It is just past midnight. As long as my blog is finished by 1 a.m. it counts for the preceding day’s date without any fancy backdating, which I’m not above doing in an emergency. but tomorrow is Thursday, the one day of the week when I have to wake up seriously early, 5:30, so I just need to write any old thing.
I can’t go into any detail about Obama’s State of the Union address because I didn’t actually listen to it, and from all reports there were no surprises. A few platitudes, a few modest proposals, some shameless pandering, and a totally disproportionate and hysterical response from the right. Hysterical: that word has two meanings, but their reaction was both symptomatic of hysteria and highly comical, so both fit. There was the congressman from Staten Island who threatened to throw a reporter over a balcony because he asked a question the congressman didn’t like, which was something along the lines of “Are you as big a crook as people are saying you are?” There was the congressman on Rachel Maddow, who seemed to think Barack Obama doesn’t actually have any legal authority to be president.
I’m not a huge fan of Andy Borowitz, who writes for the New Yorker, he reminds me a lot of Art Buchwald, who I also thought was over-rated, but he hit the nail on the head with this article, about how Obama’s call to end tragedies angered pro-tragedy Republicans.
Well, I’ll be darned. There’s my 250 words. Have a nice night, everybody.
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