05.06.11

Won’t someone please buy Nugent’s records again?

Posted in Extremism, Ted Nugent at 2:53 pm by George Smith

If only to slow down his print output.

As a writer, Ted Nugent is a useful metaphor for systemic fail in America. While Uncle Ted is big on talking up merit and innate ability as a basic foundation for success, if such things were even the slightest requirements for his getting book contracts or print space, Nugent would never have earned enough money to buy even one weekday copy of a Michigan newspaper.

Good news, lads! Good news! Howard knows how to spell the word ‘cockroach.’

This week’s discouraging exhibit of solid C minus high school English essaying, notable for record-breaking use of the names of common arthropods:

“flea-infested maggots” — (1), not biologically possible

“subhuman goat ticks” — (1), redundant

“rabid dogs” — technically, not arthropod, but what-the-hey!

“cockroaches” (6 invocations, including once in the subhed)

As for the last reference, you know Nugent really wanted to use “cocksuckers” but WaTimes editorial policy still isn’t quite ready to let him go that far.

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