Bombs are fallin'! Let's knock the bathroom wall in!
As things continue to heat up in the Middle East, with no diplomatic solution to the crisis between Israel, Hezebollah, and Hamas in site, Dave takes an opportunity to admit that he isn't very handy when it comes to household remodeling projects.
Neat-o.
I've heard conservatives accused of changing the subject when things aren't going their way, but this is simply ridiculous. To be fair, however, I have noticed that both Dave Reinhard and his left-wing counterpart David Sarasohn intersperse their more seriously-minded columns with tales and travails of their domestic life and the insights they've gleamed from daily living in Portland.
That's all fine and dandy. But perhaps the space for Reinhard's straight-outta-Everybody Loves Raymond fluff piece might have been further inside the Sunday O's Opinion section, and not under the picture of bombed-out Beirut that graced the main page?
And does anybody else find it a bit interesting that Dave didn't take his Sunday column- which ultimately has more readership, I would imagine- to continue to make his case for Bush to assist Israel, either complicitly or by merely standing out of the way? Perhaps Dave's realizing that Bush's "scorched-earth" policies over the past half-decade have yet to lead to a further instabilized world, with Islamist terrorists being able to increase their range of attack inside of Israel and, by proxy, us.
So Dubya's war on terror has made the world more of a safe haven for terrorism? Well, golly, sounds like it's time for a column on bathroom tile, and ignoring reality....
Neat-o.
I've heard conservatives accused of changing the subject when things aren't going their way, but this is simply ridiculous. To be fair, however, I have noticed that both Dave Reinhard and his left-wing counterpart David Sarasohn intersperse their more seriously-minded columns with tales and travails of their domestic life and the insights they've gleamed from daily living in Portland.
That's all fine and dandy. But perhaps the space for Reinhard's straight-outta-Everybody Loves Raymond fluff piece might have been further inside the Sunday O's Opinion section, and not under the picture of bombed-out Beirut that graced the main page?
And does anybody else find it a bit interesting that Dave didn't take his Sunday column- which ultimately has more readership, I would imagine- to continue to make his case for Bush to assist Israel, either complicitly or by merely standing out of the way? Perhaps Dave's realizing that Bush's "scorched-earth" policies over the past half-decade have yet to lead to a further instabilized world, with Islamist terrorists being able to increase their range of attack inside of Israel and, by proxy, us.
So Dubya's war on terror has made the world more of a safe haven for terrorism? Well, golly, sounds like it's time for a column on bathroom tile, and ignoring reality....
posted by true_slicky at 10:01 PM
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OK, so this column looks like it was just phoned in, but at least now we know why we've hardly heard from Dave these past few weeks -- he's been remodeling his bathroom!
At first I thought that his tale of incompetence in laying tile was to serve Dave as a clever metaphor for the job the Bush Administration has done in governing the county, but I guess instead that those RNC talking points were a little late in coming, and Dave, having nothing else to say, fell back to a Dave Barry-style hilarious home improvement projects gone awry column, recalling nothing so much as a 1950's sitcom dad or Tom Hanks in "The Money Pit." What inspiration.
BTW, how much do you think that "savior-remodeler Scott Riggs of Riggs & Martin" discounted his bill for the free plug?
After reading this worthless Reinhard column I now know there are (at least) two things for which Dave has no skill.
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