Monday, March 15, 2010

Lightning Round - 031510

Never enough time and always so much to say:

-- Even though he manages the hated White Sox, you gotta love Ozzie Guillen, who was an intelligent and fearless ballplayer and has been a really fun adversary as a manager. Ozzie doesn't much like Sean Penn, apparently (H/T to Instapundit):


The outspoken White Sox manager called Penn a “payaso” (clown) and “izquierdista
estupido” (stupid leftist) on Twitter Friday for his praise of controversial Venezuela President Hugo Chavez.
“Oh my God, Sean Penn defended our President Hugo Chavez,” Guillen, a Venezuela native, tweeted. “That’s easy when you [don't] live in Venezuela and have money. LOL…shame on [you].”

I am amused.

-- I'm sure glad that the Congress has been heading the call of the citizenry and listening to their impassioned pleas on Obamacare. They now have a working bill that's 2,309 pages long. That makes Atlas Shrugged look like a pamphlet.

-- I don't know what's worse: that David Axelrod is a ridiculous buffoon, or that my alma mater has selected Axelrod to be the speaker at this year's commencement. Check out this howler from the press release:

A political idealist who has played a critical role in American politics for a quarter century, Axelrod served as senior advisor to the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition and chief strategist and media advisor for the 2008 Obama campaign. Following the campaign, the President named him to his current post.

A political idealist, huh? I worked in the Beloit College public relations office 25 years ago and I'll say this much: I don't think I ever had to write anything that transparently ludicrous.

2 comments:

Gino said...

he is an idealist. he believes in defending and propogating the current administration, just as he's doing. this is his ideal.

not all political 'ideals' are actually ideas as much as they politics.

and beloit probably shares the same ideal.

Mr. D said...

he is an idealist. he believes in defending and propogating the current administration, just as he's doing. this is his ideal.

What ever his ideal might be, you'd be hard pressed to find a more cynical operator than David Axelrod. He's an idealist in the same way Machiavelli was.

and beloit probably shares the same ideal.

Much to my chagrin.