Palin
(Source: The New York Times)
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Where one can’t compete, one must aspire.
No girl gains perspective until she’s transported. It’s a universal law of life.
"— Upstairs Downstairs s01e01
10 years later Osama is dead. It’s momentous to remove this monster from the world and ensure that he can no longer lend his power to initiate any further attacks against the US or any other country.
But what does his death actually mean? He’s dead. And the 3000+ people that he killed on 9/11 are still dead too. It feels terribly inadequate. My best analogy would be something like, Well, we can all feel better now, because that rattle snake in the backyard? The one we looked for for TEN YEARS has been eradicated.
It doesn’t bring back the people who were lost. It doesn’t destroy the rattle snake’s ecosystem.
It’s so hard to wish for a pre-9/11 world constantly and get this. Osama’s death isn’t bad news; it’s the best. The worst part is realizing that this is the best thing that we could have hoped for. I wished for more from hope.
“I am a real American.”
I’m as impressed as ever at the president’s ability to maintain his sense of humor in the midst of some complete idiocy on the part of Donald Trump et al. It wasn’t enough to have Obama submit his birth certificate. No, they needed to see the “official” version. And the official version isn’t even enough, with some people demanding forensic analysis.
Obama submits his official birth video at 2:49 as further forensic evidence. FTW
Seriously is this awesome man our president?? Associating himself with Disney movies of the 90s is possibly the most American thing this administration could have done.
Call Disney if you don’t believe me. They have the official long-form version.
I’m drawing parallels between The Lion King as Disney’s masterpiece and this speech for the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
The president practically sings (figuratively speaking) out a series of zingers to Trump. Now that the birth certificate drama has been laid to rest, Obama says:
He [Trump] can finally get back to issues that matter like, ‘Did we fake the moon landing?’, ‘What really happened in Roswell?’, and ‘Where are Biggie and Tupac??’
The sentiment is right. The examples are slightly suspect.
I think the speech was a success.
Your dad was into mother nature before you were and he has the tent popping skills to prove it. He knew that partying in the city was played out, so he stepped his game up and stepped into the great outdoors. With his Igloo cooler filled with sangria and man musk scented flannel, he marched cocksure into the wilderness. He was the Bear Grylls of his generation, but unlike Bear, he drank fragrant wine instead of his fragrant piss.
So hipsters, next time you’re packing up the 1990 Volvo wagon to escape into nature because “those fucking mainstream ass hats” have gentrified your once beautiful urban landscape, remember this…
The great outdoors were just the outdoors until your dad got there.
Thanks to Korin L. for submitting her awesome dad’s photo
New York Times Coverage of Royal Wedding
Some quotes from today that induced a few shudders… and some great concluding lines.
She borrowed it from Queen Elizabeth, in case you were wondering. It is made of a great many diamonds.
Somehow this line makes me feel simultaneously like Oliver Twist being bitch slapped and a pitiful dimwit from the Middle Ages. Both at once. Maybe I should be impressed.
Catty observers pointed out that Prime Minister David Cameron’s wife, Samantha, was possibly the only female guest who wore no hat (or fascinator) at all.
Who are the catty observers here??
Mr. Cameron wore a traditional morning suit. The dress code had filled him with angst this month when news broke out that in order to avoid appearing too posh, he intended to wear a regular business suit, what the British call a “lounge suit.” But as scorn poured upon him — he is in fact posh and frequently wears posh clothes — he said that he would wear a morning suit after all.
Think about this. This is the news that is preserved.
Some questions were also raised about the guest list. John Major and Margaret Thatcher, former Conservative prime ministers, were invited; Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, former Labour prime ministers, were not. (Mr. Major attended; Lady Thatcher was ill and stayed home.) The Syrian ambassador was invited, and then uninvited. Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, was never invited.
Are they neglecting to mention Obama’s invite for any particular reason?
Kate’s elevation, such as it is, to royalty adds a special frisson to the story of her romance with William. The world knows that there are often no fairy-tale endings to these made-for-television moments — the collapse of the marriage of William’s parents being the most obvious example. But this couple seems to be a real one, with the potential to resuscitate the image of a royal family tarnished by misadventures like the antics of Prince Harry and Prince Andrew, and resentment over privilege and expenditures.
Kate, who promised to love William but not to obey him, is not actually a princess yet (if she were, she would be called Princess William, which is perhaps not a dream title). But she seems already at ease in what will now be a lifetime job, one with a heavy burden of responsibility as well as great privilege. As the couple drove in their horse-drawn carriage from the church to Buckingham Palace, she waved like a pro — from the wrist, the royal way.
This is pitch perfect.
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- Quotations from:
A Traditional Royal Wedding, but for the 3 Billion Witnesses
We got a package from the national FOX today to air on the night’s news about the Royal Wedding. Since local stations can’t exactly send a reporter to cover stuff like that, a correspondent will cover a universal piece—kind of like when a newspaper grabs stuff from the Associated Press.
Anyway,…
