Life imitating my art.

My humor, both in writing and on stage has become sort of Carlin-esque, at least in its old age bitterness. As I said on stage Saturday at Gotham, technology has made everything faster, including the rate at which I become an angry old man.

From inane Facebook updates to young, unemployed people with blackberries and multiple cell phones I think the era of American dominance is fading by way of cultural, intellectual and spiritual suicide. And considering that Heath Ledger will not be in Batman 3, literal suicide as well (at least I think it was suicide).

One of my recent harangues was my disappointment that Obama needed gimmicks to defeat a candidate that he should have been able to beat solely on issues and the direction the country has gone under Republican leadership. But it was t-shirts and text messages and e-mails that helped secure the youth vote.

But now in Georgia, the run off election for the Senate seat between Jim Martin and Saxby Chambliss has produced some major figures on both sides. Sarah Palin is out campaigning for Chambliss, while the political heavyweights Ludacris, T.I. and Young Jeezy are campaigning for Jim Martin.

I made a joke on my CD about Republicans comparing the experience of Palin to Obama and I said that Dennis Rodman was more the black man equivalent to Sarah Plain, rather than Obama. But now, in an effort to mobilize the vote, we get to see Ludacris, TI and Young Jeezy at the podium. The man who proclaimed to have hos in different area codes (a fantastic rap song, but terrible campaign slogan) is now influencing, or attempting to influence the outcome of a seat in the United States Senate. Does anyone see where this is headed? The sad thing is that a man like Al Gore would not probably motivate the voters of Georgia the way the Three Hosketeers can. I have nothing against rap or acting or any form of entertainment, and I don’t even mind them performing to rally a crowd or adding some star power to an event. But when one party is calling on their VP nominee to speak (no matter how dim a bulb) and the other party has abandoned more substantive figures for mere celebrity figures to rally the masses, then we are just trading pandering to fear for pandering to fiction.