The Curmudgeon

Yeah, the Curmudgeon knows it is summertime, and summertime is also known as "Slow News Time", which normally culminates in an August where a missing white chick can be a bigger item than the Macarena. The Curmudgeon also recognizes that this August won't be a slow month; it will be filled with China's propaganda parade masquerading as a Summer Olympiad, and endless gibbering bloviation about the party conventions, both Democratic and G.O.P..

HOWEVER, there are nonetheless some 'stories' out there in the news cycle which are more tired than the third-day reprise of a watery chicken noodle soup-de-yesterjour. It is time for these stinking corpses to be left in the boneyard.

- Timmeh Russert is dead. And buried. For the sake of all that does not suck, can the rusty trombone act please end now? I know Chris Matthews is a leather bottom Boo-Boo in search of Daddy Yogi, but for crying out loud, it is time to end this call for canonization of the Pumpkinhead. Tim Russert, Keeper of the Meme, was a swarthy man-whore upon whom this filthy criminal regime could always count for some positive press. That fact alone disqualifies Russert for consideration as a journalist, let alone a sainted one. He's dead, he's buried, let's move on.

-Al Franken was a piss-poor comedian. There no doubt exists vast volumes which document this fact. His stuff was at best 'so-so' the first time around, and this republican carousel of reliving it all again demonstrates only that it didn't age well. As far as the meme that Franken is some kind of Vulgarian- well, expect a Fat Man Ranting to really address that one.

-Bunnypants sucks. He has the anti-Midas touch: call him Shitfinger. And he really, really sucks when he attempts to attend to natural disasters. W is heading to Iowa today, a week late and several billion short, to pretend to be empathetic. He doesn't care, and this criminal indifference is only exacerbated with the pretense otherwise.
For whatever it is worth, the Curmudgeon is off the Impeachment bandwagon. Bunnypants and his cabal of cronies need to be standing in the docket in front of an international court for war crimes and crimes against humanity.