Health Care Passed. Is Rush Limbaugh Bound for Costa Rica?

For years, conservatives have ridiculed boisterous liberal celebrities like Alec Baldwin for promising to leave the country if such-and-so happened. When the political issue comes to pass, the celebrity invariably stays in the US, and the Rush Limbaughs of the world point and laugh. But now the shoe is on the other hoof, so to speak.

Rush declared that if health care passed, he'd leave the country, and go to Costa Rica. To be fair, he did include the caveat that if in five years, everything in the health care reform package was implemented, then he'd go. So he's got until 2015. And he's even welshing on that, as he's convinced his flock (go look, they're everywhere on the interwebs defending him) that he only meant he'd go there for health care. Or Viagra. Or very young male escorts. Or something.

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Health Care Bill passes: Rush Limbaugh off to Costa Rica



It's all over Twitter: Health Care Bill passes: Rush Limbaugh off to Costa Rica! Apparently Rush Limbaugh said he would seek medical care in Coast Rica if Obama's Health Care Reform Bill passed. . .

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More on the Wanda Sykes Faux Outrage

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I had another thought on the Wanda Sykes/Rush Limbaugh faux outrage story. While reading some of the ludicrous bloviating on some of the right-wing blogs, I ran across a common theme.

Some would comment that they knew somebody who experienced kidney failure, and how horrible it was of Sykes to invoke these painful realities. To these people--giving them the benefit of the doubt that their stories are true--I cast no dispersions aspersions about their personal stories. I find no humor in actual kidney failure. But their "pain" is felt by countless others for countless reasons.

If you know somebody who has been a victim of heart trouble, cancer, suicide--or hell even something less physically troubling like adultery--you've been in the exact situation. It will suddenly seem like every TV program has a story about it. Even comedy programs, or stand-up specials will suddenly feel like they apply to your situation. It just happens.

Now, Sykes was very likely not wishing an actual physical malady onto Limbaugh. She was completing a joke that was the counterpart to Limbaugh wishing for President Obama's agenda to fail. She needed something about Limbaugh to fail, and she picked "kidney failure" as her stinger. She could have picked anything.

I'm no comedy writer, but I'll take a stab at it:

"Rush Limbaugh wants Obama to fail? Well, I want his penis to fail! Wait, it already did! That's why he needed the Viagra!"

Now tell me honestly, do you really think that would have attracted any more or less faux outrage than Sykes' actual routine?

John McCain Stumped by Viagra & Birth Control

Right up front, I'll tell you that this is a silly post. John McCain is asked what he thinks about the fact that insurance covers Viagra, but not birth control. There, McCain goes blank. For a looong time. I kept flashing on The Simpsons, where Homer is trying to concentrate, and instead has a 30s cartoon with organ-grinder music playing in his head.

If I knew how to edit video, I just might have a hit YouTube video on my hands!

Science is Cool: Watermelon Nature's Viagra?

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And here, cantaloupe has always been my favorite melon. . .

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Scientists: Watermelon yields Viagra-like effects

A slice of cool, fresh watermelon is a juicy way to top off a Fourth of July cookout and one that researchers say has effects similar to Viagra - but don't necessarily expect it to keep the fireworks all night long. . .

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