September 17, 2009
10 Things Joe Wilson Could Have Said
and not gotten into so much trouble.
Did he call President Obama a liar? No. He said that what Obama said was a lie. A distinction, yes, but some would say a distinction without a difference.
So, to avoid future plunges into the quicksand of honesty and avoid being called a racist, a Confederatist, a negativist and the owner of a bad haircut, here are ten alternate ways he could have yelled out the truth about Obama’s health care lies.
September 11, 2009
MAN ON WIRE
Just saw again James Marsh’s wonderful documentary Man On Wire, about Phillipe Petit’s extraordinary wirewalk thirty-four years ago between the two rooftops of the now destroyed twin towers of the World Trade Center. Petit, France’s busking performer/provacateur, had been obsessed by the towers from the moment he read that they would be built. The film details the meticulous and sometimes haphazard preparations leading up to Petit’s jaunty trek on August 7th, 1974.
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