Just Not Funny, by Arthur Tebbel – Pop Art #118

March 8, 2011 Arthur Tebbel 6 Comments

Dear Art,
You must be just itching to go this week.  You have so much to talk about.  Charlie Sheen has gone crazy across basically every media outlet that doesn’t need lead-time.  There are massive protests in Wisconsin that seem to have the very future of organized labor hanging in the balance.  As a bonus the governor seems to be so blindingly incompetent that a local newspaper is suing him.  A spokesperson for Sarah Palin even issued a statement to affirm that Palin was not afraid of Jon Stewart.  You must be happier than a pig in shit.  What more could you want?
-Name withheld

Hey,
Not really.  I don’t think any of this stuff is funny.  Charlie Sheen’s Twitter is hilarious but if you stop to think about it for even a second it becomes apparent that we’re probably watching a man die of drug abuse live on the Internet.  I mean what’s the best-case scenario of this?  That he’s “just” gone completely insane?  I feel pretty terrible setting out to write about that.  I will not be unfollowing him on Twitter.

I believe in the American labor movement.  I don’t think taking away the rights of workers is funny.  Scott Walker seems to be a colossal moron what with the being tricked into thinking he was talking to a Koch brother and spilling his insidious plan and his claiming to have an outpouring of supportive e-mails only to be called on it and sued by a local paper.  The astroturfing has gone particularly poorly up there as well.  The bus tour has been a flop by all accounts and the counter-protests have been blown out of the water by the actual protests.  I’m not laughing yet.  I believe over a long enough timeline the Republicans will win and the unions will be shattered.  Hilarious.  Enjoy neo-feudalism.

I still refuse to talk about Sarah Palin.  That said I’m really pumped that Michele Bachman is moving closer and closer to a run for President.  That woman is delightful and I hope to hear much more from her.  Anyone who would spend time during a major recession to allow incandescent light bulbs back in the Capitol building is someone I want to be more prominent on the national scene.  You sure showed those dirty hippies Michele.  Way to put your thumb in the eye of energy efficiency!