Random thoughts22 Nov 2005 11:39 am
Everything I know I learned from The West Wing
Well, not quite, but I laughed at the annual pardoning of the turkey episode and then realized that you can’t make this stuff up. It’s real. And today POTUS will pardon not one, but two turkeys, which then are going to be guests of honor in the Disneyland Thanksgiving Day parade. You’ll be happy to hear that these are commercial turkeys that “were fed a regular diet of corn and soybean meal and were provided a continuous supply of fresh water”. A nation united in its obsession with turkeys.
It’s an astute political move. Bush is only appointing turkeys to the supreme court, and he’s being extra sympathetic the turkey demographic. If he pardons enough turkeys, maybe one day the turkeys will pardon him.