Ahh, new ep of The Daily Show

Okay, if I didn't love The Daily Show already, last night's bit (watched just now thanks to TiVo) on "mad" Howard Dean would have definitely done it. If you missed it last night try to catch it on the repeats. Trust me.

I need other people to live my life for me

Went to bed early, slept through the night, still tired today. I'm starting to suspect that either the holidays took more out of me than I thought or I'm fighting something off. Doesn't make sense otherwise.

Well, I suppose the goverment could be trying to kill me by putting tiny amounts of poison in my food. That's always an option.

Anyhoo, I mention these fascinating details in case anyone's wondering why I'm still fairly quiet on this end of the world. Not ignoring you, just not up to typing. I forsee yet another early bedtime tonight.

In other news can people live my life for me? I have no idea what to have for dinner tonight. Bearing in mind this will also affect what I have for lunch tomorrow as lunch will be whatever's left over. Should I make something? Order in? And either way, what should I get?

And can I go back to bed now?

Wait - what?

I found this thanks to Dean's Blog for America but I'm going to link to The LA Times article about it for a slightly less biased source (not saying the LA Times has no bias, just comparatively less bias).

Cut and pasted here for when the article goes down:

( Dean is Targeted By Ad Campaign )

Okay, now I'm not going to comment on The Club For Growth because for all I know the only difference between them and Moveon.org is their personal politics. Nor am I going to talk about how this reflects Dean because for right now I don't care. I'm not saying anything about being pro or anti Dean.

What I will say is this:

SUSHI-EATING??

I'm sorry, but when did it actually become 1983? They're actually using the phrase "sushi-eating" as both an unironic and not in any way intended as actually referring to a part of the female anatomy which would at least make sense considering Dean's support of gay rights assuming we're presupposing the sushi-eaters are female insult? What? What??

Seriously - is this Heathers or something? Did "Bottled-water drinking" get cut out for time? Or was it considered redundant after "latte-drinking" because Lord knows if there's something which in no way represents good red-blooded American consumerism it's the tiny, unknown coffeehouse we like to call STARBUCKS!

And I'm not even going to get into the whole concept of "government-expanding" (CoughPatriotActIICough) or "Hollywood-loving" (CoughCurrentGovernorofCaliforniaCough) as really my mind is stalled on "Volvo-driving" which as insults go I just cannot comprehend. So they're saying what? That these people are really into anti-lock breaks? That they like cars with good safety ratings?

Seriously, what? The insult is what, exactly? Because all I can think of is that it's meant to mean either A) That Volvos aren't made in America and therefore anyone who doesn't dare buy Ford or Chevy can go to Hell, and since France doesn't make cars that anyone cares about they had to pick a European car with a name they could spell and besides the "V"s were kind of Frenchy anyway or B) Those who are "Volvo-driving" are probably the kind of latte-drinking, sushi-eating, plastics-recycling sons of bitches who don't buy SUVs, which we all know are God's cars, but at the same time doesn't Volvo make SUVs too so again I'm back on what?

Wow. I'm just - words fail. Well they do now anyway. What were they even thinking of? I mean yeah, okay, this ad was obviously being aimed at a specific demographic and not intended to win over a scifi-reading, bagel-eating, tea-drinking, cat-owning, good gas milage-loving bitch like yours truly, but I'm having a hard time believing this ad worked on anybody who wasn't already voting the way they wanted anyway so what's the point?

Plus doesn't this backfire on them severely? Because what this says to me is that Club for Growth apparently thinks that people in Iowa have yet to raise the level of their collective consciousness beyond that of a Wendy's ad during the late Dave Thomas era ("Dave says don't expand your cultural horizons by eating food you've never tried before! Eat Wendy's instead! It's extremely non-threatening!") and that apparently they think Iowa and Vermont have some kind of vendetta going on wherein not only do Iowans not want a nasty bike-riding freak like Dean near them but they're happy to send him back to the people of Vermont who deserve his kind of raw-fish bastardry which, granted that I've never asked, but I honestly don't think Iowans hate people from Vermont that much. Certainly not with the level of disgust that, say, people from Colorado reserve for Californians.

So color me confused.

ETA: Apparently Club for Growth has its own version of Moveon.org called Moveright.org. Click the link. It answers the question of "No, really, what's the most inadvertently funny thing outside of the sushi-eating ad?"

Still more

You may have seen this already but rosethorne linked to it and I thought it was worth spreading.

As though we lacked for reasons to compare the current state of the US to 1984, we now have this article from the San Francisco Chronicle on How the Secret Service protects Bush from free speech.

( Text here for when the article goes down )

No snarky commentary. I'm too busy feeling a chill go down my spine.