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To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (99934)	2/19/2007 2:16:05 PM
From: SiouxPal	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 362976

Shave Your Bush---Be Famous!!! Steven Weber 02.19.2007 Everyone will be president for 15 minutes. That's what it's come to in our Triumph of the Mediocre culture, where no-talent white trash pop singers bearing shaved crotches or shaved heads and deceased, drug-addled white trash sexpots can utterly dominate the news and keep the masses sated. But it's to be expected when our country is being jerked towards further humiliation by a snickering, white trash rich boy of only average intelligence who saunters through the White House as though he were wearing chaps, a jauntily cocked Stetson and a set of chrome spurs that scrape inelegantly along the marbled floors. Hell, this presidentin' is easy! A chimp could do it! Lower-the-Bar Bush, Bald&Bald Britney and the entire army of papier måché icons that permeate and dominate our media and, hence, our culture are all imploding, having thankfully reached the end of their shelf lives; their gaudy outer crusts buckling due to overexposure and absence of a sturdy foundation within (due to a lack of funding). The most recent and corrosive installment of "There's No There There and We Don't Care" is coming to a raucous close and it would serve humanity perfectly if we made sure this installment is the last. This one, even more than the "Coke Spoon on a Chain and Kicky Hairdo"s" installment or even the "Are You Now or Have You Ever Been" installment, has been by far the worst of them. There's been more rampant unrepentant materialism, more divisive religious extremism, more unbridled pursuit of low expectations, most widespread ignorance of precious history and the most egregiously corrupt, bumptious and careless presidential administration than ever before. All these things look good long enough to lure the sucker with a sweet-tooth, drumming up support invoking the slickest promises and the bleakest threats. Instead of the thouhtful and provocative our gazes are thrust towrd the gaudy and grotesque, the celebration of the second-rate, the apparent ease with which we could all stand out in today's mall mentality regardless of actual ability, experience or talent in media, in politics, in religion. Why bother to do the hard work when our inspirations, our goals, our leaders are only fair to middling? Why be a doctor when you could be a famous doctor? Why be an author when you could be a famous author? Why be an incestuous drunkard when you could appear on a talk show and be a famous incestuous drunkard? Forget "Join the Peace Corps". It's "Shave Your Bush---Be Famous!" Come on, it's easy! huffingtonpost.com