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Palin is terrifying
Two and half minutes with Charlie Gibson and some relatively easy questions. Her ignorance here is amazing, so I'd imagine the full interview is a hoot. If you can vote for her after this, your voting criteria can't possible include competence.
Polling, debates, and stakes
Assuming we can believe the polling, if the general election were held today Barak Obama would win the electoral vote by roughly 275 to 262 (with 270 being necessary to win). It is very difficult for me to believe that such a high percentage of Americans would vote for a McCain-Palin ticket, but that's in large measure because I sit out here on the West...
Palin links of the day
Not a fiscal conservative. A crappy mayor. A biblical fundamentalist. She scores the trifecta.
Wheels are coming off the tricycle
The McCain campaign scales back media access and refuses to make Sarah Palin available for interviews. Does not seem to me to be a winning strategy. Still, at least one foreign online journal is reporting that the adultery scandal involving Todd Palin isn't about Todd at all but about Sarah. If true, that could prove a political show-stopper (though it...
A retreating pitbull…with lipstick
Sarah Palin's husband may have a "John Edwards" problem. Not disqualifying for her in a political sense, but adds another argument to the "she never should have been selected for veep" stack. Will the truth come out? The National Enquirer is on the job, so I'd guess yes. Meanwhile the Anchorage Daily News, apparently not dissuaded from practice of...
Conservativism
It's not what it should be (obviously), but Andrew Sullivan strikes an optimistic note about its long-term revival: I'm sure conservatism will one day recover - because it is right about the main issues: government needs to be kept in its place, taxes should be low and budgets balanced, individuals should be able to pursue their dreams as free of...
Palin’s religious beliefs
The Assemblies of God, of which Palin is a member, have 16 Fundamental Truths. If biblical literalism and fundamentalist Christianity is your thing, here's your girl. Personally, I find it immediately disqualifying. One hates to say "never," but if you look at what the right-wing Christianists have done to this country, I don't know why anyone would vote...
Troopergate, part 2.
Uh oh. Troopergate, part 2. The exciting part? The complaint alleges that the governor or her staff may have have improperly disclosed information from Wooten's personnel records. The complaint alleges "criminal penalties may apply."
That commander-in-chief experience
For Palin, not so much. But, hey, it's the Pavlov Party, and it's about sounding good, not getting things right.
Jon Stewart on Palin
There's reality, and then there's the GOP.
Essays
Claris Organizer 2.0: Forget Everything You Know
I can't remember when I was so excited about a software product, and from now on I won't have to. Contacts, tasks, appointments—soon I'll be able to forget my own birthday because Organizer will handle all the memory chores. It even integrates well with those of you from the old school of pencil and paper. Automated features up the yang, which is not nearly as bad a thing as it sounds. Beats a stick in the eye. Forget everything you know about Day-Runners, Day-Timers,...
Human Cloning: Too Much of a Good Thing
Great news for the Lone Star State: Scientists find a way to clone sheep. Now every Billy-Bob Yahoo can have a date for Saturday night. If he's lucky. And the sheep is drunk. Mama, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys. Now that scientists have discovered a process for cloning mammals, I think we all need to sit back with a cup of Joe and reflect on just how terrific it would be to have an exact genetic copy of a guy like me roaming the world. That's right. It...
Apple Macintosh: A New Hope
Apple cuts employees and loses millions, but the future's never looked brighter. Why it's time to ditch the Intel/Microsoft platform. Proof that Codeine dependency is an ugly thing. Updated for '98. The Rebirth of the Macintosh Doomsayers and Windows users not withstanding, the Macintosh computer platform and perhaps even Apple Computer, Inc. are on the verge of entering a renaissance period the likes of which hasn't been since, well, the renaissance. I'm positive that this...
Things That Go Bang
Published months ahead of schedule, an exploratory essay on America and the Fourth of July. Continuing my self-appointed role as Job's comforter, I gently probe the nation's tender psyche with my ice-pick-like wit. Trotsky-esque. Every Fourth of July I wonder just how many people have lit firecrackers and blown their fingers off in the name of freedom. Individual pyrotechnics are such a poor way to celebrate the freedoms we're supposed to cherish as Americans, especially...