{"id":3228,"date":"2010-05-04T06:59:44","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T10:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=3228"},"modified":"2010-05-04T07:05:42","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T11:05:42","slug":"sic-semper-diccus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2010\/05\/04\/sic-semper-diccus\/","title":{"rendered":"Sic Semper Diccus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/vaseal.jpg\" alt=\"vaseal\" title=\"vaseal\" width=\"200\" height=\"291\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"3\" hspace=\"3\" \/>I guess by now everybody&#8217;s heard about Virginia&#8217;s AG &#8211; Ken Cuckoonelli &#8211; deciding the State Seal was too racy because one of the goddess of virtue&#8217;s boobs is &#8220;exposed,&#8221; and handing out lapel pins to his staff featuring a cleaned-up version.  What is is with right-wingers and boobs, anyway?  I mean, I consider myself a fairly representative member of the straight male population, and I&#8217;ve always kind of liked boobs.  I don&#8217;t have the same obsession with them that some guys do, I really don&#8217;t like the fake ones (they remind me of my sister&#8217;s Barbie dolls and &#8211; with all due respect to Barbie &#8211; fake plastic bumps just don&#8217;t do it for me), and I&#8217;m not especially partial to the Dolly Parton look, but, all-in-all, it&#8217;s pretty rare that I say to myself, &#8220;good god, cover those things up.&#8221;  Even more strange is the fact that the VA seal is a cartoon, and even at that, it&#8217;s not a particularly salacious, graphic, or erotic cartoon (I mean, Peter Griffin has bigger boobs).  They make the Spirit of Justice&#8217;s boob that had John Ashcroft all hot and bothered look like a porn star.  <\/p>\n<p>Maybe Cuckoonelli ought to be more worried about kids killing other kids at the University of Virginia, and less worried about cartoon boobs.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of killing college kids, it was 40 years ago today that the Ohio National Guard decided to open fire on a bunch of college kids at Kent State.  I was only about 9 years old, and it&#8217;s hard for me to tell if I really remember it when it happened or not.  I mean, I feel as if I remember it, &#8216;cuz it&#8217;s become such a big part of the history of the Vietnam War era, but who really knows.  I&#8217;m sure it didn&#8217;t have the impact on me that it would if it had happened when I was college age.  Hard to believe it&#8217;s been so long (actually, the hard part is believing that I&#8217;ve gotten so damn old).<\/p>\n<p>Looks like they caught the Times Square SUV bomber, and he appears to be an American of Pakistani descent.  I have to confess, I was rather hoping it would turn out to be a teabagger.  Good thing he wasn&#8217;t much of a bomb maker.<\/p>\n<p>Oh well, thanks to the web host having database issues again, I didn&#8217;t have much time this morning, so I guess I better get going.  It&#8217;s finally podiatrist day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess by now everybody&#8217;s heard about Virginia&#8217;s AG &#8211; Ken Cuckoonelli &#8211; deciding the State Seal was too racy because one of the goddess of virtue&#8217;s boobs is &#8220;exposed,&#8221; and handing out lapel pins to his staff featuring a cleaned-up version. What is is with right-wingers and boobs, anyway? 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