naivete of naivete of cynicism

A.

when words speak louder than actions . . . - or how to put things on hold
in order for the lame duck to waddle off the stage to make way for the
Orator and his new declarations.


1) Premise: The West Wing paved the way for the Orator's ascendancy in
creating an appetite for a kind of rhetoric that both looked backward
for its style and forward for its substance (such as it is).

2) Premise: Tom Daschle is 5'7".

3) Premise: Speaking in complete sentences will be the new Elitism.

4) Premise: Osama bin Laden releases video re: Obama-Biden sometime
before February.



B.

Rod Stewart is insufferable.