Hank Blakely is funny

He just is, durn it. Especially if you think Bush is a moron. His Bush Diary is good, but what I really like are the email msgs announcing new entries in the diary. He writes with great confidence which is hard to do with comedy because humor writing is inherently a type of pandering, and his confidence is justified … which is also rare with comedy. For example, in this week’s message he waxes comedically about the sorry state of readiness of the National Guard patrolling California’s bridges and recommends that we replace them with trolls. He archives his msgs here.

I was disappointed, however, that he makes no mention of W’s dismissing of his own administration’s conclusion – based on information from six agencies, including the EPA – that global warming results from the human abuse of energy and isn’t simply an unfortunate coincidence caused by bovine methane leakage, Iraqi hair dryer usage and Monica Lewinsky. “I read the report put out by the bureaucracy,” said President Bush as he dismissed it. Later he was heard to refer to Mahatma Gandhi as “that career politician, ” Edward R. Murrow as “that journalist-for-hire” and to himself as “that so-called president.”

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