Day: May 11, 2005

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Drive by posting: Oh! the humanity of it all!

Evolution just ain’t what it’s cracked up to be…
 
Slithery Reptile last week and Adorable Rodent this week.  I am not pleased.  I do NOT want to be an Adorable Rodent! If anything, I want to be a Wascally Wabbit!  What is wrong with this Ecosystem?!?
 
*sigh*
 
[Updated: Well, I guess N.Z. Bear heard my plea.  I’ve slid back down the evolutionary ladder to Flappy Bird.  MUCH better than being an Adorable anything. When someone looks at me, if they see “adorable” instead of ROUS (gratuitous Princess Bride reference) or thinking “That’s one mean rodent” (Gratuitous Monty Python “Search for the Holy Grail” reference) then I’ve failed in one of my life’s goals.
 
 
[Updated yet again: the silly N.S. Bear ecosystem has bumped me back to the place where the script says “I’m a [sic] Adorable Rodent… ” Blech. Labeling me “adorable” and then the error with the article… Well, those who know me will just have to think of me as “One mean R(OUS),” and go on their merry way.
 
Right.]
 
 
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A “True Story”

Well, as likely as any on the front pages of the NYT
 
Hillary Visits an Elementary School
  
 
So, like, Hillary Clinton goes to an elementary school in New York to talk  about the world. After her talk she offers question time.
 
One little boy puts up his hand. The Senator asks him what his  name is.
 
“Kenneth.”
 
“And what is your question, Kenneth?”
 
“I have three questions: First – whatever happened to your medical health care plan?
 
Second – why would you run for President after your husband shamed the office?
 
And, Third – whatever happened to all those things you took when you left the White House?”
 
Just then the bell rings for recess. Hillary Clinton informs the kids that they will continue after recess. When they resume Hillary says, “Okay where were we? Oh, that’s right, question  time. Who has a question?”
 
A different little boy puts his hand up; Hillary points him out and asks him what his name is.
 
“Larry.”
 
“And what is your question, Larry?”
 
“I have five questions: First – whatever happened to your medical health care plan?
 
Second – why would you run for President after your husband shamed the office?
 
Third – whatever happened to all those things you took when you left the White House?
 
Fourth – why did the recess bell go off 20 minutes early?
 
And, Fifth – what happened to Kenneth?
  
[I do not know the source of this little cautionary tale. While I doubt it is literally true, I feel it meets the journalistic standards of the NYT and CBS, so I’m “reporting” it here. Obviously, since it’s already all over the web (example), it simply must either be true or “close enough” for a CBS memo report featuring Dan Blather or a front page report by the NYT. And if it’s good enough to meet their stringent standards for reportage, I guess it’ll just have to do.]
 
[Update: And no kidding with this update. I’ve gotten some mail about this post that indicates I need to make something clearer: when I said I did not know the source of this tale, I meant it.  I did find other sites that repeat this story (one linked above), but I have found no attribution I could verify, either, so we’re left wondering this: did this information  come from Bill Burkett or some other equally reliable source?  I simply do not know. Do you?  That’s the current state of Mass Media Podperson ethics—”If I think it sounds like something my own biases verify, then it must be true… “—so I guess if I hold myself to their standards, it’s perfectly fine.]