I don’t know about you folk, but I am truly offended by the way the principals of the Republican Party keep talking to me. As if I were a child, and needed to have someone take care of me, and ‘splain to me why the stove is hot. Perhaps up in the wilds of Alaska that folksy, down-home Sara Palin-speak is regarded as good leadership. Personally, here in the elitist, arugula-eating, Ivy-League Northeast us Effete, Intellectual Snobs prefer our leaders to be, well smarter than us, and not sound like they never graduated middle school.

Yes, I want to make a point for legislators talking to me as if we were equals, not as if I was a necessary evil they had to go through so they can get into power and “fix” things like they ‘oughta be.

Here in my home town we had a mayor that — at a public function — once uttered the phrase “I want to thank all youse people for coming out here today…” I was walking along when I heard this, stopped dead in my tracks, and said out loud (to no one in particular), “Did he just say ‘all yous people’?” The person near me (who wasn’t with me, and I did not know) said, “Yes, he did.” To which I replied, “We so have to get rid of this guy.” The other person concurred.

That is how I feel about Palin and the Reckless Republicans that have put her before us in a blatant attempt to trick us into getting us to vote for them. I’m so afraid that John and Jane Q. Public (Hockey moms and Joe Sixpack) will look at Palin and say, “She’s just like me, I want her to be my leader.” Personally, as smart as I think (know) I am, I am also smart enough to know that I want someone smarter than me to be my leader. Not the guy sitting next to me at a bar.

Frankly, I personally know some very smart people and as impressed with them as I am, I’m not sure that any of them are really up to being either the President or VP, and from what I know about McCain, and Palin, I certainly don’t want either of them anywhere near the Oval Office either.

Now, before my blood pressure really shoots through the roof. I want my personal Guru, Jon Stewart, to help us put the Vice Presidential debate into perspective. Jon…

Ahhh, that and the Killian’s Irish Red, and Jack Daniels boiler-maker I just downed during that vid have helped calm me down a bit. Oh hell, I think I’ll have another and watch it it again! (OK, maybe I am Joe Sixpack a little bit, but I swear these people are doing it to me!)

The Perfessor

If you don’t know who Michael Palin is, then you are either a child, or have simply never seen Monty Python’s Flying Circus. Personally I feel that I’ve been watching these guys since High School (probably because I have).

Anyways, while you all might poo-poo the idea of Michael Palin for president (he is, after all, a British Citizen), I counter that just gives him additional international experience (that, plus the fact that he is a world traveler). Think I’m wrong? Well then watch the following Vid.

For more on Palin’s Presidency bid (Michael, not Sara), go here, and remember, silly is as silly does.

The Perfessor

Well, not only was Governor Palin lampooned on SNL once again by Tina Fey, but this time with her own words. Seriously, you have to follow the above link to get to the Youtube video (for some reason it didn’t allow for embedding). The full clip can be seen here on NBC/Saturdaynight live’s site.

What really makes this work is the fact that the real news media is yucking it up over the SNL sketch. Here is Wolf Blitzer weighing in on the clip:

Still, even SNL can’t hold a candle to what the rank and file of the Blogisphere is doing to this national joke. Think I’m kidding? then just take a gander at this very funny (if a tad scatological) YouTube video that my darling wife turned me on to juat last night.

It is a real hoot!

This stuff just gets better and better.

The Perfessor

Provocative filmmaker Michael Moore, Fahrenheit 9/11 and Sicko, just released a new film this past Tuesday (in honor of The Perfessor’s Birthday). However, you will not be able to find Slacker Uprising at any theater, nope, because the film is only available online as a free download (you can also purchase the DVD for $9.95).

Apparently, Moore indicated that the rather unorthodox delivery of the film is a gift to all of his fans; as well as a rallying cry for the upcoming election.

“At times there’s nothing wrong with preaching to the choir,” he said in a telephone interview from his office in Traverse City, Mich. Liberals have been “pretty beaten down over the last 28 years.”

“The choir, especially on our side of the political fence, is often fairly dejected,” he observed, “and could use a good song every now and then.”

This stuff gets more interesting every day.

The Perfessor

Tonight, Comedy Central’s fake news program The Daily Show (followed by The Colbert Report) return to the air after a week off. Prior to the brief vacation, The Daily Show spent two weeks on the road following both the Democratic and Republican conventions. Before we see where they go next, I just wanted to post these clips from The Daily Show’s last couple of days of original episodes before their break.

Then there is this one of McCain’s acceptance speech:

Jon Stewart is so the man!

The Perfessor

When I tell you that I love Jon Stewart, I want you all to know that I mean it in a totally platonic, adult male, admire-from-afar, totally non-sexual sort of way. Anyone who spends a week or so watching his Daily Show on Comedy Central can fully understand why more and more people are getting their news from him, rather than the other (let’s call them “real” news networks.

Last night, during the show’s coverage of the Republican National Convention, he (let’s say “caught”) a number of high-ranking Republican talking heads talking out of both sides of their mouths. (sound required.)

You seriously have to love this guy’s insights into the political machine — and yeah — I know that he too has a spin that he puts to the news, but it is one that strips down the hype of others, and (assuming that the media is an advocate for the populace) finds its way to the truth that we should have heard from the news media in the first place.

Oh yeah, in regards to “Papa Bear” O’Reily’s comments about the government “Not having to support” the child (specifically the impending grandchild of Governor Palin), he carefully forgets to mention that as Palin’s husband is Inuit, and native Alaskan, he (and all of his descendants — including the bun in daughter, Bristol) are all entitled to a monthly stipend. Now I don’t know if this payment comes from the State or the Feds, but in either case — at least in this instance — the government is paying (at least in part) for the baby.

As for Stewart’s description of Dick Morris. Simply Perfect.

The Perfessor

We have met 1984, and it is us!

More to the point. We think that our government is spying on us. We believe that Microsoft is the Evil Empire, but it is interesting (and unsettling) to learn that it is really Google that is watching our every move.

Whatever you do, you don’t want to be nabbed by Google’s street view cameras, as you never know what they will find. Sure sure they could spot that your house is on fire.

Or perhaps it is just that you got hammered, and then passed out on your front lawn.

When Google expanded its Maps product to include a StreetView feature, many claimed the cars that troll the streets to create the experience were breaching their privacy, filming at any random moment.

Yep, both of these things were actually snagged by Google and will appear on your street view of those particular neighborhoods.

Hummm, think I can get Google to check in on that cute co-ed who likes to change with the drapes open?

The Perfessor