Weekly Flog-Off

Update: Written in the wee hours prior to the latest news that Mubarak has finally resigned.
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Before we slide or skid into the weekend, a side-eye glance over our shoulders to all things rendered-of-days-past shall be examined, illuminated, ruminated.

Big Bad Flog: Here we go – again. Those dictator-types love to stay in power, don’t they? Please give me a break. This contest of witless willpower is growing old. Mubarak’s beginning to bore the bee-Hay-suse out of me. What’s he thinking? Oh, he’s thinking he’s still everyone in Egypt’s father and he won’t let his children have a bath until he’s finished scrubbing his bodily crowns in clean, hot water just as it once was in the days of yore in Europe (and elsewhere) when the man of the manor was first to have a hot bath; next came the wife to cleanse in her liege's debris, following her were the children to be dipped into what by that point would be a puddle of parental filth. Yuck!

No wonder so many children died of a composite of strange illnesses.

Enough of that. Far more important happenings were spreading throughout the past week’s vast information circuits:

Yawn-While-Awake Flog: Our dear Sarah Pales-in-Comparison-to-almost-everyone-with-a-brain-on-either-side-of-the-political-nets, showed her class-act ACT when she so eloquently chose to rise to comments made by former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum (R) of Pennsylvania, regarding why Pale-&-Dim chose not to make herself available at the GOP CPAC conference this week. Sayeth Sancto-Monotonous, ”I have a feeling that she has some demands on her time, and a lot of them have financial benefit attached to them.”

What? You must be joking! She’s out for money?  Santorum said that Palin has “other business opportunities” - a not-so-vague implication of the obvious.

In response to Santorum’s grasp on reality, Missy Who-Won’t-Leave-Anything-Alone-Except-Her-Job-As-A-Governor retorted to someone somewhere in Glenn Beck-land radio that Mr. Santorum was “uninformed” to suggest she has “other business opportunities.” (Oh my! How could he be so wrong?  Who’s fooling who, ole’ Grizzly Mama? Your priorities have been Bristol-clear for quite some time, you darling deer-in-the-spotlights-happy-to-see-ya’-fakey-dangerous-lady. Not.)

I declare that this cunning, defensive, calculated opportunistic reaction is nothing more than an empty roar. Her slug-fest comment? “I will not call him the knuckle-dragging Neanderthal that perhaps others would want to call him. I’ll let his wife call him that instead,” Palin told Sean Hannity on Fox News. (Her latest BFF. Swoon.)

Whew! What a pissy-hiss! People like me and on TV are still talking/writing about her this week - partially due/or due partially, to her Alaskan-honed heavy-handed-verbal knuckles. Ka-Ching-Ching 


Flogger Log: Wikileaks is leaking how Julian Assange’s possible prosecution of releasing secret government documents may not occur, whereas the actual leaker, the currently incarcerated in solitary confinement Private First Class, Army Intelligence Officer Bradley Manning, may be the one who goes down on paper with watery streak marks as the true traitor at the gates of secret gov't information. Perhaps he has access to music - at the very least. How about something old, something new titled, "Live or Let Lie"?

Nevertheless, Sweden, one of the most casually progressive and realistic countries on the planet (in my  most humble opinion) is going forth with rape charges against Mr. Assange which, depending on what news source you prefer to believe, may or may not be legit. For his breach in leaking, he's facing a dire eeking. Is he hero or victim? I do not know. All anyone can surmise is that Julian has not learned how to follow the example of the Dutch by plugging holes in damn-ing fluid overflows.

How Could This Not Be Mentioned? Celebrities are fair game if you’re Lindsay Dough-Scam no longer on the lam this time around, and the same judge who once admonished and sentenced you in the past on one of your many arraignments, felt so intimated by the media focus on your case that he felt it necessary to speak to you in court two days ago as if you were a 10-year-old who knocked over a fine piece of china in an expensive hotel. For shame, Lindsay, for shame! You, young lady, must, and I mean must - get a grip! And not on jewelry! You’re facing serious, serious wrist slapping this time! The word “felony” is muy different than "I'm hell on thee" - no?

Heaven Help Others, Not Most Of Us: In Science news, or what I’ll label NASA’s NASTIES, the world was alerted to the information citing that another unwelcome asteroid visitor is en route to earth by 2035.  Cool. I thought we might be hitting the end in 2012.


Whew!