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Friday, August 31, 2007
Wide Stance
The other big news story is of course Senator Craig's bathroom incident. The audio of his police interview hit the airwaves yesterday. Overall, I thought Craig did pretty well in the interrogation and the cop does come off a bit overly aggressive, although he could just be frustrated about being so blatantly lied too.
However, I picked up on one thing by Craig that I thought was a bit inconsistent. Craig says that he took his wide stance because he didn't want his pants to slide down, presumably to avoid touching the dirty floor of the public bathroom. But then at the same time he claims that the reason the cop saw his fingers was that he was reaching down on the floor to pick up a piece of toilet paper behind him.
Now, if you're concerned about getting your pants on the dirty floor, I can't imagine you'd want to help out the janitor by picking up toilet paper behind your seat. Unless you're stuck in a situation like Elaine on Seinfeld and the cop next to you says he can't spare a square.
But Craig chose not to invoke the Seinfeld defense, adopting the unfortunate "wide stance" argument. Comedians everywhere are happy.
The Iraq and U.S. Americans
I apologize for the paucity of posts lately, but it has been a very busy summer. I have to admit, however, that I've been drawn to the story over Miss Teen South Carolina and her botched response to the question at the Miss Teen U.S.A. pageant. Amazingly, there have been close to 10 million viewings of this on You Tube and I only account for about 100,000.
After repeated viewings, I've come to some conclusions. It seems to me that she must have been coached going into the pageant, and developed some stock answers to use ("I personally believe," "in our nation," "South Africa," "Iraq," the "Asian Nations," and repeated use of metaphors with "like" and "such as") and under pressure she just unloaded all of them, with no coherent structure. It's a car wreck that I just can't turn away from.
