Seems that Chipotle restaurants are doing their part to Get Out the Vote (sort of). Buy a burrito on October 31st, keep your receipt, and you can get a
FREE burrito on Tuesday, Nov. 2nd (election day). Hey, whatever it takes, but for heaven's sake, VOTE!
Thanks to Rebecca on the Chatty list.
Cuz he still 'gets it'. From an article at
CNN.com:
Smothers said he's frequently approached by people who ask him whether he wishes he were on television now because he could say anything he wanted.
"They seem to miss it," he said. "The dirty words are flowing, the sex is flowing and the violence, but there certainly is no social comment, except for the corners of the television spectrum, which is Jon Stewart and Bill Maher. Not in prime time."
The pressure not to offend politically is much worse now, he said.
"People are afraid," he said. "I'm even nervous now."
Maher and Michael Moore "are my heroes," he said. "At one time, in people's eyes, that's what I was doing."
If only he wasn't a Nader supporter. Sigh.
Just got this joke via email from my buddy Todd. A little light political humor:
How many members of the Bush Administration are needed to change a light bulb?
1. one to deny that a light bulb needs to be changed,
2. one to attack the patriotism of anyone who says the light bulb needs to be changed,
3. one to blame Clinton for burning out the light bulb,
4. one to tell the nations of the world that they are either for changing the light bulb your way or for living in darkness,
5. one to give a billion dollar no-bid contract to Halliburton for the new light bulb,
6. one to arrange a photograph of Bush, dressed as a janitor, standing on a step ladder under the banner: Light bulb Change Accomplished,
7. one administration insider to resign and write a book documenting in detail how Bush was literally in the dark,
8. one to viciously smear #7%2,
9. one surrogate to campaign on TV and at rallies on how George Bush has had a strong light-bulb-changing policy all along,
10. and finally one to confuse Americans about the difference between screwing a light bulb and screwing the country.
I think they forgot: claiming that the billion-dollar light bulb monopoly needs a massive tax break; declaring that to change a light bulb is to be with God/freedom/democracy, whether the lightbulb wanted to be changed or not; and creating a new Amendment to keep same-wattage light bulbs from lighting up together.
We've all heard about the
harassment suit against Bill O'Reilly. Well, it seems that's not enough for this blowhard. Seems he has to make a
conspiracy where there is none by accusing Al Franken:
O'Reilly, obsessed with his left-wing mirror image and nemesis Al Franken, also posits that Franken is somehow behind the charges. However, Franken said on his own show that he takes no joy in the allegations against his conservative rival.
Give it up, Bill. On the other hand, it might sell a few more of your new kids advice books, even if you've
decided to not do a book tour<%/a>: "Because of the intense media scrutiny Mr. O'Reilly is currently facing, he and HarperCollins have jointly decided to postpone the final media interviews planned to promote 'The O'Reilly Factor for Kids,' " the publisher said in a statement. "We hope hope to resume the book promotion with Mr. O'Reilly at a later date and we wish him well during this difficult time," it said.
I'm sure HarperCollins is fuming.
I think Aaron McGruder of Boondocks has it right.
