Et Tu, Barack?
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on April 3rd, 2009 4:40 am by HL
Et Tu, Barack?
WASHINGTON — Julius Caesar was murdered by Brutus and his friends in the Roman legislature on the ides of March 44 B.C. Free enterprise died at the hands of Barack and his friends in the American legislature on the 30th of March 2009. The following day, those same ministers of American government completed the death warrant for civic duty in our republic. They called it the “Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act.” The bill passed — as did the killing of Caesar — with overwhelming support from the legislature. It was a remarkable performance, worthy of a Shakespearean tragedy. In the space of 48 hours, the president of the United States seized control of one of the world’s largest manufacturing companies and fired its CEO. He followed up by congratulating our representatives for creating the 14th-largest paid entity on the planet — a quarter-million government-paid “volunteers.” And then he departed the capital to receive the cheers of adoring crowds — in Europe. If Adolf Hitler or Josef Stalin had done any of this, Americans would have gone crazy. As it was, most of our countrymen apparently enjoyed the show.
Learning from Dummies
I recently stumbled upon a brilliant piece of advice on the radio. Did you know that if you post topless photos of yourself on the Internet, some dubious character may find out one day? And, depending on your career choices, you may even live to regret the decision. “Think before you post,” pleaded the extraordinarily even-tempered woman in this public service announcement, which was “brought to me” by the good people at the Department of Something-or-Other in conjunction with the Ad Council.