joetheplumber
Sometimes stuff keeps floating to the surface no matter how many times you flush. Joe the Plumber has re-appeared in the culture. He's may not be an actual pipeman, but he's proving adept at plumbing new depths of political ignorance.Check out this nearly incomprehensible TV ad for a 900 number...
Punditry: Performance art with a paycheck
8:00AM 1/24/2009
As America moves past the first few weeks of the new year, it feels like everyone is taking stock, considering options, and generally making plans for surviving 2009. Newspapers, magazines, and blogs are rolling out lists of the best companies that are hiring, the best jobs that are open, and the...
Strange jobs are probably common, but I had to laugh and wonder about job discrimination the other day when I came across an odd job description for the regular, everyday job of copy writer. The ad on Craigslist seemed straightforward enough, but the more I thought about it, the more it seemed like...
Last week I watched Sarah Palin struggling to find names and professions that had the same traction as Joe the Plumber. In the spirit of helpfulness, I offer these candidates:
1. Paradise, the prostitute2. Klinton, the crack dealer3. Wendell, the wife-beater4. Uberdingle, the rapper5. Miss...
Keeping your money green: Plumbers are the future?
7:26AM 10/27/2008
One of my wisest friends is encouraging her son to skip college and learn a trade. Her thinking: living a sustainable lifestyle means growing your own vegetables and fruits, baking your own bread, and fixing your own pipes. Her hopes and dreams were eerily foreshadowing of the great national...
More Joe the Plumber: It's really about the dream
10:01AM 10/23/2008
The controversy still rages over Joe the Plumber, who has been raked over the coals by the media and bloggers for asking presidential candidate Barack Obama a question about his tax plan. He's been accused of being a plant and an outright liar, and his divorce and delinquent taxes have been...
Joe the Plumber, friend of American taxpayers, has taken a beating over the last couple of days for daring to ask Barack Obama a question many of us would like to ask. He wanted to know how Obama's tax increases on "the wealthy" might affect him if he buys a plumbing business. How dare he ask such...
John McCain's pal 'Joe the Plumber' is a tax delinquent
5:30PM 10/16/2008
Like most Americans, plumber Joe Wurzelbacher of Holland, Ohio, would not be hurt by Barack Obama's plans to raise taxes on people making more than $250,000. Wurzelbacher, nonetheless, remains concerned that the Democrat's plan would make it more difficult for him to buy the business where he...
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