The Body Politic
Clinton, Kate
During our long domestic and international nightmare, it is perhaps no mistake that millions of people have paid money to determine their personal “sleep number.” By inputting height,...
...The Retired Military General...
...Whenever I saw the ads for the show, I mistakenly dismissed them as movie promos for Matrix IV with a crouching Keanu Reeves, filleted and bug-eyed...
...We would select different personalities from the Bush era, determine their perfect sleep number, induce a state of even more suspended animation, and put them in dramatic poses...
...A surprising residual reverence for the body as Temple of the Holy Ghost keeps me away...
...But it could keep them all from starting their own consulting firms...
...Ken Lay could at last be a cooperative witness as Corporate CEO...
...It’s not clear if George has availed himself of the technology, but he has said, “I’m sleeping better than people would assume...
...The Anonymous Source...
...They’re generally money-makers, but W. can run it into the ground in a few years...
...Or the GWB Body Worlds show...
...Gunther Von Hagens, a German anatomist, invented the technique, put the show on the road, and put me off Rocky Road H?agen-Dazs for a while...
...We are all left behind...
...Full disclosure: I have not attended...
...The Hunter’s Friend with actual buckshot in his face...
...Southern Methodist University, whose motto is the unintentionally ironic “The Truth Shall Set You Free,” is the proposed and reluctant site of the Bush II Library: a half-stack of unreadable, blackened FOIA vetted documents, leather-bound copies of My Pet Goat, the French existentialists, and “some Shakespeares...
...The Devoted Personal Assistant/ Supreme Court Nominee...
...The Swimmer, the Archer, the Equestrian, and the Pregnant Woman and her eight-month fetus are some of the more popular displays...
...The stated purpose of Body Worlds is the “education of the layman about the human body leading to better health awareness...
...Thus the compare-and-contrast exhibit of the smoker’s and nonsmoker’s lung, the free-standing circulatory system...
...In the last two years, millions of people in the U.S...
...By inputting height, weight, mattress preference, and sleep pattern data, trained professionals have helped the sleeplessly addled to determine the key to a perfect night’s sleep...
...The Mother (at last Barbara would be silent...
...The Hunter...
...Some would call it passing out...
...The War Criminal/Adviser (with Henry Kissinger, we won’t have to do much...
...Perhaps more noteworthy than the upsurge of sleep numerology in these last years of the Bush Administration is the intriguing phenomenon of the traveling exhibit known as Body Worlds...
...The Political Director...
...have attended sold-out exhibitions of human bodies and body parts preserved and frozen in various poses through a process called plastination...
...If this gives you a creepy, quasinecrophiliac feeling, you don’t have to go to the show...
...Go Mustangs...
...We could authorize a road show to travel the U.S., and if we run out of sleepinates, dip into the reserve of actual dead people...
...Word has it that when he’s not deciding to surge, or bullying surge protectors in Congress, George W. Bush has been ruminating about his legacy...
...The money could more suitably be spent on the GWB Fitness Center...
...But we are kept from seeing unplastinated bodies of our dear soldiers returning from war zones...
Vol. 71 • March 2007 • No. 3
