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So, don’t forget that the new IFC show “Maron” starts tonight at 10:00 (the first show isn’t the “possum” episode that Vernon posted the other day, so this will be one most of us haven’t seen). And of course his new book, “Attempting Normal” is also out now, too. In support if these two endeavors, Marc has been out there all over the place lately, including appearances on “Fresh Air<\/a>“, CNET’s “404” Podcast\/Vidcast<\/a>, and on the Howard Stern show<\/a>. Suddenly (well, maybe not so suddenly) the man is everywhere. Yes, it’s the beginning of a new Maron Era.<\/p>\n

And to think, it seems like just yesterday he was getting bumped off the air in favor of LA Clippers’ basketball games and having to secretly use Stephanie Miller’s 800 number to take non-local calls. Hard to believe that was, what, like seven years ago? My how things have changed.<\/p>\n

Other things haven’t changed much at all. For instance, I just had to listen to John McCain explain how we need to go to war with Syria now because they (maybe) have used chemical weapons (actually he doesn’t really give a shit about that – he just wants him some regime change). He says we can take out their “air assets” with long-range cruise missiles, and then enforce a “no-fly” zone (now that the weather’s warm I’d like to establish a no-fly – especially black fly – zone in my back yard).<\/p>\n

Never mind that nobody<\/em><\/strong> (except the military industrial complex) wants us involved in yet another war.<\/p>\n

You no what question they didn’t ask old Johnny? “How much?” Yeah, how much is his plan to liberate Syria gonna cost? Aren’t we all kinds of worried about deficits (as long as they don’t interfere with air travel)? A single tomahawk missile costs $1.4 million (back in 2011, anyway). How many of them are we gonna need to take out Syria’s Air assets? Back during Bush Jr’s Iraq war, they were planning on using 800 in the first two days (and Iraq was already pretty well devastated after daddy’s war, so they were a lot easier to deal with) of “shock and awe.” That’d be, what? About $1.1 trillion? <\/p>\n

Seems like that would put a nice dent in the deficit.<\/p>\n