This isn't helping my coulrophobia one damn bit...

I found this on the TomPaine.com site today. Whoever it was at McDonald's that thought of (or approved) this needs to have his brain supersized. On the list of all-time idiot PR ideas, this is right up there with Bat Day at Yankee Stadium.

However, try as I might to come up with some appropriately outraged eco-radical slogan, all my depraved mind could think of was Ronald McDonald and something more frequently associated with a White House intern.

As Ray Wylie Hubbard would say: "Uuuggghhhhh......"

Will somebody please get this poor man a drink?

Bush Urges Nation To Be Quiet For A Minute While He Tries To Think

WASHINGTON, DC­—While acknowledging every American's inalienable right to free speech, the president asked citizens to "hold off on it for, say, 60 seconds."

Raised By Hippies

Earlier this year, my friend Mona put a post on her blog in which she referred to the song "Raised By Hippies" by I See Hawks in L.A. This has led to numerous hits to her site from people looking for the lyrics to the song (my favorite search term was "Paul Lacques Hippie Lyrics").

Since the hits increased during The Hawks' recent U.S. tour and because a recently completed tour of England and Scotland might have created an entirely new group of people looking for the lyrics, I thought I'd finally give these diligent folks something to find.

Raised By Hippies

The Year the Levees Broke

The Year the Levees Broke
By Greg Palast in New Orleans
August 24, 2006

America went through a terrible year. The levees broke in New Orleans. When bodies floated in the streets, the Republican Congress saw an opportunity for more tax cuts and consolidation of the corporatopia they had created for their moneyed donors. The Democratic Party was clueless, written off, politically at death's door.

The year was 1927.

Back then, when the levees broke, America awoke. Public anger rose in a floodtide, and in that year, the USA entered its most revolutionary period since 1776. The thirty-four-year-old utility commissioner of Louisiana, Huey P. Long, conceived of a plan to rebuild his state based on a radical program of redistributing wealth and power. The ambitious Governor of New York, Franklin D. Roosevelt, adopted it, and later named it The New Deal. America got rich and licked Hitler. It was our century.

It's 1927 again.

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An "Okie From Muskogee" for the rest of us!

OK….1, 2, 3…..Awwwwwwwww!!!!!