--- Watched a very funny show tonight. This Just In.
And---go figure--- the main character has his own blog.
Brian, it seems, is the 21st Century, Californian equivalent of Archie
Bunker--except for the small fact that Brian is not some cheap Norman
Lear ploy to bring people over to the left by showing just what an
ignorant and intolerant asshat Archie was. (Kinda makes you wonder,
though. How many people watched that show, at the time, thinking that
Archie was right on and that Meathead could go and shove his head in a
grinder? Personally, even though I was a small child at the time, I
thought Meathead was a jerk and that Gloria was an eedjit for hooking
up with him in the first place. I was four and I was already smarter
than Sally Struthers----how cool am I?)
Anyway, Brian's conservative, he's an asshat most of the time, he's
funny, and he'd be proud and vocal about it, provided he could move his
ass off a barstool.
And he's a cartoon character. Brilliant, no? --- Read something in the local paper today that made me chuckle in an evil sort of way.
Mike Hatch, if you're not from here, is the Attorney General for the
State of Minnesota. He ran for the Senate in 2000, before Mark Dayton
threw his megabucks into the race and demolished everyone. I think he
even considered running for givernor in 2002---but the DFL party
decided Roger Moe should get a go at the job. He's stuck with his job
and has been toying with bigger ambitions for years. One of these days
he'll finally get around to realizing them.
In the meantime, he's kept his name in the paper and on the local TV
stations by being litigious. He's sued HMO's. He's gone after Qwest.
He's gone after the tobacco companies. His latest escapade in the world of lawsuits is
to sue the State of North Dakota because they're regulating when
outstaters can go and shoot ducks and pheasants in North Dakota.
Reportedly it violates interstate commerce laws. Apparently, his record
indicates a fair amount of fighting The Man for the average taxpaying
citizen. He's a DFL'er. That's his job. He's supposed to fight THE MAN!
Kinda funny, though, how little respect his offspring have for legal
authorities, isn't it? Even though their father is a legal authority in
his own right. One of his kids actually kicked out the window on a cop
car. That's a fairly impressive feat of dexterity---particularly when
one is handcuffed, no less. Were they just taking their dad's tack and
striking a blow against The Man when they resisted arrest? Apples
generally don't fall to far from the tree, after all.