Bulletin Board of Bad Behavior

All in today's paper, believe it or not:

Rush Limbaugh is a DRUG ADDICT!!! YESSSS!
(gimme a high five now!)

Tommy Chong of Cheech & Chong is going to prison for 9 months for selling bongs. Courtesy of John Ashcroft of course.

Bush wants to roll back Endangered Species protections, allowing some species to be captured and killed to get money to save the few that are left. This is in line with his reasoning in other areas such as cutting taxes so that the government may spend more, cutting down trees in order to save trees, etc etc etc.

So is Rush officially on the bus now?

even though i like the guy i dont think he deserves to be on the bus just cos he does drugs..

Thank You, Rabbit. Rush wouldn't know the bus if it smacked him in the face...

BTW, Sloth...a very strange thing has occured. The Bulletin Board is no longer the BB of Bad Behavior. It is "Pax Acidus Bulletin Board". Is there any method behind this madness? I don't mind it, it sounds like a great name, but if there's a method, I'm sure we'd all love to hear it.

Mark... I wouldn't worry about. Change is good and there will be plenty more of them.

I was thinking yesterday that we all make fun of Rush... he is such an easy target... but he is rich and has access to opiates and has his own talk show. I would love those three things.

Also, I believe people change and maybe this controversy will change him and let him see the evil errors of his ways.

I am often under the impression when listening to him (many years ago and not a lot of course) that he was acting... that he didn't believe a word he said and he was only playing conservative to piss people off, make people hate him, and get the ratings up.

Well, I just tried to post a whole reply and it didn't work because I didn't know the system has changed for logging in. Considering I'm drunker now than when I started, I'm not too chuffed. Let me see if I can duplicate from my mind what I wrote.

I notice there is a subject field (blank) above me. Not sure how to handle this. I'm only trying to reply to what Sloth wrote about Limbaugh. Again, I am choosing to leave it blank, and let's see if my reply works this time.

Good point, Sloth about the "shock" value of "shock jocks". I was at the bus stop one day and a truck stopped and picked up some yard waste. Out of the truck was blaring a very loud run-of-the-mill conservative "talk" show. It was too loud for me or anyone within a mile radius to ignore, and the host appeared to be saying some controversial thing about working women. I found it disgusting, of course, but I got to thinking: Do these people, which look like a couple of latino manual laborers, really believe in what they're hearing? Or is it just the entertainment value of it,
the insanity, provocativity of it? In short: Does this radio show just help them get through their shifts?

I don't know the answer to that question. I do think Americans are confused about the role of media in society these days. We own the media, they don't own us. I grew up in a time when working class black folks were portrayed in sitcoms on television. I can't understand most of what goes on on television these days. I read some of an article today that mentioned how pathetic it is that all the sitcoms try so desperately to find a euphemism for the word "penis"
for every punchline.

Am I the only one who can see the death of art in the corporate machine?

Just consider the difference between Shakespeare, The Beatles and watching T.V. It's astounding!!

And I was going to add in a new post, how crazy it was to me that The Shins, an excellent and even somewhat groundbreaking indie pop band from New Mexico, accepted a large sum of money from The Gap to allow said corporation to play their music in their ad. The Shins only had ONE album out. On an indie label. They were nobodies. But yet they thought nothing of accepting all this money from a corporation that has been well documented on NPR to have hired teenage girls in third world countries and gave them 16+ hour days in factories for tiny fractions of what the clothes they make actually cost.

I'm in the middle of my second economics course and I finally admit I can actually agree with some of the theory, but those who say the free market takes care of everything are ignorant sons of bitches indeed.

Oh I get it. I have to sign in EVERY time I post. Okay, well, I guess that's the facts of life.

I just wanted to relate a quote I saved from one newspaper this week, an Associated Press article called "President defends Iraq policy, rejects criticism of strategy".

Are you ready? Here is the most amazing Bush quote so far:

" 'If the people don't think I'm doing my job they'll find somebody' else, Bush said. 'That's my attitude,' he told Tribune Broadcasting."

This tells me he will go his grave as ignorant and arrogant as he is today.

Remember his father didn't get a second term.

Skeptics be damned, I'm daring to hope. Too much Sagittarius in my chart.