When I started this blog, I had grand ambitions of posting a lengthy rant about Sarah Palin and why she and her nomination are pretty much sure signs of the apocalypse. I was derailed when McCain made his brainless, if gutsy decision to temporarily suspend his campaign, but I had every intention of getting back to Palin.
Today was going to be the day, it really was, but before I even got started, one enterprising reader sent me a link to a Salon article by Rebecca Traister that captures pretty much everything I was going to say. Traister even has an added advantage (two, if you count the fact that she's a better writer), that being that she is a woman, and thus when she calls McCain's selection of Palin as a running mate "craven, sexist, and disrespectful," it sounds appropriately enraged, whereas if I did it, I would just sound like a whiny ultra-sensitive guy who just wants girls to like him for sharing their womanly pain.
So please, read the article. It's right on the money in its accusation of both right- and left-wingers in politics and the press of coddling Sarah Palin. Worry not, loyal Fishbulb Fans (all two of you), the book isn't closed on Palin-bashing. I have plenty more to say on the subject, particularly with the Vice Presidential debate looming on the horizon, but for now, it will have to wait.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Friday, September 26, 2008
It's On
According to CNN, John McCain is going to participate in the debate tonight after all.
"But Fishbulb," I can hear you cry, "didn't he say that he would only participate in the debate if the Senate reached a deal on the bailout? And hasn't Senate, um, not reached a deal on the bailout?"
You're quite right. McCain's camp gave a statement saying that the Senator feels there has been enough progress made toward a resolution that they can finish it up without him. Oh good. Since we was oh so very vital to the process up to this point. Sure, he may have been virtually silent during the negotiations thus far, and even when specifically asked to comment on a new form of the bailout plan, he may have refused to take any stance whatsoever, but we all know it was John McCain who got the Senate to the lovingly bipartisan point they are at now, where he can feel comfortable ducking out for a quick debate.
Just like it was my angry rant from last night that got him to reconsider his position. Ah, there's no delusion like self-delusion!
Meanwhile, McCain's people have reassured the American people that, "The McCain campaign is resuming all activities." Good to know they're back at work after nearly twenty-four full hours of not having stopped in the first place. I know I feel better.
Be sure to watch the debate tonight. I hope that it will be an open, honest, unflinching presentation of our two candidates and the changes they plan on bringing to Washington, to the nation at large, and to the world as a whole. I also hope that Obama kicks some serious ass.
"But Fishbulb," I can hear you cry, "didn't he say that he would only participate in the debate if the Senate reached a deal on the bailout? And hasn't Senate, um, not reached a deal on the bailout?"
You're quite right. McCain's camp gave a statement saying that the Senator feels there has been enough progress made toward a resolution that they can finish it up without him. Oh good. Since we was oh so very vital to the process up to this point. Sure, he may have been virtually silent during the negotiations thus far, and even when specifically asked to comment on a new form of the bailout plan, he may have refused to take any stance whatsoever, but we all know it was John McCain who got the Senate to the lovingly bipartisan point they are at now, where he can feel comfortable ducking out for a quick debate.
Just like it was my angry rant from last night that got him to reconsider his position. Ah, there's no delusion like self-delusion!
Meanwhile, McCain's people have reassured the American people that, "The McCain campaign is resuming all activities." Good to know they're back at work after nearly twenty-four full hours of not having stopped in the first place. I know I feel better.
Be sure to watch the debate tonight. I hope that it will be an open, honest, unflinching presentation of our two candidates and the changes they plan on bringing to Washington, to the nation at large, and to the world as a whole. I also hope that Obama kicks some serious ass.
Louisiana State Representative Revealed to be Pure Evil
When I sat down to scope out the news this morning, I was really only looking for stories about the debate that is hopefully going to take place tonight, and about the fight in Congress over the $700 billion bailout proposal. By chance, I happened to notice something else entirely, something so preposterous that I think it bears mentioning instead of another angry rant about McCain.
This story broke on Tuesday, 9/23, but CNN just posted an excellent clip this morning (video). Kyra Phillips interviews Louisiana State Representative John LaBruzzo (R), whose office proposed legislation that would pay poor women $1000 to get their tubes tied. The idea, see, is that poor women make poor babies. That's basically all they do all day. It's not like they have jobs or anything. Ergo, if you give every poor woman a thousand dollars to get her tubes tied, not only are the women marginally less poor, but they'll stop spitting out young'ns like the genetic chain guns they are.
