It’s amazing what internet searches will turn up sometimes. Just amazing. And this is not me. But I may just send an e-mail and see what happens. Freaky.
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So Wonder Woman pilots an invisible plane. In the Saturday morning cartoons, you can see the faint white outlines of the plane, and there’s Wonder Woman, sitting with commendable posture at the controls. So my question is this – what’s the point? How does this help her? Why doesn’t she just have a regular plane?
My friend Lisa, who thinks deeply about such things, believes that Wonder Woman is actually invisible as well as she sits inside the plane, and we were just shown Wonder Woman in the cartoon so we would know it was her up there. I hope this is true. But I doubt it.
Stumbled upon an amazing piece of writing from an apparently defunct webmag, Razor, which says many things eloquently and well about the state of our consumerist culture. Just what you need to take your mind off that Visa bill. Enjoy.
Bonus link: Adbusters
Synonyms of the day:
Abstruse and recondite.
(although Gurunet has stupidly changed its name to Atomica, it’s still the best online dictionary, thesaurus, search engine, weather and a bunch of other stuff instant access net program there is. Useful for the above.)
So outgoing Sen. John Ashcroft, who lost his last election to a dead man, is Dubya’s choice for Attorney General. He’s given the commencement address at Bob Jones University, hailed Confederate generals in Southern Partisan magazine, and opposes any federal funding for drug treatment. We’re in for a wild ride.
I guess there in fact are uses for the military-industrial complex that I can support after all.
BONUS: Homer Simpson lists the reindeer
“Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Nixon….Comet, Cupid, Donna Dixon.”
Sad but true quote of the day
After running frightening video of Dubya struggling to get even one sentence uttered, Jon Stewart of The Daily Show said with amazement, “I don’t think I can take four more years of this.” Even the comedians are stunned.
Surrounded by congressional leaders yesterday, the purported President-elect said of his policies, including an agressive tax cut that even Republicans think is too radical,
“If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier…(pause) just so long as I’m the dictator.”
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
I think the winner for Most Egregious Whoring of the Christmas Season Advertisement has to go to Circuit City, which shows a man stuffing the back of a mini-van with Circuit City boxes. The smartly-dressed Circuit City employee helping him with this bounty peers into the van and says with wonderment, “Someone’s going to have a very Happy Holidays!”
Every year I identify more with Charlie Brown and his frustration and anger with the fields of aluminum Christmas trees we all have to wade through during this season.