Nothing more American than Superheroes

So I was talking with maelithil on this fine Independence Day morning, and she said, back pre-Crisis, not only was Barbara Gordon a Congresswoman, but Dick Grayson was in politics, too.

This is a new and exciting kink I did not know I had.

Mael says, and I concur, that if the evil villains ever wise up and manage to seriously cripple Dick, he needs to go into politics in present continuity.

He should run against Lex Luthor for the Presidency (Lex was President in DC continuity for a while, though I have no idea how long it was in their-years) -- not that Dick's old enough, or anything, but I'd like a president who never misses a charisma roll, but also has the world's best librarian and the world's weirdest billionaire keeping him on the straight and narrow, for special definitions of "straight."

Meditations on the phrase "grow the economy"

After brown_betty said that she despised the phrase "grow the economy," I IMed her and the following ensued:

Petra: I'll grow *your* economy, baby.

Betty: I'll grow your *mama's* economy.

Petra: Your mama's economy so grown, it don't even need no Miracle-Gro.

Betty: Your mama's economy so grown, they put her on the G8 1/2 for plus-sized ladies.

Petra: Your mama's economy so grown, she got a *six* year plan.

Betty: Your mama's economy so grown, her balance of trade broke the scale.
Betty: This is what you get for me having had a crush on my economics prof.

Petra: Your mama's economy so grown, she call the IMF her piggybank.

Betty: Your mama's economy so grown, her currency inflated and she didn't even notice!

Petra: Your mama's economy so grown, she have trickle-down economics like Niagara Falls!

Petra: Your mama's economy so grown, when she stubs her toe, Alan Greenspan says, "Ow!"

Betty: Your mama's economy so grown, satellite economies orbit her.

Betty: Your mama's economy so grown, *Wal-Mart* shops at *her.*

Betty: Your mama's economy so grown, when she roll over it's Black Monday!

Petra: Your mama's economy so grown, when she sneeze Wall Street shakes.

Betty: Your mama's economy so grown, her left arm has Most Favoured Nation status.

Betty: Your mama's economy so grown, when she take an elevator the dollar drops.

Petra: Your mama's economy so grown, when she say it look like rain, stockbrokers jump out the window.

Petra: Your mama's economy so grown, she gonna be signin' the YMAFTA.

Betty: Your mama's economy so grown, when she's depressed, employment drops.

Petra: Your mama's economy so grown, when she give your daddy Rogaine, ain't no more recession!

Betty: Your mama's economy so grown, when foreign direct investment increased, she thought she was having twins.

Petra: Your mama's economy so grown, when she went on Atkins, Cuba went broke.

Betty: Your mama's economy so grown, when the dot-com bubble burst, she switched to Doublemint.

Petra: Your mama's economy so grown, she call foreplay "pump-priming."

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Anyone else? Anyone care to correct our African American Vernacular English use, as I do not have a lexicon to hand?