Lanny Davis Is An Emu

I'm really sorry. This post has nothing to do with its title. The fact is that my hit counts are little off at the moment, and I''m just making kind of a naked grab for any possible source of site traffic. Mr. Davis is clearly not an emu. This is what an emu looks like. This is Mr. Davis.  So that's settled.

Actually, I wanted to mention that last night Mortimer and Bill Curry and I went to see "Who Killed The Electric Car?" on its last night at Trinity. This is a documentary about the emergence, circa 1996, of fully electric cars in California, many of them made by GM. Their owners loved them, but GM mysteriously pulled them off the market and crushed them. I wouldn't have gone to se this movie if I were not on a quixotic quest to expand the horizons of my son Mortimer. But it's really interesting, entertaining and motivating. I would certainly recommend renting the DVD when it's out. It absolutely makes you want to join the movement and, eventually, drive something less petroleum-dependent.

An amusing note. The EV's were heavily marketed to celebrities, and one who leased was, alas, Mel Gibson, who is interviewed in the movie during his really crazy tribute-to-Saddam beard phase. And you just know who Mel thinks killed the electric car, right? I assume all kinds of screaming about Jews wound up on the cutting room floor.

After the movie, Mr. Curry favored us with a terse 2 hours and 45 minutes address on America's energy future.

Comments

[KMM]

You and Curry are the Oprah and Gayle of wonky white guys.
Not that there is anything wrong with that.

[Pinko Punko]

I was reading about your dust-up with Prince Emu the other day, and I thought to myself, shaking my head, "when emus attack." So sad. At least no one was hideously mauled. Hopefully he called in, right? Emus tend to uncontrollably poop when they get crazy like that. Silly emu!

[Jude]

Uhm, from experience, embedding the words HOT BASIL WEST HARTFORD in your blog will get you some hits.

Amusingly, they also have Curry.

Yanno, in some wonk cultures, talking about energy policy qualifies as foreplay. Does that make you a petrosexual?

[joejoejoe]

Bill Curry said something great in one of his '02 concession speech to John Rowland but I've never been able to find anything like a transcript online. Something about "you are not required to finish this task but neither can you lay it down" or something like that. I believe it was from the Talmud. It sounded great at the time. It would have sounded better coming out of Joe Lieberman a few weeks ago. Can you find the mention from Curry's concession speech and share it on your blog?

You also may want to do your bro Curry a solid and write a Wikipedia entry for him. As it stands the only Bill Curry listed is a losing SEC football coach and former Green Bay Packer under Vince Lombardi (not literally). There's a hot link from Rowland's bio to a 'Bill Curry (politician)' but it goes to any empty page.

The only bio I could find for Curry online was from The Political Graveyard.

"Curry, William E., Jr. — of Connecticut. Connecticut state comptroller, 1991-95. Still living as of 1995." Was Curry lively at the movie?

http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/curry.html

[RoseZ]

I finally had some time to listen to your interview with Sir Lanny. What a jerk! And I was glad that I listened AFTER reading the GQ article and listened to your interview with Cain (I think that's his name).

It put the Davis interview into perspective (not that I wouldn't have it to begin with). Unbelieveable. Talk about the Liebercamp playing "Gotcha" politics. It makes me sick.

But good for Lamont because the Lieberman campaign is a great model for political self-destruction. Keep it up, Joe & Co.

[Duh]

Hey, Colin... where do you expect the electricity to come from? (Please say, "more nuclear power plants.") Thanks.

[m ps]

It is clear, upon following your links, that Lanny Davis is, indeed, an emu. Emus everywhere will probably take offense, however, at being link-identified as Lanny Davis. I should consult an attorney, if I were you. One with a vast experience of emus. In an aside, I've really enjoyed your show lately, via podcast.

[Allen Marko]

When your time on this earth is up you'll be going straight to heaven because after 2+ hours listening to Curry, you've done your time in hell. (snark, snark)

[Jim]

Will we all be blessed with the written version of Mr. Curry's energy policy musings in this Sunday's Courant? Can't wait.

[MurphyBrown]

Emus everywhere will be after you.