Whether you celebrate Easter or, like me, have Easter thrust upon you, have a happy, honeybaked ham kind of day (or lasagna, in my case).
Speaking of hams, today’s porcine purveyors of pompously pedantic picayune prognostication include…
On Press the Meat, it’s Jeff Goldberg, from The Atlantic, NPR’s Michele Norris, Robin Wright of the Washington Post and The Washington Examiner’s Byron “the dork” York. Plus Alex Blumberg and Adam Davidson from NPR’s popular “Planet Money” (obviously not the same planet I live on).
Over on CBS’s Faze the Nation, Bob Scheiffer has Mexican Ambassador to the United States, Arturo Sarukan (are they sure he isn’t Armenian?), Rajiv Chandrasekaran of the Washington Post, David Sanger form the NY Times, and conservative columnist Kathleen Parker (who at least knows a pig in lipstick when she sees one).
On Fux News Sunday, Weaselface Wallace has Democratic Senator Evan Bayh and Rethuglican Tom Coburn. Then a couple of twits from the Fux Business Network (the only network that can make CNBC seem prescient), Liz Claman and Jenna “Jameson” Lee, and this week’s “Power Player,” Donald Wuerl, archbishop of Washington (shouldn’t he be in church or something?). Plus the usual bunch of fuxheads.
The Goebbels network really cranks up the porkometer, as George Snufalufagus hosts homophobic Pastor (and Obama buddy) Rick Warren. The pig parade continues at the Roundtable with disgraced former House Speaker Newt “pigface” Gingrich, pork puller George :jerk: Will, WaPost columnist (and Alberto Gonzalez defender), Ruth Marcus, and Paul Krugman (how’d he sneak on there?).
Later, on 60 Minutes, Scott Pelley reports on the “DEKA Arm,” which is making it possible for amputees to pick up small, delicate objects they never thought possible. Lesley Stahl reports that, thanks to the shitty economic times and Baracknophobia, there’s a run on guns in this country (oh boy, that’s what we need – heavily armed and desperate morons; if they’d just shoot each other, it would be OK, but they seem intent on fucking things up for the rest of us). And Charlie Rose talks to Steve Wynn, who is apparently a casino mogul whose eye disease is slowing making him go blind.
Whether you dine on ham, lasagna, or Matzoh, have a good Sunday.
UPDATE: Finally, a First Puppy.
I’m sure the self-righteous wingnuts will be outraged that Obama let this dog get lei’d at such a young age. And of course PETA will be no less outraged, seeing as the puppy didn’t come from a rescue shelter.