Jokes

It's been a busy few days, and I've neglected this silly editorial from the Houston Comical.

It's so awful it's hard to know where to begin. But two things stand out:

What is up with the use of the term "crepuscular?" (memo to the editors: turn off the thesaurus and write for your audience, not to mention yourselves)

And they don't seriously want us to believe that all of the problems they document with Mayor Pothole's administration (and many more they don't) are caused by term limits? Because I read it that way. It must be a joke that I'm too tired to understand at the moment.

Speaking of jokes, Thom Marshall (one of the Comical's many jokes who pose as columnists) also criticizes Mayor Pothole (big joke). At least he doesn't suggest a repeal of term limits as the solution (I don't think; I must admit my eyes glazed over about halfway through). But any column that quotes a Kenny Rogers song definitely falls into the joke category, I would think.

(11/07/02 Update) Of course, the biggest joke is that the Comical twice endorsed Mayor Pothole (or should I call him Mayor Sinkhole now?) in the last election, when major problems were evident and a credible challenger (likely to be Houston's next mayor) was on the ballot.

[Posted at 23:50 CST on 11/06/02] [Link]