Lordy! Which do you think it is? Do we live in a Monty Python Show or a Kurt Vonnegut Novel?
Here’s the evidence:
Dateline Emory University: College students “scared” and “no longer feel safe” after exposure to chalk sidewalk graffiti supporting Donald Trump. People who in any other century, in many other cultures today would be grown men and women express their terror at scribbling on the sidewalk saying “Vote Trump!” None of them seems to realize that their chalk works on sidewalks, too.
Dateline Phoenix Arizona: Maricopa County Recorder (the person in charge of the bureaucracy that cut the number of polling places by 70% in a city the size of Los Angeles County) blames four-hour-long waits to vote on the voters. “Well, the voters (are to blame) for getting in line….”
Dateline Seattle: Internet trolls take all of one day to subvert Microsoft’s chatbot, “Tay,” posting nasty Tweets in gay abandon. Digital fanboys don’t even register the question of why no one at Microsoft saw that one coming…
Dateline North Carolina: Perp arrested for failing to return videotape borrowed 15 years ago from a long-defunct video store. Apparently life is so quiet in NC the cops have nothing better to do with their time. Either that or North Carolina has no concept of “statute of limitations.”
Dateline Georgia: Man packs lawnmower with explosives and then shoots at it; blows his leg off.
Soo…which is it: Are we living in a Monty Python Show? a Kurt Vonnegut novel? Or are we trapped inside a country-western video?
If it helps, the Emory thing is fake. If you make students look like idiots, you don’t have to pay attention to their legitimate complaints.
http://www.snopes.com/emory-students-trump-graffiti/
WooHOOO! Great, GREAT find!!! That is, bar none, THE best reader find in the history of this blog. Who would think the Washington Post would fall for total b-o-o-o-g-u-s?
On the other hand the very fact of WaPo’s duping brings us back to the same question: Monty Python or Kurt Vonnegut? My money’s on Vonnegut for this one. 😀
The one about the guy blowing his foot off just caught my eye this morning. Unbelievable. Pretty sure that right before the video started, the ever famous words were uttered: “Here…hold my beer.”
Pure Monty Python.
That is a stiff lawnmower!