I enjoy satire. On Aug 12, 2016 1:15 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Todays column excerpt: > > So my friends in Copenhagen are asking, “What’s going on in America that > you got so crazy so suddenly?” Danes take an interest in us because their > country is flat and if our emissions melt Greenland, they’ll have to move > to Norway where the vowels are different and the beer tastes fishy. > > I tell them: the Big Snapper is the result of a longstanding American > dread of meetings. Liberals adore meetings and whenever there is > uncertainty in the air — salmon or salad for dinner? The Woody Allen movie > or the documentary on income inequality? — they plop down with their lattes > and everyone has her or his say, which takes hours and results in a report > that leads to a task force and then a twoyear study. The Snapper is not big > on meetings. Short attention span and superior intelligence: Let’s go. Get > her done. Move on. > > The second reason for his nomination is The Fascination of the > Unthinkable: when the rational fails to satisfy, then why not the > counterintuitive? If your car won’t start and you don’t know why, push it > over a cliff and watch it blow up. If you’re tired of the same old same > old in Washington, why not elect Bob Barker, host of “The Price Is Right”? > It’s like having a walrus in church Sunday morning. The minister tries to > explain the parable of the vineyard and the walrus says, “BLEAUGHHHHHH.” > Which one do you remember for weeks afterward? >
