Friday, September 18, 2009

Farewell, Fogle, you're being de-Pluto-ized. From here on, just an ice planetoid

When we first stumbled across his blog, he was "transforming South Carolina politics."

He was bragging about getting a cease and desist letter from Jake Gyllenhaal's lawyer over what hotel the guy was staying in while filing a movie that imploded.

He was a talking head for a news magazine in the runup to the SC presidential primary last year.

His crack, inside the beltway, sources assured him Virginia officials were rushing back to Richmond in advance of the Democratic Convention to fend off a succession crisis Governor Tim Kaine's certain selection as Obama's running mate would trigger.

He leveraged a tip that the state tourism department had spent just under $5000 on an campaign to persuade gullible gay English tourists they'd find a welcome for their transient funds in South Carolina. Stephen Colbert mentioned it, which just thrilled him to bits. he piled on a campaign against the City of Columbia for a grant he claimed was funding a performance by the drag artist RuPaul, who apparently scares him way big.

Then he railed against gay congressional candidate Linda Ketner, and the elections happened...and he pretty much ceased to have any impact on anything.

We've lost track of the blog redesigns and the self-aggrandizing promos- taxpayer tribune, earner of media, cultural critic of performances he never attended.

"Transforming South Carolina politics" disappeared.

What're the burning issues obsessing McLovin' today? A 5'4 cheerleader killed a 10 foot gator. A Bank of America branch manager in Gaffney was afraid of the sort of ad hominems Pudge so freely deals out and pulled some flags from the roadside pending a service member's funeral procession. A state representative who got smeared by an anonymous, pre-election letter alleging she had a thing with the Luv Guv has fled a suit against nobody. Governor Sanford has created a broadband advisory committee. Craigslist is still not getting Scoop Doggy any action.

Next to this shinola, even Cyclops' masturbatory recreations of Star Trek episodes look interesting.

1 comment:

  1. Please do not use Pluto as an example here or blindly accept the controversial demotion of Pluto, done by only four percent of the International Astronomical Union, most of whom are not planetary scientists. Their decision was immediately opposed by hundreds or professional astronomers led by Dr. Alan Stern, Principal Investigator of NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto. These scientists favor a broader planet definition that includes any non-self-luminous spheroidal body orbiting a star. This gives our solar system 13 planets and counting: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris. Pluto is NOT an "icy planetoid."

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