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Good morning, Netizens…
When I crawled forth from my burrow hidden in the back garden of the Virtual Ballroom this morning before the sun rose, the worst mental image I encountered in my preliminary ramblings, was F. Scott Fitzgerald’s infamous recipe for a turkey cockail which goes something like: to one large turkey add one gallon of vermouth and a demijohn of Angostura bitters. Shake.
Usually the first fortune that jumps up at me each morning more or less seems to set the taste of things yet to come, and perhaps that is as Nature provides for my continuing education. No sooner than I had recovered from that visual image of a turkey served on ice than this morning’s David Horsey cartoon absolutely left me gasping for air.
You’ll have to pardon me if the picture of Dick Cheney donned in leathers extolling the virtues of torture leaves me laying on the floor laughing my ass off.
If I am not careful the combined influences of Sarah Palin (who is writing a book while plotting her political re-electionI am told) and Rush Limbaugh who sometimes sounds as if his Thesaurus is broken in pieces on the radio room floor, these two starlets of the ultra-conservative right someday will take me to task for laughing at the Great God Cheney, the perfect mind of the George W. Bush foreign policy gaffe machine.
However, in the back room of some Machiavellian conservative political bar room in the future I envision Cheney just as he appears this morning in Horsey’s cartoon, while in the corner Condi Rice plays Ragtime on a spinet piano with most of the ivory keys missing. Who is to say that might not be the perfect relationship of the political future?
Dave
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Jeffrey_Grey on May 13 at 6:55 a.m.
Dave,
Given the gravity of the issues involved and the core principles in genuine peril here…
And given the fact that on other threads, the notion ‘It’s just and moral if it’s expedient, no other inquiry required’ gets some heads bobbing in enthusiastic, total agreement…
…you’ll forgive me if I fail to see the humor and don’t join in the laughter with you.
lewis8457 on May 13 at 11:41 a.m.
For years I hoped mankind was headed towards divinity. But hearing the turmoil of our countries financial crisis, education melt down, decisions in our military and local law enforcements to “join” the enemies. Just nails home to me the only divinity I can or should even bother searching for is my own.
mhibbs on May 13 at 4:38 p.m.
I don’t see it as humor so much as commentary. Sad commentary, though.
ChefGus/ John Olsen on May 13 at 5:53 p.m.
guess i sorta side with Jeff here… ( usually i do) on other blogs there are many that are adept at “situational ethics” which this cartoon does point at… with regards torture. There are several that have never had military training, and so they do not seem to “get” the idea of UCMJ and Geneva conventions.. ( Cheney and RIce did not serve either i believe and the commander in chief went AWOL during his service)… so the black humor that Mr Horsey does so well may not resonate with those of us that find the idea of torture ( from the Inquisition forward) with waterboards unbelievable, but a fact of our lives. Jesse Ventura was a SEAL and trained at SERE and he calls it torture… as does Mr MCCain and that is enough high level concurrence to put Jeff and I at ease with our positions i think.. j
spokelooneh on May 14 at 7:23 a.m.
“…Great God Cheney, the perfect mind of the George W. Bush foreign policy gaffe machine.”
Gaffe’s?
Not hardly.
Everything was done for a reason.with great deliberation to cause the maximum effects they were seeking, planned chaos.
“Bring it on!”