Ambassadors

There’s always so much debate whenever President Bush appoints a judge or ambassador. Every pick is contraversial for one reason or another. Maybe the supported a federal abortion ban back in college, maybe they have wild and uncontrollable flatulance, who knows. The point is we’ve seen partisan politics bring our government to a grinding halt.

As is always the case, the Japanese have solved another one of our problems. 

Earlier this week, the Japanese appointed a popular animated cat, Doraemon, to an official ambassador position. The cat, who comes from the 22nd century, is blue and has no ears, is a cornerstone of Japan’s whole pop culture motif. It’s sort of an Eastern Ecclectic mixed with crippling psychosis. But hey, whatever makes you happy. 

It should be stated that the position this adorable little abomination against God is the one of the newly founded “Anime Ambassador”. Japan has spent the last few years redefining their cultural reputation from the home of disturbing, disturbing pornography to the home of kid-friendly (albeit mindless) cartoons. Am I the only one who thinks that a country that is known for both should probably sell neither? 

But I’ve gone way off-course. I don’t think Ambassador Doraemon will do such a bad job. In fact, I’ve often remarked that the Deptartment of Homeland Defense would do a better job finding terrorists if its director was replaced with a bunch of cartoon kids who drive around in a van solving mysteries with their talking dog. There wasn’t anything that gang couldn’t do. And I bet Osama Bin Laden was probably just trying to scare people away from the Pentagon so he could collect the pirate treasure buried beneath it.

P.S.: Grape Ape ‘08!