Better Yet, Chuck Grassley, Why Isn’t O.J. Simpson In Guantanamo Right Now?
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009We haven’t been hearing much from everyone’s favorite wacky Iowan coot, Senator Chuck Grassley, ever since the Senate Finance Committee passed its health care bill without any help or input whatsoever from the “chief Republican negotiator,” who was busy bottoming out. So today your sentimental editor went to the YouTube and searched “grassley” in the off-chance he’d been up to anything recently. First result, boom. [YouTube]
O.J. Simpson did exactly two admirable things in his life: he played football well, and he was in The Towering Inferno. Besides that he was a completely unhinged wife-beating and likely double-homiciding egomaniacal lunatic with impulse-control problems. If you are the LA Times’ resident turdburglar Jonah Goldberg, you look at O.J. Simpson’s depressing, shameful, and entirely predictable decline — culminating in his recent prison sentence for armed robbery — and say, “Hmm, what does this have to do with that other black gentleman I have heard of, Barack Obama?” 
John Edwards was stumping in Iowa this weekend when an older gentleman wanted to know what Edwards would do about the crisis facing this country that had been “sticking in [his] craw” for a while. That crisis, which the man in question felt the President of the United States needed to solve was how, in the O.J. trial, “The black jury in Los Angeles, the reason they found O.J. not guilty was ‘payback.’” Edwards was all… um, what the fuck, dude, that was like 12 years ago! But the old guy pressed his case.