Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Al Franken vs. Norm Coleman as compared to WB's Road Runner vs. Wile E. Coyote.

The great animator Chuck Jones, when discussing his Road Runner cartoon series, used a phrase from, I believe, the philosopher Santayana, when discussing Wile E. Coyote's continual efforts to defeat the titular speeding bird. I remember the phrase as being something like: "A fanatic redoubles his efforts when he's forgotten his aim [surmising"aim" can be a synonym for "purpose" in this context]."

Exhibit A: Norm Coleman's Coyote-esque efforts to ignore logic and plain-to-see vote counts and boldly deny former comedian/liberal commentator/Bill Clinton acolyte Al Franken a Senate seat--regardless of how many times Coleman has cartoon boulders fall on him or one-way-down trips into painted desert canyons.

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/04/14/coleman/index.html

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