There are things in life that do actually matter. However, August is not the month to observe them. Trivial matters become magnified, and the Earth shakes at every non event. This past August was no exception.
Speculation rose to a fever pitch over whether somebody will run for President. The excitement is not over any issue, but whether or not they will decide to even apply for the job at all.
The media, perhaps in desperate need of sex in their own personal lives, are fascinated with the sex of everybody else, whether it be gay, straight, successful or attempted, legal or illegal.
A Senator denied he was gay after soliciting gay sex in a place where soliciting of gay sex was commonplace.
Dumb, useless Hollywood starlets acted like dumb useless Hollywood starlets.
Politicians argued over the significance of a war report that had not been delivered yet.
Candidates that nobody outside of their own families had heard of announced that they were dropping out of the presidential race, lamenting that the system was broken because nobody cared about them.
There are no sports on television. Baseball, soccer and golf do not count, and they never will. Pro Football games are not yet Earth shatteringly relevant.
America is bored in August because there is nothing to do.
Parents count the days until the children go back to school, and even some children are counting it as well.
It may be a beautiful day outside, but the scorching heat makes it difficult to enjoy it. Lounging poolside sounds appropriate.
We spend so much of our lives dealing with reality that it is nice to take a few weeks and just laugh at the idiocy that passes for consequential information.
Senators pursuing hookers, while media hookers pursue the Senators. I wonder which matters less.
I could blog about something significant today, but does anybody really want to read it today? If you don’t, I don’t blame you. If the rest of America can mail it in, I should be allowed to as well.
Even protesters are bored. Vegetarians and carnivores will be getting together for Labor Day festivities, and as long as the zealots have their veggie burgers and tofu dogs, they will be temporarily satiated.
Normally people ignore most protesters anyway, but at least in August the protesters know this as well. Besides, what is the point of pretending to be deeply committed to a cause nobody else cares about when it is too hot outside to stand or harass a total stranger?
September approaches, with Labor Day barbecues filled with red meat. The National Football League begins. The presidential race starts to heat up.
Life starts to get relevant again. Besides, if a Senatorial hound dog removes himself from a hooker’s body and sees his 5 o’clock shadow, then there might be six more weeks of silliness. Depending on your level of intellect, this is negative or positive.
I hope everybody enjoyed the silly season and the three day end of nonsense coronation weekend. Now sit down and be quiet and be ready for serious business starting the first Tuesday in September.
eric
Eric,
I’ll tell you the truth, I was impatient for August to be over but I know better now, then to tap my foot, waiting for it to end. Thanks MSM!! More things, I could have gone my whole life without knowing ….some mens bathroom habits.
Cute article, but lots of truth in it also.
For some reason I dont think silly season wiil end. The only time silly crap seems to take a short break is when days like 911 happen. And we all seem to sraighten out , for a little while.
I’m almost disappointed that you don’t like baseball :(
But everyone has their faults and instead of liking you in spite of them, I’ll continue to like you because of them :)
You know, just to make a point, I’d like to state that the GOP, with all of its faults, boots out bums like El Perverto Craig and racists like David Duke and JAILS bribetakers like Cunningham. HOWEVER, the Dhimmicrats seem to cover for their scum. Gerry Studds, KKK Byrd, William “of the freezer Money” Jefferson, Alcee Hastings, to name a few.
Great post, eric! Happy LABOR DAY! (Thank God for us libs, huh?)
Gunny, Robert Byrd is no longer in the KKK and he has disavowed them and asked for forgiveness. Try being a real Christian and leave him be. The voters of West Virginia obviously have. And that gets to the difference between the Dems and the GOPhers. Studds and Franks were forgiven BY THE VOTERS. In the end, that’s all that matters. GOP voters will not vote for gays. Period. Even if they are competent good people. They are not open-minded, forgiving people. Look at what happened to McGreevy. The Dems did not forgive him, but not because he was gay, but because it looked like he was doling out political favors to his lover. As for Hastings and Jefferson, that is a problem for the Dems. But it’s not just lack of accountability. The black causus is, quite understandably, very defensive when it comes to their own. The Dems tread very lighly on their toes for that reason. It’s a problem, true, but not a very big one. It can be dealt with.
