Déjà Vu

Again already? We've voted three times in eleven mos., suddenly the municipal election's Tuesday & the mail-in ballot still isn't complete. Guess we'll be dragging it to the Godzilla studio site to drop it off again.

The revelation/realization that the election is Tuesday came from a Daily Beast item on the sameness of L.A.'s city council & the rest of its elected gummint. (Dudes. Lots of them.) Typed by John Phillips who gets Tammy Bruce to blather about feminism & liberals & yada, & complains all but one of the council members are dirty DemonratsDemocrat party members. Gawd knows why it's that way, but all Bruce makes clear is her dislike of democracy, not the "liberals are the real sexists" claim she thinks she's proved.

If the City Council were all Republican men it would be objective proof to them that this is a center-right country, the people have spoken, blahdiddy blah. (That's why we don't like democracy; look at the hypocrisy & pandering that are a direct result of giving the rabble a "choice.")

One more:

For a liberal city that endlessly congratulates itself on its rich diversity, the numbers tell a different story. In reality, this council displays all the diversity of the Augusta National Golf Club.

The real concern here? The endless self-congratulation of a liberal city, of course. (Liberal? Ask the L.A.P.D. about liberal.) Is it a leap to imagine Mr. Phillips (And surely "John Phillips" isn't his real name.) believes that the Augusta Nat'l. Golf Club can do just what it likes as far as membership because property rights?

All of this is an excellent demonstration of the impossibility of peak wing-nut: Wing-nuttery is not a finite resource, it's renewable & quite sustainable. No outside energy or information is required beyond thinking "liberal" (think of a dog thinking "squirrel."); immediately a fantasy (often paranoid) forms of what the libs are doing today (Pretend we bothered linking to the recent Marine w/ umbrella deal.) & the outrage & wing-nuttery grows organically & geometrically. (Eventually it bursts from its magnetic bottle & people get burned, of course, & that itself is cause for further outrage & paranoia.)

Election Round-Up

We endorse no one; somewhere we absorbed that the mayoral election represents a Clinton (Greuel)-Obama (Garcetti) battle w/in the Democratic party. Does anyone give a damn?

Barring last-minute bribery (Call us. We're in the book.) we're probably leaning in Greuel's general direction, on the lesser-of-two-evils basis; Garcetti's father was L.A. County D.A. for two fucking terms, & if there's anything we're against on principle it's nepotism. And it being six of one, half a dozen of the same old shit, Gruel being a woman doesn't hurt.