Archive of Articles in the "Humor" Category
D'oh! House GOP Website Pirates Simpsons Images?
[Mayor "Diamond" Joe Quimby and tycoon C. Montgomery Burns]
You may well wonder why I, a (mostly) serious political analyst, begin my weekly Wednesday column with the images of two Simpsons characters. The answer is: these two images are the story. More on that in a bit.
Halloween Comes Early For Republicans
Boo!!
Halloween has apparently come early in Republican-land. The Republican National Committee's website today unveiled a prominent link to their new "Scariest Democrat" page. You can go to the page and vote from among six of the Democratic presidential candidates (with sound effects!). Missing are Kucinich and Gravel, which seems odd as Kucinich should definitely be in the running for the candidate to scare Republicans the most.
Out of the other six, guess who is currently polling at 91% of the vote? No real surprise....
Words Fail Me
The Republicans today unveiled their logo for their 2008 convention, to be held in Minneapolis/St.Paul, Minnesota. Here is what they chose:
As I said, words just fail me. So I leave it up to you to comment on what exactly that elephant is doing.