Come on now, no need to be so disingenuous. Mr. Short's piece is nonsense and absurdist from its opening line to its closing one. Salaries are not the "single largest component of government spending" and nor is "and you should log off and never log on again" any more sensical either.
That plus the fact that nothing which he posted in his Thirteen Ways would at all affect taxation. Sure, they might have some effect on government spending but that's not what the Tea Party protest was about. So, Short's piece is both absurdist _and_ off the mark.
I would guess (and I've known Barry for a while) that it's an absurdist rant satirizing the protesters as libertarian-come-latelys feeding off the government trough while complaining about it. But if you really want to know, ask.
I take it you haven't read Grover Norquist's bit about how proud he was that tea party protesters were making the sophisticated connection between government spending and taxation.
I'm really getting mixed messages. Were the tea party protests about taxes? Or spending? Or deficits? Or expressing anger at the current economic situation? Or losing to Obama?
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Re: Blog Entry In Error: Political Sarcasm Tag Missing
Date: 2009-04-20 06:12 am (UTC)Come on now, no need to be so disingenuous. Mr. Short's piece is nonsense and absurdist from its opening line to its closing one. Salaries are not the "single largest component of government spending" and nor is "and you should log off and never log on again" any more sensical either.
That plus the fact that nothing which he posted in his Thirteen Ways would at all affect taxation. Sure, they might have some effect on government spending but that's not what the Tea Party protest was about. So, Short's piece is both absurdist _and_ off the mark.
Like I said, it's missing its "humor" tag.
Madoc
Re: Blog Entry In Error: Political Sarcasm Tag Missing
Date: 2009-04-20 06:22 am (UTC)I take it you haven't read Grover Norquist's bit about how proud he was that tea party protesters were making the sophisticated connection between government spending and taxation.
I'm really getting mixed messages. Were the tea party protests about taxes? Or spending? Or deficits? Or expressing anger at the current economic situation? Or losing to Obama?