President Sideshow

All over the place today, I’ve been reading that President Bush is trying to do a “balancing act” with this immigration issue—not in the sense that he’s trying to find an appropriate compromise, but in that he’s trying to accommodate two different parts of his base and manage to be appealing to moderates.

Then I put in Suede’s Sci-Fi Lullabies for my afternoon soundtrack, the first track on which is “My Insatiable One,” one of my favorite Suede songs, which also happens to contains the line: On the highwire / Dressed in a leotard / There wobbles one hell of a retard…

And ever since, this is the picture that’s stuck in my head: