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Despite the tough talk on the deficit, pro-amendment hawks like Pual Simon--the same bow-tied Potato-Head who thinks that our crime problem can be solved by 24-hour broadcasts of the "Reading Rainbow" on every channeling Rainbow" on every channel--have left themselves a generous escape clause. Though spouting stentorian anti-deficit rhetoric, the pro-amendment forces astutely realize that sometimes deficit spending is necessary and thus have stipulated that Congress could violate its new iron-clad rule by a three-fifths majority. Like the Gramm-Rudman bill that came before it, the Balanced Budget Amendment...
There are exceptions: one story (That Old Picayune-Moon) is very funny, a fabulous, ranting, nine page put-down which takes the form of a Letter to the Editor, full of zinging male bluster: "And then along came that greasy, flabby small-minded, mealy-mouthed, pasty-faced, and potato-headed daily fishwrap and dog's biffy, The Picayune-Moon, edited by that dildo Hector Timmy. (You.)" This story works because it remains within the realm of possibility, where Keillor's penchant for hyperbole and his expansive, ingenious vocabulary stretch the ordinary into the hilarious...
...Political Hot Potato...
...pixilated eye-poppers, offers options galore in his CD-ROM Xplora 1: Peter Gabriel's Secret World. First you put the singer's face together, which means choosing from a screenful of different mouths, noses, eyes and ears. "You'll know when you've got it," says Mr. Computer Potato Head while you give him a facial. This achieved, you must decide what to do next: Watch one of his music videos? Thumb through his old baby pictures? Choose various cuts by musicians from around the world and mix them together into your own jam session? Or "go backstage"; that...
...example, CPK serves such delicacies as Peking Duck Pizza and Rosemary Chicken Potato Pizza...