Only 5,702,400 seconds left until election day, give or take a few hundred, and the suspense is... well, the suspense is leaving me feeling like a chipmunk trapped under a log by a weasel with a craving for fresh chipmunk meat. It’s a problem of timing, when you think about it. The weasel can’t get at you and eventually will wander off seeking some other creature to devour. But weasels are sly devils. What if it only pretends to wander off? Or what if you can’t hear it, and you stay there forever, and then you die of hunger?
But I digress. Remember in Jurassic Park when old what’s-his-name talks about his flea circus? No? Well, then stop reading and go somewhere else, kid, you’re bothering me. Anyway, I was thinking about politicians and that story popped into my head like a hollow-point 45 bullet. (I really shouldn’t use gun analogies; I have no idea if that’s right or not, but you should get the point.) Kaboom! (There, that’s better.)
Kids would tell their mommies, “Oh, look mommy, can you see the flea on the trapeze?” Except there weren’t any fleas. It was all smoke and magic. So the guy, you know, British actor, very famous, in The Great Escape, decides to build real dinosaurs.
Stay with me. I think I may be taking this someplace interesting.
Politicians. Invisible fleas. What if there really aren’t any politicians? What if, just like, oh hell, I’ll call him Moe, in Jurassic Park, someone constructed this elaborate circus called Politicalville with buildings and monuments in every city, town, and village in America, and then rigged it to make it look like things were happening. But ‘tis all an illusion. Bush, Hillary, Rummy... the whole lot of them down to the local dog catcher in Tuscaloosa... they don’t exist. Things happen, and, pea brains that we are, we buy into the illusion.
Wow. Then Bush couldn’t have stolen the election in Florida in Ohio because there is no Bush.
Article comments
1 - Peter J
I was going to laugh Mark, really laugh, out loud, (except when I do that at the computer my wife thinks I'm on a sex site and makes me go to bed without dinner).
It most def would be nice to not have to look at those twitchy faces any more, especially if they all imploded while speaking on tv. Now, that would really be funny (remember when Dean lost Iowa?)
Imagine what it was like before tv. People had to actually read or listen to a candidate. The most they had to put up with was a picture (probably all touched up or of someone else who actually looked trusworthy.
Anything that can crack a smile is GOOD for all.
2 - gonzo marx
damn... you mean i can't use fleas anymore?
you know how tough it's gonna be to actually clone those bastards????
much less actually building DC...
yeah.. in Reality, right now it's all just papier mache'
oh well, back to the evil Galactic Overlord drawing board
heh
Excelsior?