Kriplekistan

The artist of the New Yorker's newest, and clearly most dubious cover, Barry Blitt has defended his recent work as "satire" on what he feels have been attacks on the Obama camp. Yeah umm....that seems to pose a problem with liberals and their take on satire, as anyone who has watched an episode of the Simpsons from 2001 and on has noticed, satire is at its best when used with subtlety, a lesson most liberal satirists desperately need.

For the edification of all those out there in the blogosphere, Barack Obama does not speak any language indigenous to Continental Europe.

O! say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming. Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming. And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave Over the land of the free, and the home of the brave!

Due in part to the lack of productivity on this blog for the month of June (Summer Vacation people!), there will be a double entry tonight featuring 2 worthy entities deserving their status as a drain on the homo sapien species. First. General Wes Clark, not much can be said. The man goes on national TV and complains that John McCain's service as the leader of his naval squadron over Vietnam, in which he was shot down over enemy territory, and refused early release from the most notorious prison in North Vietnam, doesn't render him as a qualified candidate for President because he lacks "executive experience." Immediately after, Clark lauds Barack Obama's qualifications for the top spot because of the Illinois Senator's "judgement." Second. If the aforementioned isn't enough to boggle the mind with baffling amounts of incompetence on the part of a man who clearly doesn't understand logic, here is something which will truly defy all reason....