Entries from October 2008

31 October 2008

Halloween — Goldfarb, Asimov, Logick & Horror

They aren’t connected, you know, except that I have three observations of an electional nature, and those are them. Or, rather, them are these.

Or somesuch.
Happy Halloween! Three tales of misery and the magi nation.

30 October 2008

FLASH! Michael Goldfarb Found!

NOTE: there is a lot of material on Goldfarb, et al, on this blog, with all the links and references you could want. The easiest way to access the library is run a Google search, using these terms (cut and paste the text in RED): site:hisvorpal.wordpress.com “Michael Goldfarb”
(See yesterday’s post,”Gee. Where’s Michael Goldfarb?“)

Goldfarb located on [...]

29 October 2008

Gee. Where’s Michael Goldfarb?

NOTE: there is a lot of material on Goldfarb, et al, on this blog, with all the links and references you could want. The easiest way to access the library is run a Google search, using these terms (cut and paste the text in RED): site:hisvorpal.wordpress.com “Michael Goldfarb”

Kristol: Nicht!
i. prologue, incest among the NeoCons
I’ve told [...]

27 October 2008

Diva Id and Conk Her

The Swamp, the Chicago Tribune’s Washington bureau blog, reports:
A campaign official privately tells the paper: “She’s now positioning herself for her own future. Of course, this is bad for John. It looks like no one is in charge.”
ABC News, among others, notes that, in an interview with CNN, one McCain adviser anonymously called Palin “a [...]

26 October 2008

Bad Puns Palin Comparison

I can’t possibly keep up with all the weaselly smears that the GOPpers are throwing out this week. I’m certain they run the gamut from “Obama is a Space Alien!”  to “The Democrats will confiscate your children AND your money.” (And its corollary: “The Liberals want to have sex with your dog!” Don’t laugh, that’s [...]

25 October 2008

Attack of the B-Girls, or Emb-Racism

Thanks to Crooks and Liars for making this a featured post.

McCain in Virginia — Getty Images
It is not, one supposes, egotistical to note that the story I told you here last Monday (“Holy You Betcha, Batman! It’s the Barracuda!” 20 Oct 2008.) is now confirmed on Saturday, after having become the subject of speculation throughout the [...]

24 October 2008

So What’s a Girl Gotta Do to NOT be Credible?

There are two astonishing liars out there. One of them lasted for 24 hours. The other remains America’s Sweetheart™. And one wonders: what has happened to the old concept of “truthfulness.” (And of “Truth” itself among the self-proclaimed moral mavens of the bloviating class.)

“special” wardrobe needs
Greg Mitchell, editor of Editor & Publisher (the newspaper industry’s [...]

23 October 2008

Barbiegate™ Pushes GOP Collapse

It isn’t often that you see Pat Buchanan and Rush Limbaugh flailing wildly, flecks of foam forming around their political pottymouths. But in the last 24 hours, that’s exactly what I’ve witnessed.

The Party of Lincoln™ bears about as much resemblance TO Lincoln as a grubworm does to a supernova. It is all topsy-turvy: voter suppression, [...]

22 October 2008

Barbiegate™ Casts Pall Over Election

Whoever Paul is.
ruh-roh
It seems astonishing that, on the same day, both Alaskans in the news would use, essentially, the same rationalization.

21 October 2008

Crunch Time

There’s a lot of good news. And, we shouldn’t forget that voting is already underway. I’ve got my Oregon mail-in ballot, and will vote tonight.
What most impressed me was something I heard Cokie Roberts say on NPR yesterday: that the Obama campaign is the best-organized, most disciplined campaign she’s seen in her lifetime. And, she [...]

21 October 2008

If Candidates Were Phones (UPDATE)

Final pre-election update of my February 25 post, “If Candidates Were Telephones“:

Courage.