Comments on: Impressive

By: DGs World By Big D

DGs World By Big D — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 12:36:38 +0000

I think Duane “The Dog” Chapman would be just fine on border control. Rowr!

And how about Simon and Paula judging the Inaugural Ball? Like, they can tell all of the really important performers how shitty they sound and degrade them, and then those annoying people from that Crapping With The Stars show can hold up little placards to tell Michelle and Obama all of the steps they’re missing on their initiation waltz.

It’ll be so awesome! Hollyweird in charge of DC.

Now that I think about it, the weirdness won’t change much. DC is pretty fucked up anyway.

By: T-Steel

T-Steel — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:08:18 +0000

C. Everett Koop aka “Surgeon General Colonel Sanders” is the man! And thanks for pointing out that book Kristin. I will check it out.

By: Phelps

Phelps — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:41:31 +0000

Of course I know Surgeon General Colonel Sanders. He’s a Reagan appointee.

By: Kristin

Kristin — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:31:20 +0000

@ T-Steel awesome someone else who knows who C. Everett Koop is. The book Critical Issues in Global Health is edited by Koop and it is a great read. Discusses everything from outlining the current health of different continents to varying components that affect public heatlh (e.g. undernutrition, interpersonal violence, terrorism, ….). This is a really good book and not filled with superfluous jargon.

By: T-Steel

T-Steel — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:28:41 +0000

What’s really funny is how many people DO NOT know who the current Surgeon-General is or what the office is really about. In fact, during Bush’s two terms, how many times have you heard about the Surgeon-General. Not a one.

Look, out of all the cabinet positions that Obama can fill with “fluff” (and being a neurosurgeon and associate professor really isn’t fluff), this is the office to do it. The Surgeon-General office functions primarily as a bully pulpit (one the C. Everett Koop did a great job of using). Dr. Sanjay Gupta entire persona is from the bully pulpit. Yes, the Surgeon-General is head of the Public Health Service Commissioned Corp (and the position is confers a military rank). But this is Public Health. And Sanjay Gupta’s entire angle is about Public Health.

What I see here is just an easy dig at President-Elect Obama. But in all truth, this post is not going to bite Obama in the arse. Now Leon Pinetta… well…. uh…

By: R

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:22:41 +0000

Did you see the Daily Show take on Gupta as Surgeon General? OMFG that bit had me ROLLING.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=215313&title=Medicine-Cabinet

By: Phelps

Phelps — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:52:42 +0000

I have to give him that one. That guy is such a good spy that no one even had any idea that he was in the spy business.

By: Kristin

Kristin — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:31:07 +0000

mmmmm, yyyeeaaaahhhh,mmmmmmm. What no mention of his CIA pick. You are slipping Phelps.