Awake and oh, begone, please?

It's been a while since I've ranted here. I've been trying to be productive, which doesn't leave much time for reading the kinds of things that piss me off.

But today my boss sent me this link to a June 7 essay by, of all people, Garrison Keillor, that was wonderfully shrill and funny on my favorite subject: right-wing nincompoops and the people who follow them. He starts out by deconstructing the recent attacks on Nancy Pelosi -- "After all, in the unique worldview of old elephants, San Francisco is a code word for g-a-y, and after assembling a record of government lies, incompetence and disaster, the party in power hopes that the fear of g-a-y-s will pull it through in November" -- but then segues into a deliciously successful jab ever at the GOP.

"One of the basic assumptions of American culture is falling apart: the competence of Republicans. You might not have always liked Republicans, but you could count on them to manage the bank...To see them produce a ninny and then follow him loyally into the swamp for five years is disconcerting, like seeing the Rolling Stones take up lite jazz."

Read it. Forward it. Write your own version. And annoy the conservatives you know by questioning their intelligence.