Halliburton Ernie Syndrome
Any of these sound familiar?
"Bush lied!"
"Bush was AWOL!"
"No blood for oil!"
"Bush is Hitler!"
"Iraq is a quagmire!"
These are just a few of the examples of the latest disease to spread across the nation: "Halliburton Ernie Syndrome". The primary symptom is the inability to refrain from repeating the same tired, boring drivel with hope, that over the passage of time, it will become fact.
Scientists named this affliction after the episode of Sesame Street where Bert returns to the apartment to find that Ernie has eaten one of his cookies. He tells Ernie he distinctly remembers having five cookies on his plate before he left, and when he came back, there were only four. Ernie then spends the next few minutes repeatedly re-arranging the cookies on the plate in varying configurations, and re-counting them trying to come up with five.
Sadly, there is no known cure for H.E.S. It has been shown in clinical trials that putting down the Michael Moore books and abstaining from watching the Today Show can result in a lessening of the symptoms, but no conclusions as to the effectiveness of this study have been made.
"Bush lied!"
"Bush was AWOL!"
"No blood for oil!"
"Bush is Hitler!"
"Iraq is a quagmire!"
These are just a few of the examples of the latest disease to spread across the nation: "Halliburton Ernie Syndrome". The primary symptom is the inability to refrain from repeating the same tired, boring drivel with hope, that over the passage of time, it will become fact.
Scientists named this affliction after the episode of Sesame Street where Bert returns to the apartment to find that Ernie has eaten one of his cookies. He tells Ernie he distinctly remembers having five cookies on his plate before he left, and when he came back, there were only four. Ernie then spends the next few minutes repeatedly re-arranging the cookies on the plate in varying configurations, and re-counting them trying to come up with five.
Sadly, there is no known cure for H.E.S. It has been shown in clinical trials that putting down the Michael Moore books and abstaining from watching the Today Show can result in a lessening of the symptoms, but no conclusions as to the effectiveness of this study have been made.
