A Thousand Points of Fight, August 8, 2008

The wonder of democracy is the ample opportunity to fight over stuff. Wouldn't have it any other way, would we? Here are a few of BIRCHES' ineffectual jabs ---

NBC - messed up the presentation of the Opening Ceremonies in Beijing this evening, by running a slew  of commercials that cut the program into a hundred little bits of  color and sound accompanied by the constant background yammering of Bob Costas. 

Meanwhile, a couple of billion people in the poor and backward countries of the world watched the ceremonies uninterrupted.  Sometimes the miracle of American culture is too disgusting to tolerate. Under the Birches, we gave up trying to watch this mess.  Hope the rest of you poor slobs liked it better than we did. 

OSSETIA - Americans don't known anything about this place.  Watch out! If the Bush bunch starts trying to convince you that it's somehow in our interest who wins this war, hide your young sons and daughters. 

REPUBLICANS - we hear today that Bush and Cheney are both going to speak on the same evening at the Republican convention.  Now there's a treat!  It's hard to imagine a greater serving of bullshit and bologna all in one lethal dose.  BIRCHES' advice is to watch Simpson reruns and catch up with the Convention highlights next morning on the cable news.