Archive for April 20th, 2009
All we could think of when we saw this cartoon of Rahm Emanuel was…
The cartoon above is from POLITICO today, and it has nothing at all to do with Boystown, but all we could think of when we saw Rahm Emanuel with his Appletini was “that sure looks an awful lot like Mini Bar or Sidetrack in there”…if you replace the elephants in the back with dozens of young, hungry social climbers and Mitch McConnell with Jake Gylenhaal, or one of the Jonas brothers, or Zac Efron, or someone.
Just walk into Mini Bar on Halsted any Friday or Saturday night and you will meet many very well-dressed young stockbrokers, bond traders, or lawyers who all landed very sweet jobs at big Chicago firms after Rahm Emanuel gave them, uh…recommendations.
Young, good-looking, usually dark-haired, football-player build type guys.
Because Rahm Emanuel is a giver. He likes to help young guys just starting out because he has such a big heart — and learned everything he knows about this “mentoring program” from his days in New York, at Studio 54, when he was a very friendly male ballerina at Julliard.
The role of Truman Capote in Appletini circles is, thus, now being played with gusto by Rahm Emanuel.
Fabulous!
What's Hillary Clinton Doing Today? April 20th, 2009
1045 – Bilateral with Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands
215pm – Bilateral with Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cyprus
Go, Hillary, Go!
World Without Us: The Series
A new series debuts tomorrow night on the History Channel that essentially renders all of the crying, teeth gnashing, and hair pulling over anthropogenic climate change ridiculously moot.
The World Without US takes concepts that have been around for years in the works of people like Dougal Dixon (After Man: A Zoology of the Future and Man After Man, about future human evolutions), and illustrate how ferociously efficient the natural world will be in reclaiming the planet once human civilization disappears.
Essentially it boils down to this: less than 50 years after the last human vanishes, all the forests will grow back, cities will disappear under vegetation, natural streams and rivers will flow freely again, and all the damage human industry and culture wrought on the natural world will be healed, as if the last 10,000 years or so never happened at all.
Growing up in strong Democratic households, and having Earth Day and other traditionally Democratic holidays beaten into us by heavy-handed liberal schools, we were never once shown how resilient the natural world truly is — and how throughout the fossil record species have risen and fallen as the planet’s fortunes ebbed and flowed, largely influenced primarily by the activity of the sun (since we believe it is solar flare activity, not anthropogenic industrial emissions, that causes fluctuations in global temperatures).
Check out this new series to see just how little time it would take for the whole planet to become one giant forest again, and for all sorts of new animals to evolve to reconquer the planet without humanity around to limit their develop.
If you like the series, check out Dougal Dixon’s works on alternate evolution. It’s the kind of stuff guaranteed to make you the oddball in any cocktail party, since talking about the speculative future evolution of rabbits into deer-like ungulates and rats into monstrous leonine terrors is something not appreciated by anyone without a healthy imagination, and the ability and willingness to realize that humanity gives itself way too much credit: we might be the dominant species on this planet, but in the end the planet itself will dominate us, the way it’s dominated everything else. We’ve had about 10,000 years worth of impact.
But just 50 years or so without us around would already wipe most of our achievements out completely.
Monday Open Thread
What’s on your mind today?
What do you think the main stories this week will be?
What do you think about the current president saying nothing while Chavez and others slammed America last week?
Do you get the sense that, no matter how much the MSM tries to downplay the way this president looks down on America and disparages the nation abroad, that more and more people will continue to realize this is Jimmy Carter all over again, and could very well look for a new Ronald Reagan who won’t sit quietly while the Hugo Chavez and other petty, vulgar tyrants of the world attempt to degrade the greatest country in the world?
The more of this stuff that happens, the more people have to face the fact that the man currently sitting behind the Resolute Desk has no idea how much damage he’s doing when traveling the world committing gaffes myriad and sundry, bowing to kings who support terrorism, and shaking hands with the likes of Chavez, as if he was an old buddy, if not long lost soulmate.
What do you think?
