When I take a step back and really think about the events of the last couple of days, it really hits me how much America has fundamentally changed since World War II. It’s amazing how we, as a country, have begun to see a new level of tolerance and responsibility in our elected leaders. Perusing the news sites really drives it home for me, because there is no way in hell you would see headlines like this fifty, twenty-five or even ten years ago:
It’s great to see the Kennedys becoming more proactive in avoiding cases of unwanted pregnancy. Not long ago, this headline would have read something like Unknown Woman Drowns in Kennedy’s Car, or Marilyn Monroe Death Ruled Suicide. It’s beginning to feel that I might see, in my lifetime, a headline that reads Kennedy Gives Stripper Fake Name To ‘Be Sure She Likes Me For Me’; Asks To Cuddle.
Editor’s Note: Yeah, I’m fully aware that this is nothing but sophomoric double entendre, but after two days of breathless headlines about the President’s Balls, I’m seeing childish dirty bogeymen everywhere. It took all of my willpower to not find a way to shoehorn in the “Bush Policies” headline, so at least I’m trying to salvage my dignity, okay?
Besides, after writing 3,500 words in two days and spending last night in some weird, self-sustaining drunken recursion of celebrating that I’m now less likely to be sent to Guantanamo Bay for the way I like to celebrate? Fuck you; I’m tired. I’ll try harder next time, I promise.
[tags]Caroline Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Guantanamo Bay, dark humor, satire[/tags]
I thought of that screenshot when I heard about “Obama’s massive stimulus package” on the radio this morning.