bring me a glass of whisky a gun and two bullets

Fuck the looking glass, we're thru like, twenty eight wormholes. we're not even in the same dimension anymore.

Did you know Pat Sajak has a blog? Did you know he was a bit of a libertarian, occasionally (ok, often) straying into wingnut conservative territory? Feature that. The Wheel of Fortune guy is a GOP stooge. When the revolution is complete, when Democrats are jailed for thoughtcrime, and reality contestants compete to see who gets to eat a poor person's baby on live television, and when retirement is reduced to a kind of cruel roulette game, when the GOP requires a trained monkey to host our evening Programming ... Pat Sajak will no doubt be there to spin the wheels for us.

Here's the Sajak Says... archive
Here's my current favorite entry, in which Pat tries his hand at a little sci-fi: 2008 in review. I note it was dated 12/24/2004. Merry fuckin' Christmas to you too, Pat! I have no idea what Sajak's religion is, so maybe I'm being too judgmental.

But seriously. Pat. Sajak. Who knew?!

be afraid. be very afraid.

we are seriously not thinking ahead here, and I think this woman is very close to correct.

http://counterpunch.com/whitehurst03282005.html

Particularly trenchant passages:

Those who are becoming "numbed out" to the images of Ms. Schiavo's real-time starvation-a gruesome reality-TV event for which none of us were prepared-will either avoid the news, crack jokes, or minimize the significance of her dying ("they say starvation doesn't hurt" or "people die all the time-get over it!"). But the many Americans who are growing increasingly distressed (with accompanying feelings of powerlessness) are likely to undergo a personal transformation wherein their more moderate views are discarded and they begin to identify with angry, extremist persons or groups.

One highly personal event-especially wherein one person/one name captures the public's emotional attention-can function as a "tipping point", shifting public opinion to the far right in societies already infected with quasi-fascist framing of national crises (see George Lakoff's work on framing).
(...)
There's no better time for political positioning than when progressives' defenses are down and all seems well, a state of affairs that the misleading opinion polls of last week made possible. While progressives assume that the legal and democratic system "still works" because conservatives' appeals have been repeatedly rebuffed, the crafty right is aiming to keep the Bush family in power by being the only sympathetic voice. (...)

By siding with her husband, we shoot ourselves in the foot in two ways: (1) we are reinforcing patriarchal nuclear family values (...) (2) we willingly give up all claims to supporting real "family values" (the extended family, not just the Dobson/Falwell nuclear family)

Call it 2008. Call it Bush III: The Search for Jeb. Call it the end of the world as we know it.