Gordon Brown’s cry of impotence [GORDON BROWN STANDS NAKED: Headlines to ponder]

MaCleans.ca ^ | 4 March 2010 | Mark Steyn

[JLS]

If he rages naked at his aides it’s because he can do nothing about anything that matters

In the old days, I used to wake up to the morning paper, neatly folded on a silver salver and presented by my valet along with the kedgeree and the brace of grilled quail. Now I wake up to an inbox of Internet stories forwarded by readers that cumulatively feel like the front page from some bizarro kingdom cooked up for an unpersuasive dystopian satire. For example, a headline from the Washington Examiner:

“Transsexual Cabaret Performer Vomits on Susan Sarandon.”

An accident? Or the pilot for a hot new reality format? In other news, the London Evening Standard reports:

“Number 10 Denies Naked Gordon Brown Called Aide C-word.”

[JLS]

Steyn looks at headlines around the world and their implications of the passing scene.

[JLS]

Steyn discusses the passing scene as viewed from headlines. You ping list will really enjoy at least one really great zinger in this column.

[GeronL]

Dystopia is one thing, civilizational collapse is another.

[Responsibility2nd]

“Transsexual Cabaret Performer Vomits on Susan Sarandon.”

 

 

Hey now. Those were some great threads.

 

Transsexual Performer Throws Up on Susan Sarandon (On Purpose - Far-Left Sarandon Loved It)
	02/23/2010 2:49:50 PM PST · by MindBender26 · 37 replies · 1,002+ views NY Press ^ Last night at (New York City nightclub) The Box’s third anniversary party, actress Susan Sarandon got a special gift in the form of a lap full of vomit. By some stroke of luck, the messenger of the on-purpose puke was Rose Wood, one of our favorite local cabaret performers. We caught up with Wood, who was about to drift off to sleep just as we rang, to find out what went down. “[It was a] fitting time for an outrageous act: the third anniversary of The Box. Everybody wants to offer safe and ordinary, not The Box! So thank you...
I Hereby Volunteer to Vomit on Susan Sarandon
	02/23/2010 10:55:49 AM PST · by UltraConservative · 38 replies · 1,163+ views BenjaminShapiro.com ^ | 2-23-10 | Ben Shapiro According to James Hirsen of Examiner.com, Susan Sarandon had an odd night recently: Oscar winning actress Susan Sarandon has had a bad time of it lately. The actress recently separated from her long time partner, actor Tim Robbins. Sarandon attended the third anniversary of The Box in New York's Lower East Side. A transsexual cabaret performer named Rose Wood engaged in projectile vomiting on stage and hit Sarandon with it. Standing nearby were Scarlett Johansson and Liev Schreiber. According to Wood it was not intended as an affront to the actress and she didn't take it that way. “Apparently [Sarandon]...
Transsexual cabaret performer vomits on Susan Sarandon
	02/22/2010 10:28:12 AM PST · by Weird Tolkienish Figure · 66 replies · 2,693+ views Examiner ^ | 02/21/10 at 9:18 am | James Hirsen Oscar winning actress Susan Sarandon has had a bad time of it lately. The actress recently separated from her long time partner, actor Tim Robbins. Sarandon attended the third anniversary of The Box in New York's Lower East Side.A A transsexual cabaret performer named Rose Wood engaged in projectile vomiting on stage and hit Sarandon with it . Standing nearby were Scarlett Johansson and Liev Schreiber. According to Wood it was not intended as an affront to the actress and she didn't take it that way. “Apparently [Sarandon] got a big kick out of it. She squealed with surprise and...
Susan Sarandon vomited on at The Box
	02/20/2010 7:59:54 PM PST · by Free ThinkerNY · 234 replies · 3,908+ views nypost.com ^ | Feb. 20, 2010 It was not Susan Sarandon's night at The Box, where throngs of partygoers stayed from late Thursday into the early morning to help the Lower East Side burlesque club ring in its third anniversary. Sarandon, who recently separated from Tim Robbins, got an unpleasant party favor when transsexual performer Rose Wood vomited on stage directly onto the Oscar winner. A witness reports, "She actually handled it very well. She was laughing while a bunch of guys came over to towel her off."

[Retired Greyhound]

His Re-election slogan: A Future Fair for All.

Soooo creepy.

[Rummyfan]

Still, whatever its deficiencies in reducing pregnancy, you’d have thought that an education system that teaches schoolgirls how to perform oral sex wouldn’t also have to schedule time to teach them how to consume a hot dog safely. Multi-tasking, people!

LOL! The insanity of our times!

[JLS]

Bingo that was the zinger I meant in my post to knews_hound.

[DM1]

Gordon Brown always reminded me of Terry Jones from Monty Python

[knews_hound]

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[Tax-chick]

Still, whatever its deficiencies in reducing pregnancy, you’d have thought that an education system that teaches schoolgirls how to perform oral sex wouldn’t also have to schedule time to teach them how to consume a hot dog safely. Multi-tasking, people!

Mark, that's on the "sick" side of "brilliant."

I'd sure like to be around (and slightly intoxicated) when Mark Steyn really lets his hair down!

[kitkat]

Steyn is FABULOUS.

[AmishDude]

Evidently, an infatuation with Joe Biden is the one illness for which there’s no wait time in British Columbia.

[zeugma]

Still, whatever its deficiencies in reducing pregnancy, you’d have thought that an education system that teaches schoolgirls how to perform oral sex wouldn’t also have to schedule time to teach them how to consume a hot dog safely.

That's either fall-out-of-your-chair funny, or cry into your coffee sad.

[irv]

No one can make the tragic decline of Western civilization as hilarious as Mark Steyn.

[Albion Wilde]

Yo, I live in a townhouse and the walls aren’t THAT thin, but every time I read a Steyn column, I scare the neighbors with my hooting and cackling...

[Albion Wilde]

I'd sure like to be around (and slightly intoxicated) when Mark Steyn really lets his hair down!

Thanks for the ping. This man is our generation's Mencken, Twain and Wilde rolled into one. How about these?

"Sure, those jihad boys got lucky and took out a couple skyscrapers, but the old can’t-do spirit kicked in and a mere nine years later we’ve got a seven-storey hole on which seven billion dollars have been lavished... The non-official estimated date of completion for the new 1 World Trade Center... is said to be 2018. Don’t hold your breath.... It doesn’t matter now what the eventual replacement building is at Ground Zero. The hole is the memorial: a gaping, multi-storey, multi-billion-dollar hole, profound and eloquent in its nullity."

And:

"...what LBJ’s Great Society did to the black family in America, Britain’s postwar welfare state has done to the general population."

[Tax-chick]

Yep, those are good, too!

[NZerFromHK]

Thanks for the ping as well. I notice Steyn has long been banished from press pages in the United Kingdom. And 99.99% of Britons, even the most conservative ones, had dismissed him as being “too overgeneralising and scare-mongering” etc etc.

When a chronically ill patient refuses the necessary drastic lifestyle change prescriptions but is instead looking for some extra placebo, it may be the right time to prepare for the obituary.

And in this case, the patient is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.