Theriomorphic Thursday, we're all bozos on this bus

There must be something in the water around here. Riding the bus to work this morning an older, rather disheveled but wild-eyed fellow boards, walking somewhat unsteadily. After paying his fare he announces to the assembled contingent, "Did anyone else watch the debate last night?"

Of course nobody responded. Which didn't deter our new Cruise Director from launching into his spiel. "I started with a blank piece of paper. I listened to each of them try to convince me he should be president. And let me tell you, the only man who can save this country is Ron Paul."

Then he started to say something about Mitt Romney and "The Rockefellers" but the bus driver interrupted, "You need to sit down sir!"

So he sat. And kept right on talking. My stop was next so I missed the rest of the show. Hopefully the driver called Transit Police, and they brought their nets.

Oh, by the way, I didn't watch the debate. Another CNN gotcha-fest isn't my idea of how the Republicans need to go about beating Obama. We are trying to beat Obama, aren't we?

The big headline in today's Star-Ledger — "Inside NYPD's Newark Spying." Evidently the NYPD, tasked with preventing another 9/11, had the temerity to covertly monitor Muslims living in New Jersey.

Naturally all the usual crybabies are crying foul. Because Muslims from New Jersey have never tried to blow up stuff in NYC before. Mayor Cory Booker is outraged! that the surveillance was "based on no more than religious affiliation."

I'd be sympathetic, but then there's that whole Catholics have to pay for birth control thing, and I didn't hear word one from Cory Booker about that.

I guess some religions are more deserving of protection than others. Maybe because the practitioners of a certain religion have the tendency to blow stuff up. And you know, if that turned out to be a recognizable pattern, I'd expect the police to pay attention to it. Wouldn't you?

One of my Facebook friends posted this Rush Limbaugh quote:

"Do the Obamas know how to party or do they know how to party? Oh, man. You get called off the ski slopes in Aspen to come back for a blues concert. Mick Jagger sang a couple songs. You know what I wish? I wish he would have sung 'Sympathy for the Devil,' what with all this talk of Satan out there. But he didn't sing 'Sympathy for the Devil.' I also would have loved for him to sing 'Brown Sugar' just to irritate Moochelle, 'cause she doesn't like sugar."

Mick Jagger comes to their house. Sure, the Obamas are just like you and me.

Coupla notes. Yeah, I know the Posterous headlines widget up top is broken. A fix is in the works. The Day Job is being a bear right now so that's gotta take precedence. Sophie's off school this week and she's getting a jump on her teen years by staying up late and sleeping in. That means less time for blogging at night. Oh, and I got a new BlackBerry. I like new toys and I'm having (my kind of) fun getting it set up the way I want. So no links today.

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