The Zen of Lil' Jon

I had been out of the country for several years, when I heard the news the David Chappelle had turned down fifty million dracma for additional seasons of The Chappelle Show. I remember thinking, what kind of idjiot would turn down fifty million dracma!!

A genius.

Sometime later, I got to watch the two seasons of The Chappelle Show, and I couldn't stop laughing. Chappelle created so many characters, and pointed out so many absurdities, that I realized (belatedly), we'd lost something when he stopped producing.

Of all his characters, it was his send up off the rapper Lil' Jon that has come to mean the most to me. By studying Lil' Jon, I've been able to achieve an inner harmony with my outer katra.



Sundays, I wake up early, turn on the coffee pot, flick on CNN, fire up my computer, and check out the week in review. It's times like that, when the voice of Lil' Jon comes to me, as if in a audiovision.

For example:

Sadr has decided (for no reason) to "rejoin" the Iraqi government.

WHAT??

Sadr has decided (for no reason) to "rejoin" the Iraqi government.

WHAT??

Sadr has decided (for no reason) to "rejoin" the Iraqi government.

OOOHKAY!!

Amadenijahd blames sanctions for the suckosity of the Iranian economy.

WHAT??

Amadenijahd blames sanctions for the suckosity of the Iranian economy.

WHAT??

Amadenijahd blames sanctions for the suckosity of the Iranian economy.

WHAT??

Amadenijahd blames sanctions for the suckosity of the Iranian economy.

OOHKAY!!

'Merkin furry policy enrages Europe's mooslum yoofs.

WHAT??

'Merkin furry policy enrages Europe's mooslum yoofs.

WHAT??

'Merkin furry policy enrages Europe's mooslum yoofs.

WHAT??

'Merkin furry policy enrages Europe's mooslum yoofs.

OOHKAY!!

OK?

Best headline, though, while looking for links, was this: "Troop ‘surge’ unlikely to help gay Iraqis".

'“For the foreseeable future, Iraq will remain very unsafe for lesbians and gays,” said Peter Tatchell, spokesperson for the British gay rights group OutRage.'

Earth ends; women, children hardest hit...as Taranto would say.

Funny thing, yet again we see the Arab world lagging behind confessional politics. A Sh'ia/Sunni divide? Pikers. They should spend awhile examining the Hyphenated-Hyphenated-Hyphenated-American-Hyphenated Divide.

WHAT??