Sunday Bloody NYT Sunday: Special Rand Paul Edition With Extra-Special Guest Star The Washington Post
Oh hello there. Happy Sunday! Were you just chillin' out maxin' and relaxin' or were you thinking "gosh, I would really like to read eleventy million words about Rand Paul"? If the latter, the Sunday New York Times has got your back, Jack. Did we read the complete history of Rand, son of Ron? Oh, heavens no! But we did skim it long enough to make our way to our very favorite thing about modern libertarianism: that Canadian rock band Rush is their musical vanguard.
Gary L. Gardner Jr., a high school friend [of Rand Paul] said: “I remember even back then being on a swim team bus and a Rush song comes on. I think it was the song ‘Trees’ — and he said, ‘Man, listen to the words of this, you know those guys have got to be conservative.’ ”
“The Trees” tells the story of maples, overshadowed by tall oaks, that form a union to bring equality to the woods “by hatchet, ax and saw.”
A writer in today&#039;s <i>NYT</i> is so wired into the current, corrupt political system that he&#039;s <a href="http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/01\/26\/us\/politics\/it-only-seems-that-political-corruption-is-rampant.html\?ref=us" target="_blank">unable to see</a> how corrupt it actually is.
As far as someone named Michael Wines is concerned, if no pols go to jail, no pols are corrupt.
Sheesh.
And by the way, is the Wonkette Server Farm under a denial of service attack today? Couldn&#039;t touch Wonkette.com using Chrome on an iPad, and can&#039;t reach HappyHappyHappy from this peecee.
Elsewhere in the news, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KYjelly) introduced a new bill today. S.104, the &quot;Equine Corpse Utilization Act of 2014,&quot; would remove all government restrictions on the flogging of dead horses.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MAmamia) pointed out that the bill was superfluous, as there are currently no government restrictions on dead-horse flogging.
Reached for comment at a Koch Industries horsemeat processing plant in suburban Virginia, Sen. Minority Whip John Cornyn (R-Quirt), put down his whip long enough to respond: &quot;See? The Democrats are constantly complaining that we produce no legislation, and then when we do, they refuse to pass it.&quot;