Some Words

So David Brooks pumps out the crazy and gets smacked the fuck down. Balance is restored to the world. But does anyone but me remember the speech he made to a Young Republican group last year that was broadcast on C-Span? I mean, I feel really dorky admiting that I was watching C-Span for more than the two seconds it takes to get past it while channel surfing. But one day, I don’t remember why, I stopped there. David was there, playing the usual role of Republican apologist in chief. He was going into the usual stuff about the ‘burbs growing and feeding the Republican machine.

That’s when things got sureal for me. He stood on the podium and basically said that the Republicans had screwed a bunch of stuff up. Then he said something that amazed me, and I’m paraphrasing here, I would give anything for the actual text, it was the gold standard of ‘what are you thining.’ He said that Republicans had shown themselves to be bad at governing, but it was ok, because the demographics were set for them to continue getting elected. Now, I’m probably crazy, because I’ve been taking hippy drugs here at work all day, but if you say that you’re bad at governing, maybe the solution is not to govern? Play to your strenghts man! He said Dems were good at governing (ish, again, I’m paraphrasing here, he probably weaseled around on it more) but the Republicans were better at getting elected. There is an obvious solution here.

Republicans should be campaign managers and let the Dems to the governing. Hey, I didn’t say it. I just twisted a half remembered speech by David Brooks into saying it.

Via Boing Boing comes a list of 20 great Japanese adds.

Ah, but it does not have the ad that an old friend who went to Japan told me about. It’s about a toilet bowl that has a tab of cleaner dropped into it. It’s so happy that it breaks free and rolls through the streets of Tokyo proclaiming its joy. Sadly you tube does not seem to have it. Searching for ‘happy toilet’ gets mostly people puking on their birthday. Happy toilet to you all.

Aislinn gets it right on the subjecto of Snakes on a Plane. Half the people I know, if asked how much illicitly acquired data they go through in a day would have to give the answer in gigs. I think Tycho once used the phrase “bathing in a sea of illegal data,” but I’m too lazy to look it up. Indeed, I would say that illegal data downloads were the porn of our day, (cheap, easy, often of dubious quality) if not for the fact that 80% of it is probably actually porn. Indeed, the net seems to only support two enterprises right now, porn and T-Shirt companies.