Reality TV blows.

[kv0925]

Well, most of it. The wife and I rarely miss America's Funniest Home Videos, because you just cannot see enough of stupid people getting hit about the head and crotch. And now and then I flip over to World's Wildest Police Videos after work, because I just like that stuff. :) But as for all the fabrications that pass for 'reality', no thanks. But this.. this I gotta see! Mr. T as a 'motivational guru'? Yes please! :) And that headline is totally a ripoff from The Onion, "Mr. T to pity fool." But still, brilliant!

Speaking of The Onion and brilliant.. U.S. Holds Going-Out-of-Business Sale. Sometimes I wonder how close we really are to that point, and I can absolutely picture this:

"Get yourself a piece of history, or just stock up on your favorite items—whatever it is, chances are we've got it," said Bush, wearing a 10-gallon hat and standing before a chroma-key background of the National Mall as a list of federal items and their discounted prices scrolled down the screen. "But act fast, because deals like these will not last."

Okay, must get to work now.

Comments

[thegameiam.livejournal.com]

funny image, but we're a ways away: we're one of the small number of countries which are a net food exporter, not importer...

[cp.livejournal.com]

True, and that's a good thing. But in every other category the trade deficit is downright scary. And that's almost beside the point for me--we're still paying for the Spanish-American War (http://www.newsnet5.com/money/6180216/detail.html) (tongue firmly in cheek here, admittedly), and racking up unheard-of budget deficits and national debt to finance our current boondoggle, which my daughter and her children and their children will *still* be paying for.. Now Iran's getting testy and we're starting up the tough talk again, even though our military is already overextended..

I don't know that the United States could ever really go bankrupt and insolvent and all that, but to me it goes without saying that if the U.S. were a business, it would have finally been run into the ground by this administration.

[thegameiam.livejournal.com]

Heck, if the US were a business, we would have gone bankrupt long, long ago...

I think if things ever got too bad, we're one of the small number of countries who could actually roll up the borders and go home. We'd miss our awesome flat-screens and laptops manufactured overseas, but we still have oodles of manufacturing capacity and a well-educated populace who could be put to work building stuff. Other countries would be working much harder to avoid basic starvation. We're pretty invasion-proof (red dawn notwithstanding), so that's not a real fear (the oceans are a wonderful thing...)