OT Snark

[whometense]

Alex Beam in yesterday's Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2006/09/06/my_motto_i_wanna_be_sedated/

My motto: I wanna be sedated

Perhaps you have seen the ads for ``full sedation dentistry." It's offered all over the country, to people who need dental work but are terrified by the needle and the drill. The patient goes under general anesthesia and wakes up with choppers like George Hamilton. ``You dream, we work," is the slogan of one California-based dental group.

Here is my proposal: ``full sedation citizenship." In my version, a medical clinic will administer long-acting, general anesthesia for as long as it takes to escape the nightmares surrounding us. ``Wake me up when it's over," would be the operative slogan.

Can you imagine it? You take the gas, you wake up, and suddenly there is no . . .

Joe Biden running for president. What do we have to do to discourage candidates like this? Yesterday's man? He's yesteryear's man, some guy who thinks because he appears on ``Meet the Press" in August when the real politicians are on vacation that he is a legitimate presidential candidate.

I know. I could be more charitable. Biden is a senator from Delaware, and coming from the Small Wonder state , as it is called, visits to places like Ames, Iowa, and Laconia, N.H., must seem pretty darned exciting. Biden needs to find a way to campaign without opening his mouth. Desperate for Dixie cred, Biden recently blurted to Fox News: ``You don't know my state. My state was a slave state. My state is a border state. My state has the eighth-largest black population in the country. My state is anything from a Northeast liberal state."

Joe, we can't find your state on the map. We couldn't care less how many African-Americans live there.

Does Biden ever look in a mirror? He must see a graying statesman exuding Founding Fathers-level gravitas. (Didn't he clerk for Gouverneur Morris, or am I just making that up?) I see an old guy with hair plugs, nattering on about nothing. Joe, if I give you $50, will you go away?

:evilgrin:

[beachmom]

1. Oh -- POOR Joe

That was funny. Hey I'll up it to $100 for him to go away. Any takers to increase the sum?

[whometense]

2. I'm in.

$100 seems like a bargain to me.

[karynnj]

3. It actually made me feel a little sorry for him

It should give him a clue that his litlle quirks don't go unnoticed.

[wisteria]

5. I'll up the anti. IMO, Biden wants to be president for the wrong reasons.

And, I will add, he goes on the Sunday shows because he likes the attention-period.

[Democrafty]

4. OK, I hate bashing other candidates,

but that's funny. :)

[whometense]

6. I admit I hesitated posting

because I feel the same way. But I think it's funny too, and Biden's bloated ego could use a few puntures.

[Democrafty]

7. Right. My favorite comment was the one about

appearing on Sunday shows in August. Biden keeps propping himself up as the GREATEST. SENATOR. EVER. And that's kind of distasteful, IMHO (not to mention untrue) for a member of a body like the Senate to do.

[whometense]

8. sorry!

:blush: I do know how to spell puncture. Really.