Weekend Tids and Bits

 

 

NO SEX PLEASE, WE’RE CHINESE – Authorities in China demolished an under-construction sex-themed amusement park called Love Land near Chongqing, after widespread (ahem!)  coverage in the world media about giant genital sculptures. Seems the leaders of the world’s most populous nation would rather not focus on how, exactly, all those new little workers are gaining admission to the Workers Paradise. Sex in China is still mostly an unmentionable, a leftover from the Puritan Sayings of Chairman Mao-driven cultural revolution, when “I admire your devotion to the triumph of the proletariat” was a hot pickup line.

 

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FIRST ROUGH DRAFT OF HISTORY’S FATE – Journalists facing the axe from the soul-sucked ghouls who now run most of America’s newspapers have often comforted themselves that their noble, underpaid, overworked calling was revered as the “first rough draft of history.” Rough indeed, because William Rathje, a professor of archeology at the University of Arizona, studied the contents of landfills and found newspapers were the top ingredient by volume and weight. Newspaper management should consider reaching out to landfill operators, seeking common cause in the utility of daily print journalism.

 

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TOWARDS SOCIALISM,  NOT DEMOCRAT SOCIALIST PARTY – is the resolution on a resolution (got that?)  by the Republican National Committee that wanted to label the Dems “Democrat Socialist Party.”  They damped it down to “stop pushing our country toward socialism” when RNC Chairman Michael Steele, suggested that even if it feels good, the GOP should stop shooting itself in the foot. Nothing leaked to the press, but don’t be surprised if the Limbaugh/Cheney Faithfull’s response is that Steele’s request means he’s pro gun-control.

 

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THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSES IN TEXAS – may be unfertile ground for Republican primary votes for Governor Rick Perry after a consultant told the Dallas Morning News that the party needs new voters but “that doesn't mean you take your principles and throw them out the door and become a whorehouse and let anybody in who wants to come in, regardless." No word yet on whether the consultant’s remark is sparking a Whorehouses For Hutchison movement to back Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, Perry’s primary opponent.

 

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HEY DIDDLE-DIDDLE, STRAIGHT DOWN THE MIDDLE – is the “centrist” way voters are going, according to an AP report on a Pew Research Center Survey. Independents now make up the largest proportion of voters in 70 years, the report says. Independent voters may be defined as those who vote for the  candidate they deem less likely to screw up than others.  Pew, which researches more things than your nosy maiden aunt, is found at: http://www.pewtrusts.org/.

 

 

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BANG BANG BAMBI – The credit card legislation President Obama signed also allowed carrying concealed loaded weapons in national parks in states that permit concealed carry otherwise. Thirty-nine states allow concealed carry. Anti-gun folks are aghast. Pro-gun folks are delighted. Common-sense folks probably carried a weapon when that made sense in any event and are bemused.

 

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HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY TO ALL – and please remember the men and women who paid with their lives so we could listen to a few patriotic speeches and then go off to a start-of-the-summer barbecue. Never mind the flags on cemeteries, although that’s nice. A better way to celebrate is to buy the next on-liberty soldier, sailor, airman or Marine you meet a drink or a meal, whether in person or as a contribution to the USO and other armed services support efforts.

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