Apr 112012
 

Dead birds are falling from the skies by the thousands! Tens of thousands more fish and crabs are washing up dead on beaches everywhere! Whales and dolphins are committing mass suicide!

The planet’s magnetic pole shifted 40 kilometers last year! Massive sink holes are swallowing cities! The icecaps are melting! Crazy weather – eclipses – Loonie parity with the US dollar – Snooki wrote a book!

What’s going on here? This can’t be blamed on cow farts, can it? Incandescent lightbulbs? Or the Sasquatchian carbon footprints of every human on Earth?

No, my friends, the actual cause of our global spin into oblivion is Lady Gaga.

Yes! The Mayans noted “Gaga” on the last date of their calendar. Nostradamus predicted Lady Gaga in a recent reconstruction of his notes. Even Paul the Psychic Octopus chose Lady Gaga as the Harbinger of Doom moments before he became calamari fra diavolo!

Yes, Lady Gaga, the woman who wore the dress made out of raw meat, the woman who puts live fireworks in her bra, the woman who bathes herself in blood while she sings, the woman who – cover your children’s ears – recorded a duet with Michael Bolton!

Perhaps without malice, this bleach blonde bisexual makes Madonna look like an old lady. Oh wait, Madonna is an old lady. Well, she’s over the top, anyway, and it’s throwing everything off balance.

If Lady Gaga plans a concert on December 21, 2012, we’re hooped! All I can say is gird your loins, my friends, gird your loins. The worst is yet to come!

On the other hand…

It’s a well-known fact that all these things – dead wildlife, the ever-shifting magnetic pole, unpredictable weather, eclipses, melting icecaps – all these things happen all the time. They’ve happened regularly throughout history. They’ll continue to happen. It’s just part of nature.

Not an alien invasion. Not a conspiracy. Not global warming. Not even Lady Gaga.

I just hope she avoids a December 21, 2012 concert. Better safe than sorry.

Mar 112011
 

Can you believe that there’s a country that forces its children work in factories? Wages are 44 cents an hour. Unions are illegal. Government enforces censorship with violence. Critics of the government are thrown in dungeons. Tax fraud, theft and smuggling are punishable by death. Newspapers, books, and the Internet are severely censored. Religious and ethnic discrimination are state-sponsored. Women suffer forced abortions and sterilization to control the population.

Oh – I’m not talking about Cuba here. Iʼm describing China.

The U.S. has no problem with Americans visiting China, our chief supplier of poisoned dog food and lead-tainted toys – not to mention off-the-scale pollution and BILLIONS of cases of human rights violations. But Cuba? Americans can’t come here.

To be accurate, the U.S. does allow some Americans to visit Cuba. Cuban-Americans, reporters and politicians can apply for permission. Last year, about 6,000 permits were issued to Americans to visit Cuba. Last year more than 200,000 Americans actually visited Cuba.

Thank you, Canada. While American Customs agents are hassling me over my nail scissors and tube of toothpaste, Canada Customs [agents] were allowing me to exercise my free choice. And Cuban Customs [agents] do NOT stamp American passports. Come on down!

All this is done on the wink-wink, nudge-nudge level. While Iʼd like to see Canada grow a pair and tell the U.S. to drop this sham embargo, I can understand why Canada doesn’t want to give lose the revenue of a quarter million round trip vacation packages to Cuba every year.

The United States lies that this is a United Nations-backed embargo. Letʼs see, the latest UN vote was 173 countries against the embargo, and 3 for it. Three. The United States, Israel, and the Marshall Islands. Thereʼs a country called the Marshal Islands?

The Governator – Arnold Schwarzenegger – and President Bill Clinton love their Cuban cigars, but YOU canʼt have any. So whoʼs really being punished?

The details hurt my head – admit it, they give you a headache, too. If we actually paid attention to whoʼs paying off whom, weʼd all demand that this absurdity stop immediately. Or as American voters, weʼd have to accept culpability for Americaʼs unjust management of embargoes.

Whoa – that was way too many syllables. Iʼm on vacation, after all. Hey Fidel, another mojito over here, por favor.