Live Report From New Jersey

The Lord of Truth lives in New Jersey -- even he's trying to figure out why, but that's another post for another time. In any case, he and his lovely wife went shopping this afternoon and he overheard this hysterical conversation between two checkout girls...

Girl 1: “Hey girl did you vote today?”
Girl 2: “Nah – you?”
Girl 1: “Yeah – I voted for Corzime. I had to, that other guy…whasshisname… he don’t want women getting mammograms and shit”
Girl 2: “….wha?”
Girl 1: “That guy? He won’t let us get mammograms.”
Girl 2: “Get what?”
Girl 1: “Mammograms. Ain’t you know what a mammogram is?”
Girl 2: “What?”
Girl 1: “Mammograms! You know what that is?”
Girl 2: “Paper or plastic? Hey can you come help me bag?”

I'm amazed those girls haven't found their way into management positions yet.

The exchange brings to mind a classic Simpsons quote, from the Season Two episode where Burns ran for governor. His Election Eve dinner with the Simpsons, designed to show he was in touch with the common man, fails when Marge sabotages the meal by serving Burns a mutated fish from his power plant, which Burns can't eat. His reaction when leaving is one of the better summaries of how politicians probably think...

Burns: "This anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes has cost me the election, and yet if I were to have them killed, I would be the one to go to jail. That's democracy for you."

Smithers: "You are noble and poetic in defeat, sir."

You know, Jon Corzine is a bald corrupt billionaire... I wonder what Burns looks like with some more weight and a beard...