- mel: so all this stuff about obama and the legislature pushing bipartisanship has been making me think about sesame street
- molly: because barney frank looks like oscar the grouch?
- mel: yes.
- mel: also, through kids shows, we're given this myth that we're supposed to cooperate with everyone, and behind every bully is just a sad kid who doesn't know how to interact with people, and that's why he shoved a staple into your lip
- molly: oh, shit just got real
- mel: but here's the thing - sometimes, you can't cooperate with everyone, and sometimes a bully is just a bully.
- mel: and sometimes that bully needs a staple shoved into his lip, so he stops fucking with you.
- molly: you're saying that the democrats are acting like tiny mel on the playground and letting staples get shoved into their lips repeatedly?
- mel: it was outside of math class, but yes.
- molly: what did you do? take karate and defeat the bully in front of the whole school?
- mel: nope - again, that's what kid shows teach us.
- mel: i watched over the next seven years as he got popular and had lots of friends
- mel: then he got a boner in the guys shower room in tenth grade and was ostracized for the rest of high school
- molly: so, we should shove staples into the republicans now, instead of waiting for them to get awkwardly-timed boners in the Senate sauna two elections from now?
- mel: let's do both. i'll take staples - you're on boner duty.
- molly: story of my lyfe.
January 20, 2010
