Doggedly searching for the crux of the biscuit.
Regular readers know that I'm a pretty big fan of Oklahoma's current sitting senators because they just say the damnedest things. In so dreary a setting as the United States Senate, you take what laughs you can get and Coburn and Inhofe just keep serving them up. Granted, they aren't actually in on any of the jokes, but somehow that makes it all the more endearing, doesn't it? It's hard to improve upon such organic comédie verité, but Charles Pierce has done it. Just a taste:
Right now the state is represented in the U.S. Senate by two of the most entertaining primates ever to sit in that august body. It is a remarkable achievement. Usually a state will elect one boring senator and one entertaining senator. Look at Pennsylvania: There's bland old Arlen Specter, trying to keep Ralph Reed from using him as a piñata, and there's Rick Santorum, who is the funniest thing about Christianity since the Singing Nun fell off the charts in 1965. For that matter, look at my home state of Massachusetts. We have Teddy Kennedy and we have John Kerry. It's like being represented simultaneously by Falstaff and Ned Flanders.
It only gets funnier from there.
TrackBackHow could you resist quoting this: that they'll let only one girl go to the bathroom." Presumably Coburn meant "one girl at a time," otherwise some young lady had been accorded a rather dubious honor on behalf of her classmates. My guess is that she'd much rather have been selected prom queen.
Would the honor be that all of the other girls wanted her because they were lesbians, or that they had somehow transferred their needs to use a bathroom to her?
There's a syringe in your theater seat with HIV in it!
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400 Christians were not allowed to celebrate Christmas by Muslims and forced to celebrate on a nearby mountain, where they were spared from the tsunami!
Ru, is that tsunami legend for real (that is to say, going around, not actually happened)? If so, boy, does that say a lot about modern so-called Christians.
Posted by: fiend at February 23, 2005 11:41 PM"is that tsunami legend for real"
Survey says... false
The tsunami Christians story is going around. It is a fairly typical story that surfaces in some form or other whenever there is a disaster that claims the lives of non-Christians. One of my "holier" relatives happily regurgitated it for me after hearing it on an indoctrination show. Numerous attempts to find any such group/event have (shockingly) failed. Similar stories of islands spared because they are where Christians seek refuge from Muslim death squads have also come up false.
People have also sent me pictures that they believed were "new" sea creatures washed up during the tsunami. They were supposed to be a wonderous proof of God's existence. As interesting as the fish were, I recognized the photos from a marine biology reasearch project in South America, from a long time ago.
Posted by: Ru at February 24, 2005 01:11 PM