New at Reason
Scott Stantis travels to the Sunshine state to take notes on a catastrophe and deliver the latest Friday Funny.
Comments to "New at Reason":
BTS | February 1, 2008, 7:00am | #
Man, that's a little on the tasteless side, isn't it. Oh well, not nearly tasteless enough for me to pitch a fit over. Besides, Rudy pretty much brought it upon himself what with every 10th word out of his mouth being "9-11"sarcasm/ | February 1, 2008, 7:06am | #
Are you trying to be hurtful?JOhn C. Randolph | February 1, 2008, 7:14am | #
Speaking of the sunshine state, I think the DEA really wishes that the cops down there had just given this guy back his minivan:http://www.sfbg.com/wire/20.html
I can just imagine the drug warriors trying to uproot the entirety of American agriculture looking for hybrids like this.
-jcr
DavidS | February 1, 2008, 7:18am | #
JCR - that's a great great story. Hope someone at Reason can blog it in full...From the Keystrokes of John Q. Public... | February 1, 2008, 8:26am | #
Mr John C. Randolph,That's too funny! Thank you for posting that up! I am in your debt!
JCR - If any man deserves a Medal of Freedom (a private one, not the Bush award for incompetency above and beyond the call of duty), it is that professor.
Episiarch | February 1, 2008, 8:52am | #
Man, that's a little on the tasteless side, isn't it.If you want 9/11 tastelessness, watch the South Park segment of The Aristocrats. They managed to top themselves, which I didn't think was possible. Great stuff.
P Brooks | February 1, 2008, 9:27am | #
JCR- Great story, thanks"Tasteless" is some fucking martinet clambering over dead bodies trying to obtain a political advantage. I piss on the grave of the Ghoul's Presidential aspirations.
I guess I'll just have to get over watching those 3,000 people die. No biggie.
DavidS | February 1, 2008, 9:48am | #
Tasteless is more palatable when combined with funny - not the case here.I'm surprised by my reaction, but those recognizeable cut-off structural bits on the rubble were really a kick in the pants.
Tasteless is using 9/11 to go to pre-emptive war against a country that had nothing to do with it, while ignoring the mastermind behind the attacks.
Al Federber | February 1, 2008, 10:14am | #
"Tasteless is using 9/11 to go to pre-emptive war against a country that had nothing to do with it, while ignoring the mastermind behind the attacks."-- You mean Dick Cheney, right?
Rule of thumb: anything labeled as "a funny" is likely not funny.
g.ira | February 1, 2008, 1:56pm | #
What the hell. Screw anyone who's amused by that shit. Mock Rudy all you want, but there is no humor to be drawn from 9/11 imagery. I get that the big criticism is his "9/11 milking," but there are less lazy and vile ways of conveying that sentiment.Brian Sorgatz | February 1, 2008, 7:38pm | #
Mock Rudy all you want, but there is no humor to be drawn from 9/11 imagery.Let's lighten up just a little, folks. If Hitler can be funny, anything can.
Brian Sorgatz | February 1, 2008, 7:40pm | #
And to hell with Godwin's Law.Brian Sorgatz | February 2, 2008, 4:42am | #
Have you seen CatsThatLookLikeHitler.com?Francesco Sinibaldi | February 2, 2008, 3:25pm | #
The sun and the blackbird.Like a nightingale
coming back in the
dark I hear a
glimmer escaping
in the twigs of
a quietness, and
finally a martin,
smiling and tender.
Francesco Sinibaldi