Dance Monkey, Dance!

We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~Japanese Proverb

What's up with politicians and punditry showing up in very public places attempting to dance? It's not something I'm used to observing as a general rule. Hitler did a jig at the Arch du Triumph in a very famous newsreel in 1940. And there was...eh..uhm..Honestly, I can't think of any other historical instance of this phenomena.

Yet, looking back to Tucker Carlson's game attempt to win Dancing With The Stars by never raising from a chair, we've been victims of dreadful dancing by Karl Rove as MC Rove, and George Bush's insane gyrations while in Africa and on the front porch when endorsing an equally demented John McCain for president. But the topper is this week's mugging of Ellen Degeneras by the sweaty porcine Chris Matthews.

Granted, he was no doubt dead drunk from St. Patty's Day parties; still, he threw her down, grabbed her titties and everything after doing some weird Philly-shuffle onto the stage.

What's next? Paul Wolfowitz on Soul Train?

I see a trend, but I'm baffled as to what it means. Agnes de Mille used to say that "the truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie." One common thread here is that all these men are ballsy liars, persistent and serial in nature. They might be striving to express a deep regret for poisoning their mortal souls one black falsehood at a time? Nah.

I'm more convinced that since every one of these guys are intensely despised by untold numbers of people. They know deep down that they are hated. To dance is to be human. Perhaps they need to be forgiven?