If you watch the whole video, you'll notice a few things. First, that Kyra Phillips has more balls than most of the mainstream press. She lets LaBruzzo ramble on for a while at the beginning, but then she puts him on the spot and doesn't let up. It's awesome. Second, for someone so concerned with children draining the state's economy through generational welfare, LaBruzzo doesn't seem particularly familiar with the facts. I really love the part where Phillips asks LaBruzzo what he makes of the fact that the poverty rate for adults with kids is actually significantly lower than the poverty rate for adults who are childless. (17% compared to 23% in the 2006-2007 census). He fobs it off, saying he's a State Representative, and not concerned with national statistics. Then she points out that these percentages are from Louisiana. That really gave me a warm feeling.
You might also notice that LaBruzzo never answers the first question in the clip, which was basically designed to give him an easy out. Phillips asks who else was involved in coming up with this monstrous idea. LaBruzzo has the opportunity to spread the blame around, to say, "It's not that I'm hugely evil, it's that a large number of people are each a little bit evil." To his credit, he doesn't. Alternately, he could have tried to pass the whole thing off as a joke that arose out of tiredness and frustration after a long brainstorming session. We've all been there. It's two in the morning, the coffee ran out six hours ago, everyone's exhausted, someone half-heartedly throws out the idea that they can solve this welfare thing by just purging the cancerous species known as the poor, everyone chuckles weakly, and that's when they decide to call it a night. Again, they'd all look a little evil, but it could be forgiven. LaBruzzo almost tries this tactic a couple times, by mentioning that they brainstormed many ideas, and this whole forced sterilization thing was just one of them. He blames the media for latching onto this one idea.
Well, yeah.
But LaBruzzo never truly passes the buck. He doesn't pin this on his staff, or on an advisor who has since been fired. He doesn't even try to blame it on some sort of magic spell cast by former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke, who once held LaBruzzo's seat in the Louisiana House of Representatives. That's what I would have done, but then, I've always had a penchant for working wizardry into my conversations with the press. No, instead of passing the blame, or indeed, answering the question, LaBruzzo goes on a two minute rant about how poor people are lazy.
Poor people, he says, relied on the government for help during the evacuations that occurred in response to the hurricanes that have ravaged that area. Yeah, stupid fucking poor people. You know, I generally like to think that I understand the Republicans' desire for a smaller government. I don't necessarily agree with it, but I understand it. But what I don't get is wanting a federal government that is so small and powerless that it isn't even responsible for helping its own citizens in the event of a horrific natural disaster. That's beyond me, but not as far beyond me as what LaBruzzo says next. I'll let him speak for himself.
"With the seven hundred billion dollar bailout, I think the taxpayers of America are kinda getting fed up and saying, 'Look, we need people to go to work and help pull the wagon instead of generation after generation jumping into the wagon.'"
Just as a reminder, that was in answer to the question, "Paying a woman a thousand dollars to tie her tubes - was this your idea, and who else was involved in this brainstorming session?"
Holy shit. Is "LaBruzzo" Italian for "Skeletor?" How do you even get that sort of thought process without being totally, 100% evil? Wall St. collapses due to greed and shoddy investment practices in the housing market, so taxpayers nationwide should be fed up with women living in poverty in Louisiana? And then the solution is to charge taxpayers more in order to pay every woman below the poverty line $1000 to get their tubes tied? Not to mention that tubes don't magically tie themselves. Not even a Grand Wizard has that kind of power, and they're grand. We'll need doctors to perform these procedures; doctors who could otherwise be using their time to help people with medical conditions that don't have anything to do with their bank accounts. God knows, if there's one thing the state of Louisiana needs, it's fewer doctors with time to devote to helping people who really need it.
Obviously, LaBruzzo's malevolent idea is never going to become actual legislation. He's never going to even draft it. That's not the issue, here. The issue is just how frighteningly out of touch Republican leaders seem to be from the people they supposedly represent (House of Representatives, get it?). Our housing market is in shambles, but John McCain can't even remember how many houses he owns. John LaBruzzo has no problem with charging taxpayers for a $700 billion bailout with no oversight designed to keep Wall Street CEOs from having to sell their private jets, but he proposed sterilizing the poor. And just the ladies. The dudes, after all, might actually make something of themselves one day. Maybe they'll marry a wealthy woman after impressing her with their awe-inspiring, government-approved fertility. And while LaBruzzo does admit that this is perhaps not the best solution to the problem, he is not ashamed of it, or embarrassed by it, or horrified that this idea that was only proposed as a sick joke to be kept amongst friends somehow got out to the press. No, he stands by it. He defends it, and says that it's still on the table. And yet, Democrats are the ones accused of being elitist.
