And then click on the link (at the top of his page) labeled "And the Republican Ticket" to see the best anti-Bush rant ever. For instance:

And what about North Korea? "I loathe Kim Jong Il!" What are you, two years old? Nobody likes Kim Jong Il, he's a fucking maniac, but what's your point? It is your job, as President, to do a little thinking about things beyond the level of 'starving people is wrong and I hate it,' beyond the level of being the national id.

How do they say it these days? Northrup ROCKS, he RULES!

After looking at the Republican ticket page, and the comments there, I've gotta say I still don't understand why right-wingers get so exercised about Clinton getting blow jobs in the White House. Where should the President get blow jobs, anyway?

Um, wherever the lobbyists offering them suggest? (As for vice-presidents: The Undisclosed Location. be sure to wear shoes.)

To answer your question, bringing up blow jobs and stained dresses is a great "so there!" move. If the other guy's president got a blow job, they discussion is over; you're off the hook for defending your president.

I just don't see why that's such a trumping argument - I mean, are we a nation of Bill Bennetts now?

Don't answer that.

I'm not suggesting it's a VALID argument, Dan. It's a [imagine me talking like Myer's Church Lady]Convenient[/imagine me talking like Myer's Church Lady] one.

And, no, it doesn't matter that an awful lot of GOP notables turned out to have been cheatin' wonders themselves. If you've worked up a good head of outrage and self-righteousness, all you need is a good talking point; logic and consistency matters go out the window.

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Um, this Northrup guy rocks. He needs his own damn TV show.

[pedant] Carvey's Church Lady. [/pedant]

To summarize my comments there: more blowjobs, less destruction of the American way of life.

A new thought: are not blowjobs quintessentially American? I have heard that the French call blowjobs le vice Americain, not that I take their word for it. I have seen porn from Eastern Europe, and believe you me, they're more likely to beat us at baseball.

"Why, if we have to give up the Great American Blowjob, the terrorists have already--" BANG!

[crumplecrumple. slump]

"le vice Americain"

Symmetry at work. Reading old 8-page porno comics shows that some segment of the American public was referring to the act as "Frenching" in the 30s or 40s, and a quick check of my slang dictionaries reveals that I have temporarily misplaced my slang dictionaries.

I still remember Dick Cavett on PBS talking about how Syphillis was called "the French disease" by the English, and "the English disease" by the French. "Different names for what I like to call 'Johnny Carson's Disease," said Cavett, whose nighttime talk show had recently been pushed out of the ratings.

I'm not sure I believe "le vice Americain" -- a Frenchwoman was quoted during that mess that as far as her compatriots were concerned everything that had been alleged was not sex but foreplay. I've also run across "gamahouche", which sounds French and appears in modern books set in Victorian times.

In my ruder moments I've argued that the Republicans think they can do anything to the rest of the country as long as they keep their literal zippers closed....

Chip, thanks! I finally got a joke from an early 70s National Lampoon. (Quasi-early 60s pictorial: "Gamma Hutch: the Playboy Fallout Shelter.)

I don't know what's better: finally getting a joke I knew I didn't get, or seeing a joke I didn't even realize was there. Much obliged.