So this woman...

... carved a "B" on her face backward? Exactly how dumb do you have to freaking be to support McCain?

How about just doing an "O", lady?

Critical breaking news

Fourteen years in, Axl Rose is finally releasing his goddamned album.

And you know, the leaked tracks are actually very strong, particularly "Better".

But hey, if this world's worth anything at all then one should at least be able to expect that an album whose production required, at one point, the construction of an in-studio chicken coop for the containment of its lead guitarist - I mean, one's gotta be able to assume that album can't be bad, right? People who know me know I'm not known for believing in things: but I believe in that.

November 23.

Socialism

Which would you consider socialism?

(a) Allowing the expiration of the parts of the Bush tax cuts most dramatically geared toward the richest people in America.

or

(b) Raising taxes on private oil companies for the express purpose of redistributing the money to the citizens of your state. (Alaska, that is.)

If McCain weren't going to lose, this kind of crap would actually be making me angry.

John Cleese

I've been a hapless Monty Python nerd since age 10. But my appreciation has just doubled:

John Cleese (part 2): Obama, Biden & Fox News

Third Debate

We're just past the halfway mark now. My impression is:

On the one hand, McCain appears persistently mendacious. On the other hand, he does come off as quite bitter.

Obama? Stumbling now and then as he tries to shore up his position, but not enough to hurt him in any way.

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What the hell is with the facial expressions?

Well, they're certainly something Saturday Night Live can work with tomorrow night.

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What strikes me most is the change in McCain since debate #1. The first time it was all, "This mental weakling over here is utterly wet behind the ears and has no idea what he's doing." Tonight it was far more fear-and-loathing, far more, "This bad man is going to ruin the life of Joe the Plumber."

Grit teeth and flop sweat and weird facial expressions.

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Early in the debate, McCain said, "I'm not George Bush. If you wanted to run against Bush, you should have run four years ago."

An hour later, he said the last president who tried to bar trade and raise taxes at the same time was Herbert Hoover. And so Obama should have said, "If you wanted to run against Hoover, you should have run in 1932. I assume you met the age requirement at the time."

Such a zinger. Really very funny, isn't that? Ha ha. Ha. Ha.

Yeah, I'm going to go work on something else now.

The upside of Sarah Palin

is that she's certain to boost the ratings of 30 Rock this season.

Outside of The McLaughlin Group, it's the only program on television worth watching.

Bye-bye!

town hall

So I listened to the debate last night over the radio rather than watch it. Interesting difference, because to my mind the result of the whole thing was pretty much a-pox-on-both-their-houses. Open up the papers this morning, though, and everybody's calling it for Obama. Very like Kennedy/Nixon in 1960.