You're A Great One, Doctor Seuss

A century past, not a day less or more,
To his parents at last there was born Theodore.
Quite clever with rhymes, and adept on an easel,
We owe many good times to our dear Doctor Geisel.
(Not really a doc, but each book a house call,
For laughter's the best medicine of them all.)
For Horton, the Lorax, one two fish, red, blue,
For the Grinch and for Max and for Cindy Lou Who,
We give lots of cheers, and I boldly deduce --
In a hundred more years, they'll still love Doctor Seuss.

Seussville (for kids of all ages)

A proper treatment of a certain script in The Editing Room (NOT for kids)

Tom

Open Thread

Go wild. What's on your mind?

Take It To Your Leaders

This is the kind of thing that makes me bang my head against the wall:

"The president's taken the clear position that he supports a constitutional amendment," Cheney said in an interview with MSNBC. "I support him."

Cheney said during the 2000 campaign, and again last month, that he prefers to see states handle the issue of gay marriage. His openly lesbian daughter, Mary Cheney, is an aide in the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign, but the vice president declined to discuss her.

"One of the most unpleasant aspects of this business is the extent of which private lives are intruded upon when these kinds of issues come up," he said. "I really have always considered my private — my daughters' lives private and I think that's the way it ought to remain."

So, privacy is good for you and your gay family member, but not for other gay people and their families. Glad we got that straight (so to speak).

But, wait, it gets even better:

"If the Democratic policies had been pursued over the last two or three years, the kind of tax increases that both Kerry and Edwards have talked about, we would not have had the kind of job growth that we've had," Cheney said.

They don't want to raise taxes, Mr. Evil Doofus Veep, they want to rescind your heavily-loaded-to-the-rich tax cuts. If they had pursued those policies, then taxes would've stayed the same as they were, not increased. And, as Josh Marshall points out, saying that "we would not have had the kind of job growth that we've had", i.e., millions of jobs lost, just isn't very bright.

To my dear friends who are Republicans (yes, I have some): WAKE UP! These psychos are killing our country. Take a look.