My students tell me I say some pretty funny things. The problem, they say, is they cannot tell when being funny is my intent.<\/p>\n
I will save you the trouble of thinking too hard. I will now try to be funny. The comments that follow are absolutely factually accurate. I swear. It is my interpretation that is supposed to be funny.<\/p>\n
Anyway, there I was at the end of a long week, at the club, working out. I was listening to Al Gore – Assault on Reason – on the ipod. After I was able to ramp the stairmaster up to a burn rate of a couple of calories a minute, I began to pay attention to my surroundings. Within my field of vision are three television sets each with a different show and all running closed captioning. On my left (told you this would be hard to make up) was CNN. On the right was Fox. I will get to the middle display at the end.<\/p>\n
The individuals appearing on both televisions are the same. I know from experience that the spin must be going in opposite directions. What I can figure out from the closed captioning is that the word of the day is – Repudiate. There is a black minister and an older white woman and evidently both are racists. Some weird club they must belong to. The repudiate thing has something to do with these racists.<\/p>\n
Then there was the image of Colin Powell. Not sure what he was there for and I don’t think anyone was trying to repudiate him.<\/p>\n
You know, humor is a funny thing. Sometimes we try to be funny when life makes us nervous.<\/p>\n
I hope the candidates get past this repudiate thing. I want to know if anyone besides me is worried about the stock market. I do repudiate falling stock prices and rising gas costs. Sorry.<\/p>\n
Anyway – the television in the middle was playing a Bob Newhart rerun. Just what I needed – a pretend psychologist to help me deal with the schizophrenic situation I was in.<\/p>\n
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