[In a fit of nostalgia (and laziness), I’m marking my remaining days here on HA by posting links to some of my favorite and most influential posts. If you have favorites you’d like to see, please let me know.]
04/25/2008: Goldy’s Adventures in Muniland
I crashed the Municipal League’s 2008 Civic Awards last night at the Olympic Sculpture Park, where my friend and colleague David Postman was being honored for “Governmental News Reporting of the Year.” Knowing that Postman’s bosses at the Seattle Times had forbade him from accepting the award in person so as not to compromise his impartiality—and unencumbered by these (or any) ethical burdens of my own—I realized that there must be an unused name tag at the registration table with at least half my name on it… and sure enough I managed to sign in as Postman, no questions asked.
His “Honoree” name tag firmly pinned to my lapel and a surfeit of free drink tickets in hand, I strolled into the PACCAR Pavilion determined to do Postman proud by mingling with our city’s power elite on his behalf. As it turned out, I would need the drink tickets.
I don’t do nearly enough straight satire here on HA, but this was certainly one of my best. Read the whole thing.
Oh, this was brilliant! I was going to request a rerun of the epic poem about the cat (if memory serves), also from the creative department.
The world needs more Goldy satire and less wingnut tripe.
One of the most serious crimes against humanity perpetrated by Republicans is those bastards have no sense of humor.
@ # RR
A lack of a sense of humor, or a perception of humor in inappropriate situations are a primary indicator of Congenital Syphilis and Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
One thing I’ve always noticed is the incredible number of alcoholics among the “conservatives” that I’ve known over the years. Alcohol does incredible physical damage to the brain, the effects of that physical damage shorten the number of cognitive steps the mind takes to draw a conclusion, simply because the intervening neurosynaptic connectors have been killed off by the neurological poison that is alcohol. This means that fewer steps are taken when the brain is processing input.
Couple that with prenatal exposure to mutagenic Prions, Viruses or even Bacteria such as syphilis and you get a low level of awareness, and an inability to quickly process information. What Neuropsychiatrists call a low “State of Arousal”. This is congenital. The damage can recur over several generations, even if the original mutagenic influence occurs many generations previously.
Highly “conservative” or reactionary attitudes are generally a result of perceptions filtered through an abbreviated processing system. To wit, fewer processors are involved in creating the final judgment of a given situation or informational influence.
# 4: So that’s why, when you explain to a Republican the difference between actual facts and the rantings of Rush or Glenn Beck, they just give you a vacant stare and mumble “huh?”