Daily Wrap-Up (Abso-fucking-lutely Not A Regular Feature)

Good fortune, skill, training, preparation, & geese all combined in New York today. If you've just risen from the dead you might not have known. If you've been (or at least think you've been) alive today, you probably don't know if anything else happened. 

George "Worst President Ever" Bush's ta-ta to the nation, mercifully short (he probably didn't want to do it anyway) & no more or less offensive in its stupidity & tired old crap than any other of his appearances or activities, was shoved in our faces, but, on CNN at least (not a digital wonderland here at the Neon Motel, no other "news" channels available) as soon as the fork was in the president it was back to Crash Coverage 2009, sparing us a review of the most offensive presidential sound-bites, sparing George the raking over the coals he'd have gotten from half the pundits, & sparing the other half of the talking heads either (depending on who drew which talking points today) the embarrassment of attempting to justify/explain the last eight yrs., or the embarrassment of trying to talk about Reagan while disowning Bush as "not a real conservative."

Whew ... weren't expecting to do a whole sentence on the Farewell Address. 

We started w/ the goose attack in NYC, and while not taking anything away from everyone on the scene, who were close to perfect, there has been little or no mention of those who designed, engineered, built & maintained the "luckiest" plane in the world. 

Class fucking warfare. The plane held up, & all the great piloting in the world wouldn't have made any difference if it hadn't. (Human Popsicles Fished From Hudson) So a tip of the Bouffant (Friend of the Worker) chapeau to all the jacks & jills who get their hands dirty every day, making them or keeping them in the air, & to hell w/ the glory hound fly-boys.

Last Night Joke-Fest Wrap-Up:

Letterman's writers: "Airbus: Floats even better than it flies."