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The Spitting Image, Captain of the Hosts Edition (posted 20 January 2008)
What is it that unnerves me so much about the media’s duly-appointed Presumptive Republican Front-Runner, Senator John McCain? Is it the rampaging militarism? The austerely fascist aesthetic of his campaign materials? The newsmedia’s idiotic enthusiasm for any politician who can, in some sense or another, be packaged as a straight talker,
without consideration for what the content of the straight talk
might be? (So he says, with some conviction, that we ought to bomb the world. Great.)
Well, yes, yes, and yes, but there’s something that runs deeper, too. Just something about him, a certain I-know-not-what about the way he holds himself, and the way he talks, and the way he rallies his troops, that I can’t quite put words to. Where have I seen this before? Oh, wait…
Yeah, that’s it.
Happy Christmas (posted 25 December 2007)
Happy holidays, y’all. I hope that yours are full of light, and warmth, and fellowship.
(Photoshopping thanks to lowercase liberty 2005-12-25.)
The Spitting Image, Only Funny If You Liked the Same Movies as Me in High School Edition (posted 19 February 2006)
What is it that so unsettles me about Alberto Gonzales? Is it the coziness with torture and indifference to minimal norms of civilization? Or is it the haughty and contemptuous defense of Caesarian executive power? The rapid turns he routinely makes between dissembling, palavering, and baring the sharpened fangs in a grin or a snarl?
Yes, of course that all worries me. But there’s something else, a certain I-cannot-say-what. It’s in the hair, the eyes, the posture, the facial expression, the shape of the head… I’ve seen it before. But where? Oh, yeah.
I’m just sayin’.
(No personal jabs at Ron Perlman intended, by the way—if you don’t recognize the film and the character from the still, this almost certainly won’t be funny to you, but for the record, it’s from The Last Supper (1995). Just so you know.)
The Spitting Image, Christmas cheer edition (posted 25 December 2005)
Happy Christmas, everyone.
The Spitting Image, “They Walk Among Us” edition (posted 19 August 2005)
I have shocking news to convey. The disturbing truth about the papacy of Benedict XVI was only the beginning. New photographic evidence from Rox Populi 2005-08-19 has shown unmistakably that this reaches to the very highest levels, not only of the Church, but also of the State:
The raftsmen little suspected what terrible cargo they carried down the valley…
Coffins! Coffins filled with earth!
The ship of death has a new captain.
It would explain a lot, wouldn’t it?
