One of my favorite blog-related activities is checking the 'audience' monitor to see where readers of this blog are from.
This week, we've picked up readers in Iran, India, Singapore, Indonesia, the Netherlands, and Spain! So hello to all you folks, wherever you hail from.
I imagine quite a few of my international readers first starting reading the old blog (may it rest in peace), which was basically a non-stop rant against a certain former presidential Administration and its penchant for instigating pointless military escapades. I also devoted several hundred pages to describing the overly carnivorous eating habits of former Vice President Dick 'I Crave the Blood of Infants' Cheney, who I still consider one of the most evil men to have ever gutted a live wildebeast for his midmorning snack.
Well, sad to say, I've calmed down a bit. Not because I'm a huge fan of the current occupant of the White House, but because I've decided it doesn't really matter who's sitting behind that desk. They aren't the ones running the show.
But for my international readers, I will offer a brief summary of the current state of affairs here in the States. To wit:
1) American Foreign Policy -- Troops in Iraq? Check. Troops in Afghanistan? Oh yeah. Billions poured daily into wars without goals or end? You know it. Payments to 'allies' such as Pakistan, which are immediately funneled into supplying the very people shooting at us? Made daily. The only conclusion I can draw is that American foreign policy is still being drafted by a super-secret combination of Ouija Boards which channel deceased Halliburton executives and are operated by meth-crazed Rhesus monkeys.
2) American Domestic Policy -- This one is easy. 400 -- that's four hundred -- Americans have more wealth than 155 million other Americans combined. Which makes it easy for the super-rich to buy more than enough congresspeople to keep tax cuts for the rich and the industries they favor firmly in place, while the middle class vanishes like snow in a blast-furnace. Everything else revolves around this simple axis of wealth. Coming soon: You'll either be rich in America, or very very poor. Welcome to Third World Homeland.
3) The 2012 elections? Get ready, folks, because this will be the single most stunning parade of sheer idiocy that you've seen since, um, 2008. Gingrich, Palin, Santorum -- forget the carnival freakshow, because this is going to have it all, and then some. And, as I said before, the real icing on the cake is the futility of the whole wretched star-studded spectacle. It doesn't matter who wins. The 'winner' is just a cardboard cut-out propped up on a stage for the rubes to throw things at. The real decisions are made quietly, without any fuss, in a cherry-paneled room somewhere over snifters of brandy and five hundred dollar cigars.
See why I basically stopped even mentioning politics?
Anyway, welcome to the blog. Drop me an email at franktuttle@franktuttle.com and say hello!
This week, we've picked up readers in Iran, India, Singapore, Indonesia, the Netherlands, and Spain! So hello to all you folks, wherever you hail from.
I imagine quite a few of my international readers first starting reading the old blog (may it rest in peace), which was basically a non-stop rant against a certain former presidential Administration and its penchant for instigating pointless military escapades. I also devoted several hundred pages to describing the overly carnivorous eating habits of former Vice President Dick 'I Crave the Blood of Infants' Cheney, who I still consider one of the most evil men to have ever gutted a live wildebeast for his midmorning snack.
Well, sad to say, I've calmed down a bit. Not because I'm a huge fan of the current occupant of the White House, but because I've decided it doesn't really matter who's sitting behind that desk. They aren't the ones running the show.
But for my international readers, I will offer a brief summary of the current state of affairs here in the States. To wit:
1) American Foreign Policy -- Troops in Iraq? Check. Troops in Afghanistan? Oh yeah. Billions poured daily into wars without goals or end? You know it. Payments to 'allies' such as Pakistan, which are immediately funneled into supplying the very people shooting at us? Made daily. The only conclusion I can draw is that American foreign policy is still being drafted by a super-secret combination of Ouija Boards which channel deceased Halliburton executives and are operated by meth-crazed Rhesus monkeys.
2) American Domestic Policy -- This one is easy. 400 -- that's four hundred -- Americans have more wealth than 155 million other Americans combined. Which makes it easy for the super-rich to buy more than enough congresspeople to keep tax cuts for the rich and the industries they favor firmly in place, while the middle class vanishes like snow in a blast-furnace. Everything else revolves around this simple axis of wealth. Coming soon: You'll either be rich in America, or very very poor. Welcome to Third World Homeland.
3) The 2012 elections? Get ready, folks, because this will be the single most stunning parade of sheer idiocy that you've seen since, um, 2008. Gingrich, Palin, Santorum -- forget the carnival freakshow, because this is going to have it all, and then some. And, as I said before, the real icing on the cake is the futility of the whole wretched star-studded spectacle. It doesn't matter who wins. The 'winner' is just a cardboard cut-out propped up on a stage for the rubes to throw things at. The real decisions are made quietly, without any fuss, in a cherry-paneled room somewhere over snifters of brandy and five hundred dollar cigars.
See why I basically stopped even mentioning politics?
Anyway, welcome to the blog. Drop me an email at franktuttle@franktuttle.com and say hello!
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