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I'm sitting at home, fighting off a migraine, and watching Dennis Miller's Las Vegas HBO special.

Man, I'd forgotten how much I love Miller.

For your amusement, an exerpt:

"My god, I cannot believe the men and women that we have chosen to be our leaders. You watch the inhouse footage of these congressional hearings and I think what sort of empty-headed pez-dispenser seance am I watching here? Am I supposed to take these guys seriously?  Al Sharpton?  Al Sharpton's ramblings have gone so far afield now they're going to have to install an onstar button in the middle of his forehead.  Dennis Kucinich?  What's going on the woozy dreamland of that skull jelly?  When Kuchinich had his term at the plate, he ran Cleveland so far into the ground that it almost became Cleveland.  Robert Byrd, the senior senator from West Virginia?  This guy's, y'know...they talk about him being statesman like and avuncular...he's neither of those. He's insane.  The reason he's insane is because he's 213 years old, for god's sake.  Isn't it time for him to step down now, go back to West Virginia and become a greeter at KKK Mart? Hey let's face facts, if Roberty Byrd were your grandfather and he went off on one of these demented skreeds at Thanksgiving dinner, everybody would sit there, looking at up him, smiling and then as soon as he left the room someone would say "Hey, what the fuck are we going to do about Grandpa?  What was that? Is he eating his own shit? Is anybody keeping an eye on him?"  Harry Reid, from here in Nevada?  Listen, I don't know much about him but I do know that's possibly the most boring human I've ever seen in my life.  Whenever he gives a speech, I keep expecting the team from CSI to run on, put a chalk outline around the podium.  Y'know Harry, if my yawn gets any bigger, they're going to have to assign it a hurricane name. "

Dammit. It hurts to laugh..

Update:

"Is IRAQ an optimum scenario?  No, it isn't - is it ever in war?  Do I wish there was a country called Al-Quaidia where we could have started all this?  Of course I do.  But guess what? There isn't.  So Saddam Hussein and his punk sons were just unlucky enough to draw the Wonka Ticket in the Asshole lottery."

"They fought with great alacratiy.  They were killing suicide bombers.  Think about that.  When a guy's whole thing in life is to kill himself and you get there first?  You are hauling ass, my friends.  If these soldiers have a problem, it's these insane rules of engagement.  And that, Mr. President, is a mistake you are making.  These kids have to get shot at before they shoot back, and that is just wrong."

Sounds like our Peacekeeping troops.

Do I agree with him? Not necessarily.  But he's funny, and he uses the English Language in a way that very few comedians ever both with today.