This is perfect Friday fodder, Noam. Except I was gonna try to get caught up before my weekly 1:1 with my boss in three hours, so since I'll be reading the Onion instead I'll have to bullshit my way through the meeting (again).

Meanwhile, what's with getting a hooker for a Jackson? Are they serious? I mean, Ray Charles was singing about girls and Jacksons half a century ago.

I'm on the wrong coast.

You'd better believe we're still joking about that story up on Beacon Hill. We've created the phrase, "to pull a Marzilli."

On the other hand, I really do feel guilty joking about it. As I correctly assumed, he's, er . . . non compos mentis. He checked into a psychiatric facility this morning. I haven't checked if his office door is open today.

"what's with getting a hooker for a Jackson? Are they serious? I mean, Ray Charles was singing about girls and Jacksons half a century ago."

Clearly, you've never been to Merrimack St in Lowell.  

There's a lot to like about (groping random women while dressed like a hobo in) Lowell.  

I'm with williamyard - the article is almost as hilarious as the lingo.  Do people talk that way in Boston?  Hella weird.

His favorite president?  Groper Cleveland.

His favorite Shakespeare character?  O-Feel-Ya.

This is fun.

Now now, Noam.  Everyone knows that the best Onion editorial is "Hey, You Got Something To Eat?" by A Goat.  Find out more here:  www.theonion.com/.../40091

And if it's not that, it's "Hey, Everybody, Let's Put On An Avant Garde Show!":  www.theonion.com/.../33238

I'm trying to grasp the point of this post, but I can't put my finger on it. There's a larger issue beneath the surface here, but the comments so far are just skirting it. Clearly you people are out of touch with the underlying dynamic. I wash my hands of the whole thing.

Oh, and I'm offended by the gratuitous conflation of hobos with groping, other than for boxcar doors in the middle of the night. Really, officer, when I said she was built like a train I meant it!

kerouac9,

As a goat herder, I fully endorse your choice of editorial.

"A dialogue-free version of Uncle Tom's Cabin in which all the players lie onstage tightly swaddled in gauze?" lol kerouac9

todays video isn't too shabby tho: www.theonion.com/.../new_wearable_feedbags_let

the anti goat lobby responded to the editorial with this video: www.keepbusy.net/play.php

literate, very touching post. Gripping, really. But somehow, not as penetrating an analysis as I'd like.

Slow news day, huh? Though it shouldn't be, what with oil spiking upwards of $10 a barrel and the DOW down 316 points, the last time I checked on these two indices.

As long as we're digressing this (slow news) afternoon, I'll add to the bizarre Jim Marzilli

I don't know epic.  I thought hobo's analysis was forcible finger-bangingly great.

What?  We were trying to be subtle?  Oh.

We don't expect subtlety from someone whose handle includes the words bone and ill.

LR,

It's been an unwritten tradition at TNR for the bloggers to throw some goofy bones out there on Fridays, just to get the crowd worked up. You come to expect, and even look forward, to it.

I didn't know "finger-banging" came in adverb form. I am humbled.

Boneill is certainly a cunning linguist. (yeah, too easy)

adaglas,

I doubt Groper Cleveland is his favorite President. James K. Poke, perhaps. Or Franklin Pierced. Or Pervert Hoover. Or Warren G. Hardon.

Don't get me started on the Bushes.

"Warren G Hardon" just mad me giggle like an idiot.  

And epic, you can adverb anything, just like you can verb adverb.  

"His favorite Charles Dickens novel? David Cop-a-feel"

This is fricking childish, Noam. I think I heard that joke when I was in High School, when Dickens was still part of the curriculum.  This is probably where Howie Carr got him from also. Howie is not an infant terrible he is just an infant

One would think that the end of the Democratic primary has left you guys with nothing to do and nothing to think.

You can always go back to Hillary bashing.