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Oddly enough, I am not referring to “pig gate,” that asinine flap (or is it a kerfuffle?) developing between the two battling political camps over Barack’s remark about the McCain program being “putting lipstick on a pig”… the Democrat apparently failing to recognize that Governor Sarah Palin using her stupidmean-spirited adorable joke noting that the difference between a soccersecurity hockey mom and a pitbull was lipstick imbued the Republican Party with an all-time trademark on the word lipstick and its use in any subsequent joke, which will instantly be called a sexist attack on that nice young perty Governor Palin...

On Saturday afternoon, I was driving down Atlantic Avenue, and turned onto Adams Street in downtown Brooklyn, intending to drive over the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan to pick up Mrs. TD. It became quite clear traffic wasn’t moving at all because Adams Street had been taped off by the police. I turned around and found an alternate route, grumbling about it. Today, to my horror, I learned why the street was blocked, and it had nothing to do with the tropical storm rolling on in. Instead, it concerned a special kind of tragedy: an 8-year old boy on a bicycle...

That S&G title sounds almost like a message right out of Thomas Frank’s What’s the Matter with Kansas?, or the usual conundrum of how the interests of the rich and powerful, as embodied by their temporal representative on Earth, the Republican Party, are sold to the working stiffs of America who, though not forming a majority of the electorate, form a sufficiently strong plurality to keep voting for a party that has the interests of the few at heart… Of course, it might also be a reminder to those wishing well to the Obama-Biden ticket to stop wasting time with...

Senator John McCain accepted the Republican party’s nomination this evening, delivering a speech almost entirely out of place among Republicans for its near total lack of pettiness and hate and its expressing actual humility, making all of us wonder, once again, which side might ultimately receive the inevitable “pay-back” that will be the defining sentiment of any potential John McCain Administration should such come to pass. Governor Palin’s speech last night, written as it was by Rove’s political team for any generic vice-presidential candidate, contained the usual red-meat falsehoods, hatred and incoherence we’ve come to expect from Republicans of the...

Another day, another Sarah Palin scandalette… today: Governor Palin attended a church service where David Brickner, the founder of “Jews for Jesus,” a group that Jews certainly regard as at a minimum crackpot (some believe it is a hate-group) was the guest speaker, and during his talk, he suggested that Israeli Jews were suffering from Palestinian terrorist attacks in punishment for their failure to accept Jesus as their savior. For those wondering, the time frame is around two weeks ago, during the period, one would think, that she was being vetted for consideration for the vice-presidential nomination. Most people won’t...

Another day, another Sarah Palin related scandal, today evidently the good old National Enquirer‘s reporting that Palin had an affair with her husband’s business partner. All of this is, of course, infinitely more important than, say, the break-off of the giant Markham ice shelf in Northern Canada (around the size of Manhattan)… probably as a result of human-caused climate change, which Sen. McCain used to believe in until he secured his party’s nomination. None of this, of course, is as important as Sarah P.’s (1) unwed teenage daughter, and (2) possible own affair. BTW, there is relevance to this in...

And so, I listen to Governor Sarah Palin’s speech, and try to live-blog this one, such as it is. We’re starting to hear about the family… Track, Bristol, Willow, Piper… Track on his way to Iraq, let’s not talk about the girls, and young Trig the baby boy. No, let’s not talk about the girls. No. Let’s not. Well, I guess there’s the bio-part. Soon, policy and attack, from the candidate for national office with the least quantitative experience in a serious position of any candidate for high national office that anyone I know can remember (Edwards and Dubya each...

Good old Rudy 91u1iani addresses the Fascist Party Republican Party convention tonight, on the attack, as I listen to him as I sort of live-blog it. The mantra, of course, is “Obama has never run anything.” Obama is, sayeth Rudy, “the least experienced candidate”… “never led anything, nada”. Naturally, the only way to overlook the fact that Sarah Palin has even less experience is to praise her experience as mayor of a town around 1/1000 the size of NYC (Rudy’s bailiwick). Anyway, poor Barack, it seems, never had the opportunity to order the police to brutalize citizens, or to try...

Again with the Simon & Garfunkel titles, TD, even if they are downright mean? This is especially so in the context of 17-year old Bristol Palin’s “decision” to bear the child (for which she is now 5-months pregnant)… a decision noted by Rob Farley of Lawyers, Guns & Money that her mother Sarah Palin and her running mate John McCain would prefer be made by the state, rather than by the Bristol Palins of our country. Coupled with the politically conveeeenient choice of Bush and Cheney (who McCain would already like to disown as it is) to skip out on...

And so as we ponder Sen. Obama’s choice of Senator Joseph Biden, and Sen. McCain’s choice of Governor Sarah Palin as their party’s prospective Vice-President, consider, from our friend Stephen Truitt, what you hear in this NPR audio segment on the first man known as “The Veep,” a term coined by then-eleven-year-old Steve in honor of his grandfather, Alben Barkley, thirty-fifth Vice President of the United States. Listen through without crying: I dare you.