Comments on: And Now For Something Completely Different

By: Mic Lawler

Mic Lawler — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 03:35:58 +0000

Ilana, surely it was a slip of the tongue. I'm sure he meant to say the Mao Clinic. Mic Lawler

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:18:51 +0000

Ilana, if anyone failed to see the humor in your column yesterday, they must be dead. It was perhaps one of the funniest pieces I have read in a while.

I wish that I could write with the same humor and clarity that marks your writings. Especially the clarity.

Oh well, some have it, some do not. I fall into the later category.

My union buddies are all in a tither over contract negotiations this year. They are worried that the company is going to make us pay part of our health care premiums. I told one in particular, not to worry…Obamacare will take care of us. What ever happened to “we the people”? Perhaps it should be “we the sheeple”!

By: Stephen Hayes

Stephen Hayes — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:59:17 +0000

Maybe we could apply the EO regulation to politicians. You know, keep the straight ones and throw out the crooked ones. But, how would we know? Well, I mean, how would the rest of you know? I already know. That’s it — I’ll choose and then let you know. I’ll get back to you.

By: Roger Chaillet

Roger Chaillet — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:31:14 +0000

Geithner? The gift that keeps on giving?

Sounds like an STD.

By: Robert Malcom

Robert Malcom — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:03:58 +0000

Almost always enjoy your columns – this is no exception… reminds me of the fiasco of ‘ugly tomatoes’ a few years ago grown here in Florida and attempted to be shipped elsewhere…

By: Stephen Hayes

Stephen Hayes — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:59:24 +0000

Health Care Part Deux: I think Comrade O is selling us the knobbly carrots from Britain. Seems like only in America do we have a vice comrade saying “We have to spend the money so we don’t go bankrupt.” Okay, America and Zimbabwe. Times like this I think of a great exchange on Star Trek between Spock and McCoy: McCoy says he would like to see his own brain waves imprinted on to a computer. Spock says, “So would I, Doctor. The resulting flood of illogic would be most entertaining.”

From Comrades O and B, and their faithful dog, Timothy, we get: The stimulus is working. The economy is getting worse, Unemployment will rise. We on the road to recovery. We have to spend the money or go bankrupt. American bonds are a safe investment. We have to deal with these deficits. We need to pass health care now or never. More stimulus. We fixed the car industry. We fixed the banks. We fixed the election. Somebody buy something, for heavensakes!

All I can think of now is — what about crookneck squash? Can we still get those?

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:24:02 +0000

I was thinking how funny things would be if we were on a different planet merely watching Earth as a sitcom. People have mentioned how A-Jad resembles comedian Bob Denver of Gilligan’s Island and Dobie Gillis. Dick Cheney could have his torture hour with his sidekicks Alfredo Gonzales and John Yoo. Geithner, Bernanke, and Summers would be the Three Stooges of the economy. Sarah gets her hockey mom Supergirl show. But the top rated show will be a revival of the old TV show, “The Millionaire”, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047758/ , where the hero gave away one million dollars – this can be updated to our Trillionaire Messiah who saves auto jobs, makes perfect climate, creates peace, educates illiterates, and solves everyone’s health care in different episodes. Unfortunately, we all have to live in this Twilight Zone and can’t turn off the set!

In honor of the 40th anniversary of the lunar landing, I can think of the lines of poet E. E. Cummings, “We doctors know a hopeless case if — listen: there’s a hell of a good universe next door; let’s go”

By: Ira Newborn

Ira Newborn — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:31:12 +0000

I’m a bit nonplussed (I don’t really know what that means but I see it a lot so I think it’s probably a good thing to throw in once in a while for color; sort of like “as it were”) that there are no czarinas in the government, only czars. In my family, my wife is the Laundry and Shopping Czarina and she lets me be the Garbage and Everything Dangerous Czar. I thought the President and the EO were more evenhanded than they seem to be. Did you know that “czar” comes from “caesar?” Wow! So how come they don’t use other royal titles that are just as good?
How about Methane Emperor or Sludge King or Manufacturing Effluents Queen or Edible Fungus Prince? These titles add variety to these important posts as well as give people a break fro trying to pronounce the difficult letter combination “cz.”

[More please! LOL]

By: John Danforth

John Danforth — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:12:37 +0000

Three cheers for curly cucumbers and knobbly carrots! It’s a victory for vegetables! Freedom at last ….

By: JP Strauss

JP Strauss — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:12:31 +0000

I remember Daniel Hannan also commenting on this absurd regulation. And to think that the Europhiles want us to believe that the EU (okay “EO”) aren’t power-mad control freaks.