Tag Archive 'bumpersticker'

Shouting at Six Feet of Dirt

Lee on Dec 05 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics


(image: Planetsave)

Apparently PETA’s taste for misanthropy has motivated them to enter a new promotional market: the manufacture of human coffins. As you can see above, the result is a kind of bumpersticker for a corpse.

A note of caution. Were you tempted to purchase one of these for your own burial, spare a second thought of sympathy for the poor eulogist. The chances are probably good that your tendency to shout bitter ideological slogans about animal rights at completely inappropriate times like funerals, would be the aspect of your personality he’d be trying to politely avoid (eg, “she was a woman of…bold convictions.”).

Sphere: Related Content

1 Comment »

Cocktail Politics, Rio Rancho Office Space and Truman Republicans

Lee on Nov 03 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Election 2008

It occurs to me that the sequence of cocktails is the best political indicator I know of on election night. In 2004 I was attending a Democratic election party and early on everyone was drinking wine and martinis in stemware, or beer and soda in tall glasses. The ambiance befit the beverages: general levity and young merriment. Sporty coquettish girls with wide white toothy smiles dominated all conversations.

But when it became clear that the exit polls predicting a Kerry victory were wildly mistaken, and field reports were coming in on cell phones of Karl Rove’s successful mobilization effort, it wasn’t long before the assembled Democrats had exchanged their drinks for short glasses filled with dark brown fluids. To match the new taste for scotch and bourbon whiskey, the sporty girls seemed to disappear and old men began to dominate conversations.

(more…)

Sphere: Related Content

2 Comments »