Christine O'Donnell- "I Am Not A Witch"; (But Can She Float?)

Flash!

Hot off the presses and into cyber space.....


Delaware Republican Senatorial candidate Christine O'Donnell has told the world....

"I am NOT a witch!

But through our very thorough search of YouTube (so it must be true) we found this O'Donnell ad with proof of the contrary.



I dunno. Maybe it's a Halloween thing. Anyway, it's back to YouTube. Here's a tried and true method to determine if Ms. O'Donnell is, indeed, a witch.....courtesy of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.



If she can float.....she must be made of wood. And if she's made of wood....she can float like a duck. And if she weighs more than a duck.....

One more question.....is she responsible for turning this guy into a......

And he never got better?

Socialism As Explained By MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS

Socialism!!!! The word scares the bejeesus out of Middle Americans, conservatives, Dittoheads and Teabaggers. The GOP has been using the word to describe healthcare reform- though at today's summit with President Obama they have remained civil and not brought out any photoshopped pictures of Mr. Obama and any of Leon Trotsky's surviving grandchildren.

The President has been called a socialist by such experts in the field as Limbaugh, Hannity, and Beck....but I think most Americans are still confused....they still don't know the answers to the questions....

"What is a socialist? Is it like a communist? And What is a Marxist?"

Leave it to our British friends to explain it simply for an American audience.

Below, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, John Cleese, and Terry Jones take us into a fictional panel discussion involving the icons of Marxist-Socialism.

What's In A Name -"So Where's All The Trivia and The Crazy Rants?"

Some people may log on to this blog in search of obscure facts about individuals, places, and things, and are disappointed to see that there just ain't all the trivia they were expecting. So much for truth in advertising.

Others may visit, looking for Dennis Miller style angry monologues loaded with obscure cultural references that need annotations at every juncture. They too find that its lacking in the "rants" presented in the title of this blog.

So what gives? This is a blog that has minimal rants (usually involving political figures) and marginal trivia. So why the name?

The answer is....I didn't know where it came from. Until early this morning, that is. You see when I decided to start blogging I neglected to have a name for this bit of cyberspace. When I was asked to present a URL for this blog by GOOGLE my mind went blank. The first -and only- thing that popped into my mind was "Useless Trivia and Mindless Rants", kind of a backhanded poke at the pretentiousness and pompousness of blogging and bloggers- myself included. Because blogging itself can be an exercise in vanity, for better or worse. We're trying to show the rest of the world how smart we are- sometimes we get it right, other times we're lost. Admittedly.

The fact that I'm writing this and sharing with you is my admission of guilt.

Anyway....about this blog's name. I couldn't sleep last night so I popped on the TV and went to the ON DEMAND menu. IFC had the documentary about the history of MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS, featuring the surviving Pythons (John Cleese, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, and Michael Palin). I had watched chapter one previously and clicked on chapter two. The episode opened with the day the Pythons went into BBC headquarters in 1969 and talked about doing a show with the suits. The BBC brass gave them 13 shows initially- but when they asked the guys what was the name of the show they had none.

After throwing around some off the cuff names, they settled on Monty Python's Flying Circus. The name amused them, but made no sense- and it stuck. Some early audiences consisting mainly of elderly pensioners actually thought they were going to a circus- and they couldn't comprehend what they were seeing.

While watching the Python history my Inner Voice started babbling to me (again!).... the name "Monty Python's Flying Circus" was the inspiration for the name "Useless Trivia and Mindless Rants" .....but I didn't consciously know it until about 3:00 am this morning, after 801 previous posts and close to 15 months in the blogesphere.

Either that Inner Voice was right or else the old Ian Hunter album "You're Never Alone with A Schizophrenic" was more accurate than I had imagined.

So there you have it...the REAL reason for the name of this blog.

I'll see you later...."WE" must go food shopping.