2 Year Anniversary Spectacular

Yep, this website was launched two years ago today, and in response we are having a two year anniversary spectacular. I originally suggested a five year anniversary special, but there's some legal reason why you are only to have as many year anniversary as you have actually been around. So it's a two year anniversary.

And so, borrowing from our friends on TV, we are having a clip show. Yep, get out the popcorn, lay back, and get ready to enjoy some of my favorite posts for the last couple of years. To start things off on a light note I thought we'd cover my top five posts dealing with that Commentator of Commentators Rush Limbaugh!

First of all the runner-ups, those columns that were good, but they just weren't quite good enough. These include the time that Rush talked about what American diplomacy should be and his ideas contrasted sharply with our current President's (February 15, 2003). There was that really weird exchange with a caller, leading into the idea that you can't express a negative idea in the War, or an Arab Newspaper might pick it up and our soldiers might read it (May 1, 2004). There was that laugh inducing moment when Rush Limbaugh claimed to be the best friend the working poor had ever had (June 10, 2003). And of course there was one of those times El Rushbo showed his mean side, suggesting that American Blacks have chosen to live on the plantation by remaining Democrats (July 29, 2003).

Well if those are the runner ups, can you imagine how wonderful our five finalists are? Well you'll have to imagine, because we've decided to keep that info to ourselves! No I'm just kidding.

5. May 5, 2004. Rush Limbaugh suggested that our fears that the Abu Ghraib scandal would inflame more hatred for us in the middle East were unfounded. Apparently the Terrorists already hate us as hard as they can, so this won't make them hate us any more. This was an easy enough argument to respond to, and I got to make Venn Diagrams. I enjoy commentating but I don't often get to draw Venn Diagrams.

4. June 19, 2004. Rush Limbaugh explains that Fahrenheit 9/11 isn't a movie. Nope. Not a movie.

3. June 23, 2003. You'd think claiming Fahrenheit 9/11 wasn't a movie would be hard to top, but on this day Rush claimed that the existence of affirmative action laws proved that we were not a racist society and so such laws were clearly not necessary. It's always a crowd pleaser to take on affirmative action, but your arguments should at least pretend to make sense.

2. January 28, 2004. Rush makes one of the harshest attacks on liberals I remember him making. A snippet. "You people [liberals] are reprehensible. You are absolutely reprehensible. You are the lowest piece of (blank) I've ever run to in this planet. I can't believe you people." Rush claims to be a harmless little goofball, but sometimes I wonder.

1. July 21, 2004. Eight Little Words. "My Friends, do you ever marvel . . . at me?" Yes, Rush. Sometimes we do. But probably not in the sense that you mean it.

Tune in later when we will have my five favorite humorous posts and five favorite serious posts. Also the first five callers will receive tickets to see Goobers on Parade.