While I was on vacation, there was apparently a fracas in California set off by some remarks by our beloved Goobernator in Ontario, where he called Democratic lawmakers whom he blamed for delaying the budget "girlie-men".
O.K., I am no fan of the guy, as anyone who knows me can attest. (Heck, just browse through this blog.)
But...
Remember Hans und Franz from Saturday Night Live? You know, the Mike Myers routine? You can rent his Best Of tape if you missed it. (I actually rarely watched SNL because I couldn't stay awake late nough.) Anyway... it's a routine about two German-accented bodybuilders who frequently invoke the term "girlie-men", and they're clearly meant to poke fun at Ah-nold.
So if it's OK to make fun of the guy, his accent, and his persona, why is it not cool for him to mock it himself? Surely a little post-modern self-referential humor is appropriate?
I hope people realize that the overreaction to this just makes the overreactors look really dumb, and, worse than that, humorless.
Hopefully by now everyone has calmed down about this and we can get back to being angry at him for relevant reasons, of which there are many.
Edited to add: yeah, like the horrible workers' comp "reform" he pushed through. Story is in the business section of the Chron today, but not on their website: "New laws cut benefits for injuries on the job" by Steve Lawrence, AP.
