the onion’s prescience
Is it sad or poignant that a major satirical news source was extremely accurate in forecasting the general outcome of the Bush administration’s policies and actions.
Check out this archived reprint of an Onion article that has transformed passages of the text into links to related outside information as evidence to the Onion’s seemingly outlandish predictions.
I want to smile but I also want to grit my teeth and slap my forehead. And don’t forget about those vote tabulation machines. Do I need to force everyone to watch Black Sheep and hope that some comical reenactment of Chris Farley, David Spade and Gary Busey’s last minute secret mission can keep the upcoming elections from being tampered with? A hidden two digit code and a Microsoft Access database does not make me feel really comfortable about the safety of my vote.
But then again, I’m overtly herded into the lesser of two evils so how bad can it really get? Why does everyone mock/deride/ignore Ralph Nader so much? An amazing quote that I heard on a PBS documentary on video games actually fits humans and politics quite well, so here it is paraphrased:
People expect too much in one year and too little in ten.
10 September 2004, 09:59 ::
commenting closed for this article