rivercityvibe   “Puerile, smutty, schoolboy nonsense” – My Mom

This is decidedly not a political blog. Though I feel I should point out and mock hypocrisy, sinister manipulation and mass stupidity wherever I find it, I am going to refrain, this time. I am going to limit myself to simply highlighting the funny aspects of the right wing Teabagging Protests taking place today.

For foreign readers, the Republican Party (or elements within it), which is in marginalized opposition in the USA, has called for a day of action to protest the disgrace that is the budget deficit (which I have commented on before). The deficit is so large it defies comprehension and it is growing.  The “action” consists of popular meetings called Tea Parties (a la Boston Tea Party). Activists have also begun sending teabags to members of congress. The media have seized on this and “teabagging” has entered the political lexicon.

Now, I am sure it won’t have escaped the more worldly of you that “teabagging” already had an alternative meaning. Put frankly, it refers to the sex act in which a man (it has to be a man) gets a sexual partner to suck his ball sack by dangling it in said partner’s mouth – an action thought to resemble dangling a teabag in a cup.

At this stage, I remind you of Bones Rule #1.

Needless to say, in expressions of puerile humor never before seen on US TV, the liberal media have seized on this and are practically wetting themselves to see who can refer to teabagging in the most ambiguous way, to greatest comic effect.

We have a winner. Rachel Maddow and Ana Marie Cox were not even close. David Schuster ran away with it (look at the scrotum-like teabags picture behind him):

Genuinely the funniest piece of satire I have seen for a long time.

God bless America!

This is not a political post, more a sad comment on the state of our national politics from my vantage point on the banks of the St. Johns. I am talking of course about the latest nonsense relating to media personality Rush Limbaugh, the prescription drug-addicted, thrice-divorced, bastion of “conservative values” who  deigns to tell 20 million willing listeners what to think every day.

"He's fat! He's round! He bounces on the ground! His name is Rush! His name is Rush!

As entertaining as Rush Limbaugh is (and he is an entertainer, as indicated by A. His clown-like shape and B. his, errr,  prime time talk radio show….),  and, as much as I will go to my grave defending his right to broadcast as he does, the current situation which has led a RNC Chairman to publicly apologize to him, is nothing short of a national disgrace.  For his part in this, Michael Steele must be condemned as a lily-livered blemish on the face of the republican party. In any properly-functioning democracy his failure to stand his ground and his craven willingness to kow-tow to the media in this way would disqualify him from holding any important office ever again … but I digress. This post is about Rush.

You see, as a conservative of sorts, I am at a loss as to what people see in him. He is interesting to listen to – from a sociological or even psychological viewpoint and I am even prepared to believe he is a genuinely nice guy. But his credibility as a true conservative is pretty questionable. He is clearly a man of appetites. I bet nobody could call his diet “conservative”.

He is also a famous drug addict. And he reportedly engaged in criminal behavior to secure those drugs (interestingly, in one of his court cases, his sworn enemy* the ACLU filed an amicus brief supporting him. Good material….). He is a constant smoker of cigars having been lauded as an aficionado in the press. His addiction to women is equally well-chronicled. He has been married three times and is currently dating a lovely lady half his age called Kathryn Rogers. I wonder what first attracted her to the millionaire Rush Limbaugh? Here she is:

With her boyfriend...

She says making love to Rush is like having an armoire fall on her with the key sticking out.

I made that last bit up.

Anyway, consider this a college assignment: Rush Limbaugh: A Man of Appetites (Discuss).