Gene Lyons

[mooseandsquirrel]

He is funny this week.

Never mind that in Texas iconography, a rancher on a bicycle may as well wear pantyhose and high heels. Real Men ride horses, a virile pastime I’m proud to share with a couple of million 12-year-old girls.

http://moose-and-squirrel.com/gene/gene.html

m&s

[Rey Pygsterio]

1. My favorite excerpt:

"Republicans countered with as vicious a smear against Kerry as we’ve seen since—well, since the last time George W. Bush ran against somebody with a higher Testosterone Quotient: the 2000 South Carolina primary, when little gremlins hinted to suggestible Moron Americans that John McCain’s years as a Vietnam POW had left him psychologically unfit, and, oh, did you know he had a black child? (An adopted daughter from Bangladesh.) As "The Daily Show’s" Jon Stewart put it, maybe they had him confused with Strom Thurmond."

Lyons is one of the best columnists in the country.

http://www.projectplayoffs.com

[newyawker99]

3. Hi Rey Pygsterio!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Miss Authoritiva]

2. Maybe I'm misremembering, but I thought the

Saturday Night Live sketch that Lyons calls "Raging Queens" was actually called "Swish Bucklers."

Any other first-generation SNL viewers out there who can help clear up my confusion?

This is absolutely critical to the internal logic of Lyons' piece.*

*Not really.