He Didn’t Have to Sugar-​​Coat It

Dar­lene, at Pro­tein Wis­dom, did a post on the lat­est activ­i­ties of Gov­er­nor Moon­bean (h/​t: Mike Royko, and I should point out that Gov­er­nor Moon­beam is now Attor­ney Gen­eral Moon­beam, but I stick to the old adage, “Once a Gov­er­nor Moon­beam, always a Gov­er­nor Moon­beam”) and first com­menter out of the box, a mere 7 min­utes after she hit Pub­lish, was a descrip­tive genius.  Name of Squid.

Now there are com­ments and there are com­ments.  There are quotes and there are quotes.

There is Churchill’s about Rus­sia: It is a rid­dle, wrapped in a mys­tery, inside an enigma…

There is Reagan’s about Rus­sia: the Evil Empire.

But for sheer, suc­cinct, Shake­spearean poet­i­cal to-​​the-​​pointness I don’t think any­thing can com­pare with Squid’s com­ment on the cur­rent state of affairs in the Eureka state:

Why does any­one still live in Cal­i­for­nia? No water, no elec­tric­ity, no jobs, high taxes, crooked gov­ern­ment, and any­thing you might want to do for fun is ille­gal. When it rains, the hills slide into the canyons, and when it doesn’t rain, every­thing catches fire.

If you want to jump to Squid’s com­ment and read it in it’s glo­ri­ous entirety it’s HERE.  If you want to read what Gov­er­nor Moon­bat is going on about it’s HERE.  Although I do take issue with one thing Dar­lene wrote, which is an unusual state of affairs.  She said the law that Moon­beam is gassing about, which states that if you have an illus­trated Alice in Won­der­land that your mother had as a girl you can be fined thou­sands of dol­lars if you let your lit­tle girl read it, was the hand­i­work of Henry Wax­man, whom she labels a troll.  Wax­man looks noth­ing like a troll.  He may be obnox­ious and smell bad, just like a troll, but there is lit­tle resemblance.

Last sum­mer the cat leaped into the air and bat­ted its paw at some­thing and con­nected.  I present its prize with­out fur­ther com­ment, other than to note that, even though it has more hair and lacks the beady eyes, there is a very clear resem­blance. You be the judge:

Well? Isn’t there a resemblance?

If you add some curly hair?

Tags: bat, California, Darlene Click, Henry Waxman, Moonbeam, Squid, troll