JMJ
Jersey,
I LOVE the way you spin things. You should be on the tube with Gollum’s lookalike, Head Clinton Apologist Carville.
I had a helluva laugh when Red Nanny P-Lousy tried to appoint Alcee Hastings, an impeached EX Fed-judge to head the Nat Intel Cmte. Now THAT is funny. Take someone with no scruples and put them in charge of ALL of America’s secrets!
HHAHAHAHAHAAHHA.
Reminds me of Sen “Leaky” Leahy disclosing classified info in teh 80’s and teh Dems saying nothing about that.
Gunny, are you always on point?
If you noticed, I didn’t spin anything. I didn’t apologize for Hastings. I simply put things in context, something you should learn to do. For example, that silly little leak of which you refer, was of unclassified information and there was no rule or law broken in revealing it. Context, Gunny, is not spin. Try to learn the difference.
JMJ
Actually, the release of Unclassified/FOUO (for official use only) IS a breach of several EO’s as well as Security Orders. Leaky Leahy has also released CM rated Secret.
Context? Oh, you mean that liberals can be counted on to: hate america and love our enemeies, slash the military, raise taxes, spend more on welfare, free criminals, ignore threats, aid and abet illegal aliens (ACLU), and send Carter on dictator ass-kissing missions.
Got it.
BTW, how IS that War on Poverty going that LBJ saddled us with? What is it, 70 TRILLION dollars wasted now?
Well, Gunny, I don’t want to live in a Soviet hellhole with a secretive government.
And just so you know, 70% of the debt accrued in the history of the American government happened under the auspices of just three GOP Presidents – Reagan, Bush I and Bush II.
Know your history, Gunny.
Look, “Liberals” have very little political power. Most power is in the hands of a center right coalition. It’s been that way for generations. I’m a true liberal. I love my country, try to understand my enemies, wish the military was truly “slashed” and removed from the 140 countries we’re in as our Founders wanted, wish we could raise taxes on the wealthy and especially that we would remove the FICA cap, don’t believe we need to spend more on welfare – just less on the MIC and the Police State and more on education, think violent criminals should get serious hard time but nonviolent victimless crime be decriminalized, wish we had realistic legal immigration and a functional INS, and I think Jimmy Carter was probably the finest human being to ever set foot in the White House and for that reason was a terribly ineffective President.
Know your fellow cirtizens, Gunny.
JMJ
Jersey,
Nice rant. Try to understand the position of the USA in the world today. We’re the ONLY superpower, like it or not. We’re the policeman of the world, like it or not. Our Founding Fathers did an OUTSTANDING job but they were not a superpower nor were there nasty little things like WMD’s and Global Terrorism then. Indeed, when the Barbary Pirates tried a little terrorism, Jefferson send in the Marines to perform a smackdown.
So just thank God that there are people like me who voluntarily step forth to stand a watch on the wall. Something that you and your kind refuse to do.
Jimmy Carter….BWHAHAHAH The poster child of liberals and how they LOVE their Dictators.
Gunny, there’s a huge difference between a smackdown and a 2 1/2 trillion dollar occupation of a nation in the vain, pyrrhic effort to make a region look a little more like us. A Jeffersonian smackdown would have been just fine with me.
I’m glad there are people who sign up and serve (I actaully tried but was turned down back in the days of Reagan’s “proffesional army” because I was to wild when I was young, which I thought was kinda counterproductive to society, but whatever – now they’re scrambling to get kids like I was).
As for the rest of your post, it was adolesecnt.
JMJ
JMJ – The worthless piece of shit stole your post – http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=157205897&blogID=306123577. It looks like she stole every word on her so-called “blog”
(I rarely drop character but sometimes you have to ;-))