This story broke on Tuesday, 9/23, but CNN just posted an excellent clip this morning (video). Kyra Phillips interviews Louisiana State Representative John LaBruzzo (R), whose office proposed legislation that would pay poor women $1000 to get their tubes tied. The idea, see, is that poor women make poor babies. That's basically all they do all day. It's not like they have jobs or anything. Ergo, if you give every poor woman a thousand dollars to get her tubes tied, not only are the women marginally less poor, but they'll stop spitting out young'ns like the genetic chain guns they are.
If you watch the whole video, you'll notice a few things. First, that Kyra Phillips has more balls than most of the mainstream press. She lets LaBruzzo ramble on for a while at the beginning, but then she puts him on the spot and doesn't let up. It's awesome. Second, for someone so concerned with children draining the state's economy through generational welfare, LaBruzzo doesn't seem particularly familiar with the facts. I really love the part where Phillips asks LaBruzzo what he makes of the fact that the poverty rate for adults with kids is actually significantly lower than the poverty rate for adults who are childless. (17% compared to 23% in the 2006-2007 census). He fobs it off, saying he's a State Representative, and not concerned with national statistics. Then she points out that these percentages are from Louisiana. That really gave me a warm feeling.
You might also notice that LaBruzzo never answers the first question in the clip, which was basically designed to give him an easy out. Phillips asks who else was involved in coming up with this monstrous idea. LaBruzzo has the opportunity to spread the blame around, to say, "It's not that I'm hugely evil, it's that a large number of people are each a little bit evil." To his credit, he doesn't. Alternately, he could have tried to pass the whole thing off as a joke that arose out of tiredness and frustration after a long brainstorming session. We've all been there. It's two in the morning, the coffee ran out six hours ago, everyone's exhausted, someone half-heartedly throws out the idea that they can solve this welfare thing by just purging the cancerous species known as the poor, everyone chuckles weakly, and that's when they decide to call it a night. Again, they'd all look a little evil, but it could be forgiven. LaBruzzo almost tries this tactic a couple times, by mentioning that they brainstormed many ideas, and this whole forced sterilization thing was just one of them. He blames the media for latching onto this one idea.
Well, yeah.
But LaBruzzo never truly passes the buck. He doesn't pin this on his staff, or on an advisor who has since been fired. He doesn't even try to blame it on some sort of magic spell cast by former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke, who once held LaBruzzo's seat in the Louisiana House of Representatives. That's what I would have done, but then, I've always had a penchant for working wizardry into my conversations with the press. No, instead of passing the blame, or indeed, answering the question, LaBruzzo goes on a two minute rant about how poor people are lazy.
Poor people, he says, relied on the government for help during the evacuations that occurred in response to the hurricanes that have ravaged that area. Yeah, stupid fucking poor people. You know, I generally like to think that I understand the Republicans' desire for a smaller government. I don't necessarily agree with it, but I understand it. But what I don't get is wanting a federal government that is so small and powerless that it isn't even responsible for helping its own citizens in the event of a horrific natural disaster. That's beyond me, but not as far beyond me as what LaBruzzo says next. I'll let him speak for himself.
"With the seven hundred billion dollar bailout, I think the taxpayers of America are kinda getting fed up and saying, 'Look, we need people to go to work and help pull the wagon instead of generation after generation jumping into the wagon.'"
Just as a reminder, that was in answer to the question, "Paying a woman a thousand dollars to tie her tubes - was this your idea, and who else was involved in this brainstorming session?"
Holy shit. Is "LaBruzzo" Italian for "Skeletor?" How do you even get that sort of thought process without being totally, 100% evil? Wall St. collapses due to greed and shoddy investment practices in the housing market, so taxpayers nationwide should be fed up with women living in poverty in Louisiana? And then the solution is to charge taxpayers more in order to pay every woman below the poverty line $1000 to get their tubes tied? Not to mention that tubes don't magically tie themselves. Not even a Grand Wizard has that kind of power, and they're grand. We'll need doctors to perform these procedures; doctors who could otherwise be using their time to help people with medical conditions that don't have anything to do with their bank accounts. God knows, if there's one thing the state of Louisiana needs, it's fewer doctors with time to devote to helping people who really need it.
