I wonder if the writers of those shows take some cues from "the more serious takes" you mention. It is hard to imagine those guys nail neocons so well, so often, without some help. If so, then by proxy our favorite writers are indeed getting more play than anyone realizes.

Orbitboy - fresh air can blow east and west; north and south. ;-)

-- Bryan Hayward

Wouldn't surprise me. Take Glenn's sarcasm (for those who get it) and add Stewart's visuals and you get a pretty superior product.

Allowing, aherm, 'foul' air on Fresh Air - another example of political appointees bringing 'Fair and Balanced' to a public radio station near you.

"Tweety just quickly sketches out a script pulled straight out of his imagination and enthusiastically projects it onto a few fragments of fact that seem to support it. And his guests, invariably co-opted fellow travellers hip to the exercise, take Tweety's ball of goo and run with it."

Don't be so coy. As your description of Tweedy's product so clearly illustrates, he is getting his ideas from some other part of his anatomy than his 'imagination'. ;->

Thank you for bringing "Being There" to our attention. I am quite sure that I am not as well-read as many of Glenn's commenters, but I am working on changing that, and suggestions like yours are aiding me in this pursuit.

Thank you for the additional recommendations. We need more hours in the day for reading all the good books. I could read 36 hours per day and not be satisfied.

I'm reading Glenn's book now. I will take it into the garden so that I can smell the lilies, eat a thumb-sized blackberry and munch on the ripest tomato and basil while I try to understand what makes the Manichean folks tick. I too find inspiration and hope here. Have you ever made blackberry wine? I think it would go well with all the wisdom we find in Glenn's writing.

"So that means that for a couple of hours over the weekend,

George W. Bush was technically the President of the United States.

-- ondelette"

Not sure how long they would have actually had his "heart" stopped (had to use quotes since I'm fairly convinced that no such organ exists in Dick Cheney's body), but I'm pretty sure it wasn't as long as you suggest. Nevertheless, it probably "felt" like it was that long to W.

Real Men don't go to the UN, they snort amphetamines with male prostitutes.

-- ondelette

Real men don't negotiate with 'evil' countries, they wear diapers while consorting with female prostitutes (the Daddy party finally realizing Mommy's worth??).

Word on the rest of your argument for international policing as well. We wasted a huge opportunity after 9/11.

LWM has said...

nasty words to the ladies.

-- bebop-o

Indeed. I wonder what he calls his, aherm, 'disagreements' with Bucky? I hesitate to make suggestions. ;->

Personally, I learn something from almost every comment here no matter the situation. I wish I were as eloquent as KB4Hire in expressing how valuable I find this comments section but wishes aren't words. So I lurk and read and laugh and ponder and, hopefully, grow.

If he prescribes a drug, for instance, that is not duly approved by the FDA for that purpose, he can be fined, jailed, lose his license, etc. -- saintlucid

Actually, physicians do this a lot. It's called 'off-label' prescribing. It is, however, illegal for drug companies to promote off-label usage.

...got to this first. Sorry to be repetitive.

The pot smokers I'm aquainted with, and they're not all liberals by any means, are definitely smart enough to know better than to use a perfectly good joint for a q-tip. You'd think anyone who's been on a 'Million-Year Picnic' would be a bit more informed about the proper uses of grass.

Loved the zing in your reply Prunes, but why compliment the trolls? Most of the men in my life think that a 'little pussy' is a good thing. Call him what he really is, a whiny-ass, puling coward. ;->

Listening to Giuliani probably makes him swoon. We should pity these people except their ignorance has been much too enabling.

are correct about MYP. My satire detector needs to go to the shop for an adjustment. 'Course it was never very accurate to begin with.

However, I still stand by my assertion that the word 'puusy' should not be employed as an epithet. It simply squanders the value...

"on May 6 of 2002 the Bush administration officially nullified the Clinton administration’s signature of the Rome Statute"-- amacqueen

It's surprising that it took them this long to renege given the fact that they'd been planning to invade Iraq since before Bush's inauguration (I think they all swore their oaths of office on a copy of a PNAC strategic goals paper that someone substituted at the last minute). They are fully aware of the legal implications of their actions and the amount of destruction they have wrought to the structures that could bring about their potential accountability is stunning. What they could, they have destroyed. Where destruction has been unsuccessful, they obfuscate and sabotage. When deception or outright lying doesn't work, they ignore. Their paeons to 'accountability' went down the same crapper as their 'Compassionate Conservative' turds the moment the Supreme Court crowned W King....er, Presnit.