Sarah Palin – Vicious, Ignorant Narcissist AND Mentally Ill

It’s one thing to find Sarah Palin’s elevation to vice presidential candidate offensive because she’s simply unqualified, intellectually vapid, linguistically challenged and staked out as bait rather than anything resembling a seriously vetted, sound nomination for the 2nd highest office in America.
It’s yet another to examine the mounting evidence and conclude (and this from a [...]

Erratic Old Coot

Noam Scheiber has a great piece in The New Republic on tonight’s debate.  He points out:
What McCain doesn’t realize is that his greatest enemy isn’t Obama, or even the collapsing economy. It’s the perception that he’s an erratic old coot. That creates a deadly Catch-22: The only way you erase a 6-point deficit is by doing something dramatic. [...]

Everybody Knows – Leonard Cohen Live

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That’s how it goes
Everybody knows

Kathleen Parker – One Rockin’ Right Winger

It’s refreshing to find someone on the right besides George Will that doesn’t make me instantly want to punch something every time they open their mouth.  Kathleen Parker appears to call it as she sees it and refuses to blindly and glibly cheer lead for what she views as a weak choice in Sarah Palin.  [...]

Wolfson Hits The Nail He Wasn’t Aiming For – TERROR

Howard Wolfson, Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, calls the election for Obama.  His reasoning is sound and all else being equal I agree with him.  BUT…and this is a big fucking but…he also said something in passing that I fear will turn out to be prescient.
Wolfson wrote (emphasis mine):
State polls are beginning to reflect this. If [...]