Obviously, LaBruzzo's malevolent idea is never going to become actual legislation. He's never going to even draft it. That's not the issue, here. The issue is just how frighteningly out of touch Republican leaders seem to be from the people they supposedly represent (House of Representatives, get it?). Our housing market is in shambles, but John McCain can't even remember how many houses he owns. John LaBruzzo has no problem with charging taxpayers for a $700 billion bailout with no oversight designed to keep Wall Street CEOs from having to sell their private jets, but he proposed sterilizing the poor. And just the ladies. The dudes, after all, might actually make something of themselves one day. Maybe they'll marry a wealthy woman after impressing her with their awe-inspiring, government-approved fertility. And while LaBruzzo does admit that this is perhaps not the best solution to the problem, he is not ashamed of it, or embarrassed by it, or horrified that this idea that was only proposed as a sick joke to be kept amongst friends somehow got out to the press. No, he stands by it. He defends it, and says that it's still on the table. And yet, Democrats are the ones accused of being elitist.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
McCain Calls a Time Out
It's old news now that John McCain has "suspended" his campaign for the Presidency in order to focus on the economic crisis. He claims that he will not attend the scheduled debate on Friday (that's tomorrow, for those of you keeping track) unless Congress reaches a decision on the proposed $700 billion bailout plan that the Bush Administration has put forth in a desperate bid to keep Wall Street going. Similarly, it's also old news that this suspension, like the bailout, is total bullshit.
Let's ignore for the moment that the University of Mississippi, the scheduled host of the first debate between McCain and Obama, has already spent millions of dollars in preparations, because clearly the right move in an economic disaster is to force more people to waste more money. Let's also ignore the fact that the election is on November 4th, a puny forty days away, and the nation has yet to hear the candidates actually speak on the issues in a forum where the other viewpoint will also be represented. Who cares if the next leader of our nation can provide substantive answers to difficult questions, or if he can defend his policies intelligently in the face of criticism? Forget about it.
Instead, let's focus on McCain's claim that he's suspending his campaign. Maybe I'm taking things out of context. Why don't we go directly to his statement from yesterday:
"Tomorrow morning, I will suspend my campaign and return to Washington after speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative."
Okay, that's pretty unambiguous. Just one last little bit of campaigning because, hey, he's already there, and then he's putting this whole thing on ice. But what could he really mean by that? Do you think it means that all the hard working men and women at the McCain Campaign HQ filed out of their offices, leaving the last unpaid intern to shut off the lights and lock the doors? That anyone caught wearing a McCain/Palin button or waving a sign between now and the resolution of the proposed bailout would be risking the awesome wrath of the Original Maverick?
Of course not. He hasn't stopped campaigning for a second. We've seen this before. If I may crib from Al Franken's excellent book Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them (and I hope that I may, because I plan on doing it a lot), Republican then-candidate for Senate Norm Coleman pulled this exact tactic after a tragic plane crash killed his opponent, Paul Wellstone. Coleman said that he was suspending his campaign until after Wellstone's funeral. He then proceeded to appear on This Week and held a "non-press-conference press conference." In other words, he did exactly what a campaigning candidate would do, but by being sure to repeat that he was not campaigning, and by using clever turns of phrase (assuming you consider "non-press-conference press conference" clever), he was able to keep his campaign going. I mean, sure, he met with the press, and sure, he gave a statement, and sure, he took questions from reporters who, I'm told, are members of the press, but it wasn't a press conference. It may have looked like a press conference to the untrained eye; to a layperson who happened to be wandering by it might have been eerily reminiscent of a press conference, but it really wasn't. That would have been disrespectful.
John McCain is engaging in some Coleman-esque "non-campaigning campaigning." He's trying to take the high ground, to show that he's more interested in finding a solution that will help the American people, unlike his opponent, who is only interested in being on camera. McCain said, we have to "set politics aside, and I am commited to doing so." But make no mistake, this was a political move. That's why his very next sentence began with the words, "Following September 11th."
McCain had so much to gain by "suspending" his campaign and postponing the debate. If Obama refused to play along, then the Republicans could spin it as Obama caring more about winning a debate than about actually helping the American people. McCain, meanwhile, would look like the guy who cared so damn much about solving this financial crisis and helping average Americans like you and me that he'd give up his own Presidential campaign to do it. And this guy's wanted to be President for, like, eighty years! Can you imagine how much he must want to help America if he'd give that up to do it? What a maverick!
Of course, it doesn't hurt that postponing the debate would give McCain more time to prepare to face off against Obama, who is unquestionably the more natural and inspiring pubilc speaker of the two. Plus, if the Presidential debate was being delayed, it would only be sensible to push back the Vice Presidential debate as well, which would give Sarah Palin some much needed time to shape herself into a halfway competent political orator. God knows that after her disasterous interview with Katie Couric, her handlers are probably desperate for whatever extra time they can grab in order to force-feed her at least some basic factual knowledge of her own running mate, if not actual policy information.
