Oddly Enough Blog
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Obama’s golden opportunity?
Okay staff, we all know we’ve got a problem. The president isn’t as popular as he used to be. His numbers are down, and the Republicans are slinging mud. Anybody got an idea?
Uh, could he save a small child from a burning runaway freight train, Boss?
Hmmmm. Not bad, Lamar, but he’s done that twice already. I think he needs something different this time.
Hey Boss, it’s just a thought, but maybe it’s time to call in Brady?
BRADY! Yes! The incredible image-boosting golden retriever! That’s brilliant! Is Brady available?
Yeah, but you know Brady, he’s still making all those demands.
Giving us the creeps?
Blog Guy, last week you wrote about an opinion poll naming Casey Anthony the “most hated person in America.”
You said of the people who had heard of her, 94 percent didn’t like her. But you also said that 57 percent found her creepy. Was that a different poll?
No, just a subset of the same poll. Her 57 percent creepy quotient puts her right above O.J. Simpson, who scores a 56.
Did the poll find anyone creepier than Casey Anthony?
Only one person. Musician Marilyn Manson, who is practically off the charts creepy.
But aren’t being creepy and hated kind of similar?
Where’s fwd? I’m sure he would have enjoyed the beauty queens…or are his eyes stuck on just one duchess now?
The folks you love to hate?
Blog Guy, you haven’t written about any new signs of that onrushing Apocalypse recently. Is it safe to come out of the panic room?
No, you just stay put in there. An actual opinion poll informs us that Casey Anthony is now “the most hated person in America.”
She’s that Florida woman who was found not guilty of murdering her two-year-old daughter?
Yep, it turns out, 94 percent of the Americans who have heard of her dislike her. Oh, and 57 percent consider her “creepy.”
Ah, I get it. So you think it’s a sign of the Apocalypse that anybody scored so high?
No, the sign of the Apocalypse is that the public seems alarmingly incapable of separating fantasy from fact.
George and Cindy Anthony spotted shopping in Statesville, NC. Store had to get security!
Sometimes the blog just writes itself…
Okay, these numbers just make no sense to me. The latest New York Times/CBS News Poll shows that 82 percent of Americans now disapprove of the way Congress is handling its job.
So wait. You’re telling me that 18 percent of Americans DO approve of how they’re doing? Seriously?
Where the hell are they finding these people? Sensory deprivation tanks? Institutions for the criminally insane? Astronauts just back from the Space Station?
Are these approvers really just thankful that they haven’t yet received a photo of their congressman shirtless, or worse?
The only other explanation I can think of is that this 18 percent were really just engaging in sarcasm. “Oh yeah, I totally approve of how Congress is handling stuff.”
Let’s think about this. Four members of Congress have resigned already this year for personal scandals too stupid to mention here, and that’s not even connected to the ongoing debt fiasco.
@Shra – since we’re talking about Congress, how about “get good & mad…then get rid of everyone”
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If hijackers and kidnappers were as cute as Brady, nobody would want to be released….