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February 6, 2006

Big Meeting Up In Omaha

I'll be travelling until the weekend, so no more entries until next week. Please endure. And consider this an "Open Thread." Talk among yourselves.

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To conserve our nation's natural fossil fuels, I am currently sealing potent farts into old coke bottles.

One bottle equals 13 seconds of invaluable lantern light. These babies will come in handy when Russia nukes the east coast, and I'll greedily hoard them all, until a wager to end all wagers is made, and then and only then will I be published.

But until then, it's one more big, beefy burrito down the hatch. A great economic and political commentary seeking partners...will insult liberals for free, but please no Coulter's wanted.

Calm yourself. Inhale. Exhale. It's supposed to read like that. Inhale. And...hold.

Posted by: Will | February 6, 2006 8:57 PM

So every time you come out with a new batch of tour locations, I sigh that you're never closer than Chicago, a not inconsiderable ten hour drive. Now you're under an hour away at my sister city, but you're just being a tease. Lame, Neal, lame.

Posted by: Chris | February 7, 2006 4:34 AM


Standing up to Hootie and the Blowfish in 2006. Can't get more daring than that, precious.

Posted by: Christopher Davis | February 8, 2006 10:24 AM

Then you've probably missed some recent headlines. From CNN, "Bush urges end to cartoon violence" and that Brad and Angelina's baby is being billed as "the sexiest baby in the world." In modern America, Tom & Jerry's days are numbered, but unborn fetuses are sexy. Tell us again why Elijah's excretions are more interesting than satire.

Posted by: Sabra | February 9, 2006 12:01 PM

Cartoon violence indeed. It is time to ask why no one is comparing the fundamentalists protesting the allegedly blasphemous Danish cartoons and the fundamentalists who protested various allegedly blasphemous Disney cartoons. And that's not to mention Marge Simpson and Itchy and Scratchy.

I saw The Aristocrats last night. (Neal, you'd like all the references to excrement and effluvia.) It's time for Clockwork Orange-type viewing in the Deep South and the Middle East. I'm sure that we'd find a few people who want to disembowel Andy Richter for what he "did to his son."

Posted by: the_big_pill | February 10, 2006 10:32 AM

Well, to compare...

Muslim fundamentalists stand behind their gospel which prohibits "graven images" of deity. Such could be construed as a "divine copyright" of sorts.

Christian fundamentalists stand behind some concept of "decency" and the American copyright system.

On balance, I'd say the Muslim fundies outclass our fundies by a stretch, and our fundies seem inexorably tied to money in the end, while not so much with the Muslims.

Interesting comparison at any rate.

KK

Posted by: Kyle King | February 13, 2006 10:55 AM

Basically, it boils down to this: our fundies boycott and make a big stink, but they're not burning down the theaters that show Brokeback Mountain. For the most part, they're just not that fanatical. Doesn't mean they're not creepy as hell, though.

Posted by: Neal Pollack | February 13, 2006 11:40 AM

I guess you're right. To find to domestic fundies who like to burn or bomb buildings or otherwise kill people, one must look beyond those who protest cartoons to those who protest abortion. If those who protest cartoons were to see The Aristocrats, however, I think at least a few of them would beat a path to Andy Richter's door to perpetrate acts of violence upon his cherubic visage.

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