Extremely Lame

Ahh yes. September 11th. I’d completely forgotten until I turned on the TV, pored through the internet, and read the newspaper. It’s pretty ubiquitous. How long do you think it will be until Patriot Day (as it’s called) will be as meaningful to most Americans as Memorial Day or Labor Day? Ah, but that’s a question for another day.

Today we get to see how our two presidential candidates ponder this day. Oh, look! They’re both attention whoring and pandering together at Ground Zero! Isn’t that adorable? Let’s just bite our tongues and censor ourselves to celebrate the First Amendment freedoms that the turrists weren’t able to take from us. Oh, wait.

Instead, how about we talk about Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment on the crass politicization of 9/11. Admitted, it’s not his best Special Comment, but it does address that completely shameful snuff film that the Republicans foisted on us during the Republican National Convention. More importantly, it takes McCain to task for his saying that he knows how to capture Osama bin Laden, but he hasn’t bothered to tell anyone in charge about it for eight months since uttering that quip.

You, Sir, are blackmailing some portion of the American electorate into voting for your party, by promising to help in the capture of bin Laden only if you are made president!

I’d rather win an election than catch bin Laden! No more cynical calculation has ever been made in this nation’s history, Sir. If you lose the election, Senator, are you not going to tell the President-Elect?

Sure, Olbermann is a blowhard for the left and isn’t half as smart as Rachel Maddow is, but his Special Comments are always spot on.

So, what have I been doing on this Patriot Day? I’ve been playing around with Spore, creating a race of Red, White, and Blue creatures with sloping foreheads, poor posture, dragging knuckles, and spurs called Murcans. I think I need to create a race of equally belligerent, but sneaky, creatures called Turrists.