Comments on: “Oh, Diogenes!” – Watching the Conventions

By: buddy larsen

buddy larsen — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:51:08 +0000

Jamie –the next two lines fit pretty well on Hillary & Michelle together, too –unable to say what seems by all appearances to be what’s really on their minds, har har –

By: Roderick Reilly

Roderick Reilly — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:01:05 +0000

Oh, I thought the “Diogenes” reference was to the Greek Temple from whence “The One” shall speak to us.

By: Lem

Lem — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:32:39 +0000

Obamus Maximus

By: Xixi

Xixi — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:13:05 +0000

I might make popcorn and tune in to see THE ONE speak from Mile High Stadium, but only to see if a swarm of locusts followed by heavy rain descends upon that multitude.

By: david levavi

david levavi — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:52:34 +0000

…and undoubtedly his wife even more…

Was there a bit of election-season drama I missed or is a catfight between females assumed?
Why should Hillary hate Michelle more than Barack?

By: Jamie Irons

Jamie Irons — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:43:46 +0000

Ah, Buddy. Yes, what a wonderful poem Prufrock is.

I never thought of it before in a political context, but it does fit nicely, doesn’t it.

Jamie Irons

By: buddy larsen

buddy larsen — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:10:38 +0000

TS Eliot previsioned it in the opening of Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock:

LET us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherised upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To lead you to an overwhelming question …
Oh, do not ask, “What is it?”
Let us go and make our visit.

By: Captain Hate

Captain Hate — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:57:12 +0000

Is there a greater insult to our intelligence than political “talking points”

Only when delivered by Keith Olbermann

By: Lightnin' Hopkins

Lightnin' Hopkins — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:28:10 +0000

Musical comedy’s nice, but this: http://tinyurl.com/5wxpc4 puts me in mind of Aristophanes and what he might have written about Barry’s little turn on the catwalk tomorrow night — although it probably would have seemed beyond parody in Ancient Greece as well.

By: Lem

Lem — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:02:09 +0000

Obama coming on tonight takes away some of the aura from mile high tomorrow.

Big mistake.