The Sorry Clown at Gifthub

Posted by The Happy Tutor

Nice to see Master Phil, my protege, making good over at Gifthub.  Thousands of subscribers, invitations to all the right parties.  He has all the right moves and all the wrong reasons. I taught him all the satiric moves and how does he repay me? By providing philanthropic consulting to a global bank. Wealth Bondage encompasses us like an octopus. Did you know that is how Diogenes, the founder of our line, died? Yes, he died eating an entire octopus raw. There is a moral in that. Phil you boot kissing son of a bitch. You are a sorry excuse for a satirist. You are not even much of a Fool. Clown is more like it. You can't write satire if your number one concern is staying in good with the very people you satirize. What do they pay you so you will pull your punches?  Is it worth it, sucking up to the rich and betraying the people who throng about us when we convene Carnival in the streets? Make a choice, pal! The Dumpster or the Bank of Wealth Bondage?

Comments

[JJ Commoner]

Yeah, well .. the issues you set out, that delicious dynamic tension between the fundamental issues and what everyone will talk about or engage with, have been around since quite a while, no ?

[Gerry]

Even so, JJ, it is interesting what we don't talk about. All of us are well aware of the telecom immunity issue, and the cowardice in Congress on this issue, but maybe we are so dumbstruck by the rest of what has already gone on and that there is an inevitability with the current group of wimps. That's exactly why an Obama victory is critical whether he turns out to be everything we hope or not, there will be many new faces in Congress riding on his coattails. None of it is new, I just keep hoping it will be different next time.

[Tutor]

Curing cancer has been an issue for quite some time too. The diagnosis has not changed, the prognosis is about the same. We just keep varying the dosages, and providing the hospice care.