You will recall that Professor Marvel, a.k.a. the Wizard of Oz, traveled by gasbag.
His very distant cousin in humbuggery, the Wizard of Ooze, likewise gets around on hot air, with an assist from other people’s money.
But I don’t expect we’ll see him at the 2025 Albuquerque International Balloon Festival, which begins today. Oh, sure, there’s a golf center at Balloon Fiesta Park, with a driving range and a six-hole pitch-and-putt course. But there is a distinct lack of screening foliage and even the most myopic of Repuglicunts could see him improving his lie.
The Great and Powerful Ooze might send the ICEholes in his stead (darn those bone spurs!). What a fine addition to the spectacle that would be — fats with tats in masks and battle-rattle snatching up brown people and stuffing them into locked baskets beneath unmarked black balloons, to be spirited away to Kansas or someplace even worse, flanked by escorts of flying monkeys.
But I expect those boyos are busy too, lumbering after nekkid bike riders in Stumptown or the more easily caught deep-dish pizza in Chicago.
Eat up, fellas! And don’t worry about the legs on the black olives. Ramón says they’re free-range. Organic.
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Nice ominous graphic over the flame POG. Well HE’S not nice but as they say, water seeks its own level. And the Democracy River is bone-butt dry.
The whole Oz riff really doesn’t work all that well. Our IRL Great and Powerful Ooze is a combo platter featuring bits of at least five characters: a wicked grifter with no brains, no heart, and no courage.
This administration encapsulates every “power corrupts” motif from all of the great Roman play, Italian operas, and films from around the globe.
Petey thought he was both Hitler and Patton last week, but didn’t see Francis Queeg in the mirror before he stepped onto the stage.
Imagining Pedro Hegseth as a flying monkey is not difficult to imagine.
Not difficult to imagine at all. That image is now all I see when I look at that locked in puberty blowhard.
I’ve had an interest in U.S. politics since JFK and I can’t recall seeing a more reprehensible assembly of toadies, bootlickers, and fartsniffers. This mob makes Nixon’s fixers look like the Founding Fathers.
So what you’re saying is, you don’t see DKG doing Team of Rivals II in the next couple of years?
How does one tattoo a flying monkey?
That’s an insult to monkeys!
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