A DAILY INNOCULATION AGAINST POLITICAL AND CULTURAL BULLSHIT

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"Plus ça change, cher, n'est-ce pas?" - Mémé Aureole Petite

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Mr. Petite has been an adviser to both the Bush and Obama administrations (neither of which ever asked for his advice) and is a Senior Fellow at (and is supported entirely by) the Ethics and Theory Institute of Terminology (EATIT), a foundation underwritten by the parents of a United States Senator in return for Mr. Petite's silence on certain important matters.

Mr. Petite is a native of virtual New Orleans, and therefore a legal immigrant to his actual residence, so he has never had to do migrant farm work or landscaping. (He did do some shrimping in the virtual bayous on some of the days he played hookey from school.) His sole contact with actual onions is in some of the better gumbos.

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Sunday, November 02, 2008

POP CULTURE

According to the Today Show, there's great interest in this election because it's a pop culture event. As with American Idol. We're into the characters and the story line. We want to see who wins. And we're all going to have election night parties. (They were giving us recipes.)

If they're right, we can expect a low turnout from the young and the pop culture obsessed - because most people don't participate in pop culture, they watch it. And that, it appears, is what's happening. My guess: fewer young people will vote in this election than voted on American Idol. Too bad you can't text a vote in ...

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