Mrs. E and I spent three luxurious days utilizing our zero-carbon emission vehicle (canoe) (well, except the carbon emissions emanating from ME) on the Jack's Fork River in the Ozark Mountains over the Memorial Day holiday weekend. No phones (lie: we had a satellite phone for the newbie parents on the trip), no internet, no politics, no pets, just lots and lots and lots of beer and totally inappropriate sexual and poop humor. Three days. I go away for three damn days and come back to this:
"I'm very disappointed to hear that Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts is near death because of a brain tumor. I always hoped Senator Kennedy would live long enough to be assassinated."
--ESPN Talk Show Host Mark Madden
And this:
"My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. I don't understand it," she said...
And this:
"…and now we have what some are reading—as a suggestion that somebody knock off Osama , umm, ah… Obama, well both if we could…haha…"
What the fuck, people???! You can't go one damn holiday weekend, one where we're supposed to be honoring people who have given their lives in war TO DEFEND OUR DEMOCRACY, without talk of assassinating progressive liberal presidential nominees and senators??? For shame, you lame fucks.
You should have heard Trotta's apology...if you can call it that. I've never seen her before, and maybe she always talks like this...even when she's sincere...but I highly doubt it.
Here's a clip of her attempt to clarify HRC's comment and her "apology" is at the 2:50 mark:
""I'm very disappointed to hear that Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts is near death because of a brain tumor. I always hoped Senator Kennedy would live long enough to be assassinated." "
Hahaha. That takes some balls for a politician to say that.
Some folks sleep on a problem, but you can camp on one as well. Camping is for the mind what a high-speed run on the highway is for a car. It tends to blow out all the sludge that accumulates in the type of urban driving most of us are forced to do in order to earn a living.
-- Tim Cahill
To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The most alarming sign of the state of our society now is that our leaders have the courage to sacrifice the lives of young people in war but not the courage to tell us that we must be less greedy and wasteful.
-- Wendell Berry