It's Stuff Like This That Prevents Me From Being Too Worried About November

The f'ing WALL STREET JOURNAL OP-ED PAGE DOESN'T LIKE MCCAIN.

It's funny, because the editorial actually accuses McCain of acting like his opponent will lose the race on his own; in fact, it seems like Obama is the one who could be resting on his laurels right now. Hopefully (see what I did there?) he doesn't.


[Via TMN]

Great Minds Think Alike

Just like I do, Billy Collins <3s Looney Tunes. I especially identified with this part:

As unsophisticated as any nine year old, I had never been to an opera when I saw Chuck Jones's Wagnerian parody in which Bugs sings Brünnhilde's role in a blonde wig stuffed under a helmet with horns. The first symphony orchestra I ever saw was a cartoon one with a fat man playing a tiny flute and a studious-looking dog with triangle duties -- plus, a conductor wielding a "baton" and wearing "tails." There I saw my first bassoon.

There are SO MANY great pieces of classical music that now serve only to evoke in me images of synchronized-swimming ducks, or highly choreographed routines with hammers, thanks to Looney Tunes.


[Via the almost-always interesting Morning News]