Seriously, I just posted this bit about this thieving, male escort-loving priest for the bad headline pun. Tip of the ‘Nose to Film Critic Buddy.
*Update* While we are on the subject of Catholic priests, I give you “Priest Off”:
Just looking at this is clogging my arteries
Nobody is selling these as yet, but could this be the most unhealthy single meal item yet devised by humankind?
That random shouted question about Tiger Woods at the WH Easter Egg Roll didn’t go over so well…
(Photo by Larry Downing for Reuters.)
There’s always one newbie who falls for the “Easter egg hunt in the IED field” gag…
April Fools’ Day can be a very dangerous holiday in some organizations.
For example, given the well-documented perversity of the Washington Post‘s op-ed pages under Fred Hiatt, it’s probably no surprise that second-tier staffers blow off steam by grumbling and making sarcastic jokes in informal lunch-room conversations.
So, it happens that yesterday, a bunch of them were sitting around on a break at a table with that morning’s Wall Street Journal — lying open to Karl Rove’s opinion piece offering unsubtle GOP-friendly suggestions to the “tea party” movement (including not forming a third party). The talk turned to how soon it would take Hiatt to ask the staff to gin up a me-too column from one of the WaPo’s ever-growing stable of former Bush administration mouthpieces.
Then, realizing it was April Fools’ Day, one of them said, “You know what would be funny? If we wrote up our own piece and put it under the name of Dan Quayle.”
“Who’s Dan Quayle?” asked one of the younger staffers.
“The 1980s prototype for Sarah Palin,” another answered. “Young, supposedly irresistible good looks, and dumber than the day is long.”
“Seriously? How dumb was he?” asked the younger staffer.
“Bill Kristol was considered his ‘brain’.”
A long pause. “Holy crap! I guess you’re right.”
“Exactly! So wouldn’t it perfect to have a column with advice for the teabaggers from Dan Quayle — the patron saint and godfather they never knew they had?”
Unfortunately, just then Fred Hiatt walked in for a cup of coffee, overhearing the suggestion. And he thought they were serious.
(Cross-posted at Firedoglake.)
Okay, so maybe he didn’t, but if the White House is going to issue press releases on this stuff on April Fools’ Day, they should have tried to have some fun with it…
“Yes, sir, I understand you asked that no one talk trash to you about your NCAA tournament picks, but you know how enlisted men are…”
(President Obama in Afghanistan this morning, via the White House.)
(From the White House, via TPM.)
Lisa of All Hat No Cattle observes:
Does anybody notice that guys called Dick usually turn out to be ‘Dicks’. Tricky Dicky Nixon, Dick Armey, Dick Cheney, Dick Dawkins, Dick Armitage etc etc?
Never thought of that, but obvious on reflection! Somebody should update Dickipedia!
