Fantasy democracy
It's New Year's Day and every football addict should be getting their fill of the game today except that the corporatists have decided that there is more money to be made by prolonging the season. Whatever...
My son plays in several fantasy football leagues and this made me think that until we the people get a real democracy - it might be useful to start a fantasy democracy league.
Since this is probably a marketable idea I'm going to start by making some dictatorial corporate rules that provide me many advantages. The first rule is that I make all the rules. The second rule is that my fantasy team gets control of anything that could be construed as a weapon other than pen knives and nail clippers. Rule number three is if you don't like what's happening refer to rule number one.
Magnanimously, I'm going to pick the W's team first - the great "decider" is the captain and cheerleader, and his roster includes Dick Cheney, Rumsfield, Tom Delay, the Christian Reconstructionists, the Heritage Foundation, Newt the Gingrich, Grover Norquist, his daddy, mommy and brother, FOX News, Tony Snow, and the rest of the multinational corporatists, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and other picks to be purchased later.
I'll take Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Paine, Abraham Lincoln, Henry David Thureau, Mahatma Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Jr., George Orwell, Stephen Colbert and others to be named later.
I think that I'll start Ghandi as President and Franklin as VP, and it sure is fun to try to figure out which positions to put the others into. Would you start Orwell or Colbert as press secretary?
W is concerned about how we'll keep score - he wants to count the bodies, McDonald's, Mega Malls, shopping days until Christmas, size of the military, days he spends at the ranch, number of standardized tests we can give the poor, and the like.
Since I make the rules - I rejected all of those.
Which team do you think the majority of Americans would root for and how would they like to keep score?
My son plays in several fantasy football leagues and this made me think that until we the people get a real democracy - it might be useful to start a fantasy democracy league.
Since this is probably a marketable idea I'm going to start by making some dictatorial corporate rules that provide me many advantages. The first rule is that I make all the rules. The second rule is that my fantasy team gets control of anything that could be construed as a weapon other than pen knives and nail clippers. Rule number three is if you don't like what's happening refer to rule number one.
Magnanimously, I'm going to pick the W's team first - the great "decider" is the captain and cheerleader, and his roster includes Dick Cheney, Rumsfield, Tom Delay, the Christian Reconstructionists, the Heritage Foundation, Newt the Gingrich, Grover Norquist, his daddy, mommy and brother, FOX News, Tony Snow, and the rest of the multinational corporatists, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and other picks to be purchased later.
I'll take Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Paine, Abraham Lincoln, Henry David Thureau, Mahatma Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Jr., George Orwell, Stephen Colbert and others to be named later.
I think that I'll start Ghandi as President and Franklin as VP, and it sure is fun to try to figure out which positions to put the others into. Would you start Orwell or Colbert as press secretary?
W is concerned about how we'll keep score - he wants to count the bodies, McDonald's, Mega Malls, shopping days until Christmas, size of the military, days he spends at the ranch, number of standardized tests we can give the poor, and the like.
Since I make the rules - I rejected all of those.
Which team do you think the majority of Americans would root for and how would they like to keep score?
posted by Mark Sherman at 8:05 AM
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