August 15, 2007

• A “Cho”ice Encounter & Bush’s Brain Drain

   

  Last night we went to a DVD signing for Margaret Cho’s latest movie.  It’s called Bam Bam & Celeste.  I just bought it yesterday, so haven’t seen it yet, but it looks interesting.  Margaret was very nice and funny, and you might recognize the actress next to her, Jane Lynch,  from The 40 Year Old Virgin, A Mighty Wind, or several TV shows including The Practice. 
  

   

   

  

  If you’re not familiar with Margaret Cho’s stand up, here’s a taste:

  And speaking of George Bush, Monday had to have been one of the best days ever in this administration.

  

  Karl Rove, the evil Svengali, exits with his “usual M.O.: delusional, fanatical and deceptive”.  The Guardian said it best:

  In the end, though, Mr Rove has failed. He has failed because he was only interested in winning 51% of the votes. Having won them, he wanted Mr Bush to govern America (and even the world) with pure self-interest. For a while that is what Mr Bush did. Everything about the federal government was politicized, boosted by the post-9/11 mood. But the mounting evidence of failure in Iraq, a succession of partisan scandals and the administration’s indifference to Hurricane Katrina wrecked Mr Bush’s standing among non-aligned voters and alarmed the dwindling minority of liberal Republican voters. The electorate revolted. Mr Rove became the Democrats’ hate figure. After the 2006 elections, the whole Rove strategy of engineering a paradigm shift towards hegemonic conservative government appears in ruins.  Read more…

  So good riddance to 1/3 of the most evil American Politburo that ever existed.

  

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  Here are a couple of photos of dinner with Laura and Sarah:

  

  

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  Song of the day

   

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