What a Difference a Week Can Make, Round 2

My previous post, "What a Difference a Week Can Make," called attention to the New York Times' failed attempt to "spin" away the public's anger over the incompetence of both the Obama administration and the Congress as a "rising tide of populist anger." Not realizing that if the Earth's own spin was insufficient to accomplish this task and that not even the mighty New York Times had the proverbial snowball's chance, they failed miserably.

Instead of wasting any more time on the Obama administration, the editorial staff of the Times appeared to have devoted itself to wasting time on an interactive current events quiz called "Are you smart?" (If you are unable to resist the urge to take this quiz yourself, it can be found at this link. Also, see Note 1, below).

An example of the questions to be found on this test is presented (with slight modifications) here:

10. Animal lovers were fearful over the fate of an animal seen clinging to the space shuttle Discovery as it blasted off from its launch pad in Florida. What is/was the creature?

_ a nearsighted tree-hugger from Forest Guardians

_ a very disoriented snake

_ Barney Frank

_ a bat

Your humble correspondent accepted this challenge and managed to get 8 out of 10. If he can duplicate this success at wild guessing again next week, he will apply for $5 billion in official Federal Reserve, Hot of the Money Presses, Emergency Financial Recovery Confetti and then retire to the gaming tables at the Route 66 Casino, which is the Den of Iniquity closest to his humble abode. From there, he plans to generate enough winnings to not only pay for the Obama Financial Enema Plan but to also balance the federal budget, pay off the national debt, and bail out Great Britain; although France and Germany will be told to go straight to European Hell (see Note 2).

Note 1. The Times saw fit to include once again that most unflattering photograph of Barney Frank as well as the "Launch" button. One shudders to think of the mass social and psychological trauma that could result if the Taliban were to obtain a copy of Barney's driver's license photo and incorporate it into a weapon of mass destruction.

Note 2: The American-European Tourist's Definition of European Heaven and Hell

Heaven is a place where you are greeted by the British, fed by the French, entertained by the Italians, and the Germans are in charge.

Hell is a place where you are greeted by the French, fed by the British, entertained by the Germans, and the Italians are in charge.