And if Obama relented? If he said, "You know what, John, that's a great idea! Let's put this whole 'election' dealie on hold for a while" and agreed to postpone the debate? Well, then McCain's people might not be able to paint Obama as an elitist with no concern for the common people, but they'd still get that precious extra prep time, plus they could go to the press singing the praises of John McCain and how his take-charge style was so visionary that even Barack Obama fell in line. But of course, that wouldn't be campaigning.
So suspending the campaign was a pretty smart move for the McCain camp. No matter how Obama and his people responded, the Republicans could use it to their advantage. Right?
Obama's camp deserves massive, king-size kudos for responding the way they have. They didn't get flummoxed by this cheap move. They've stayed on message, and that message has been, "You know what, John, you're right. We do need to focus on the economy. So, since one of us is going to be inheriting this problem as President, considering that we both know that this bailout isn't going to miraculously cure all of the nation's economic problems, why don't we let the American people hear our plans?"
Obama has made it clear that he feels more than capable of doing his Congressional duty in the Senate and still making it to the debate on time. The rest of the Senate has backed him on this, even giving Obama and McCain the green light to skip the vote on the bailout in order to focus on the Presidential race. And Obama's camp has lovingly pointed out that the President often has to deal with multiple issues at once. Take a look at our current President. The economy, the environment, Iraq, Afghanistan - he has to botch them all at once!
Will we see a debate between Obama and McCain tomorrow night? We'll have to wait and see. But right now Obama needs to keep hammering at McCain with reminders that the President can't just call a time-out on every other issue in order to focus on one. Whoever wins this election will be taking the reins of our country at a pivotal and exceedingly difficult moment. We need someone who will be able to step in and tackle multiple issues both at home and abroad without slowing down, without giving up, and without having a heart attack. If Senator McCain doesn't participate in this debate, he will be telling the voters that he is simply not up to the task.
Let's ignore for the moment that the University of Mississippi, the scheduled host of the first debate between McCain and Obama, has already spent millions of dollars in preparations, because clearly the right move in an economic disaster is to force more people to waste more money. Let's also ignore the fact that the election is on November 4th, a puny forty days away, and the nation has yet to hear the candidates actually speak on the issues in a forum where the other viewpoint will also be represented. Who cares if the next leader of our nation can provide substantive answers to difficult questions, or if he can defend his policies intelligently in the face of criticism? Forget about it.
Instead, let's focus on McCain's claim that he's suspending his campaign. Maybe I'm taking things out of context. Why don't we go directly to his statement from yesterday:
"Tomorrow morning, I will suspend my campaign and return to Washington after speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative."
Okay, that's pretty unambiguous. Just one last little bit of campaigning because, hey, he's already there, and then he's putting this whole thing on ice. But what could he really mean by that? Do you think it means that all the hard working men and women at the McCain Campaign HQ filed out of their offices, leaving the last unpaid intern to shut off the lights and lock the doors? That anyone caught wearing a McCain/Palin button or waving a sign between now and the resolution of the proposed bailout would be risking the awesome wrath of the Original Maverick?
Of course not. He hasn't stopped campaigning for a second. We've seen this before. If I may crib from Al Franken's excellent book Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them (and I hope that I may, because I plan on doing it a lot), Republican then-candidate for Senate Norm Coleman pulled this exact tactic after a tragic plane crash killed his opponent, Paul Wellstone. Coleman said that he was suspending his campaign until after Wellstone's funeral. He then proceeded to appear on This Week and held a "non-press-conference press conference." In other words, he did exactly what a campaigning candidate would do, but by being sure to repeat that he was not campaigning, and by using clever turns of phrase (assuming you consider "non-press-conference press conference" clever), he was able to keep his campaign going. I mean, sure, he met with the press, and sure, he gave a statement, and sure, he took questions from reporters who, I'm told, are members of the press, but it wasn't a press conference. It may have looked like a press conference to the untrained eye; to a layperson who happened to be wandering by it might have been eerily reminiscent of a press conference, but it really wasn't. That would have been disrespectful.
John McCain is engaging in some Coleman-esque "non-campaigning campaigning." He's trying to take the high ground, to show that he's more interested in finding a solution that will help the American people, unlike his opponent, who is only interested in being on camera. McCain said, we have to "set politics aside, and I am commited to doing so." But make no mistake, this was a political move. That's why his very next sentence began with the words, "Following September 11th."
McCain had so much to gain by "suspending" his campaign and postponing the debate. If Obama refused to play along, then the Republicans could spin it as Obama caring more about winning a debate than about actually helping the American people. McCain, meanwhile, would look like the guy who cared so damn much about solving this financial crisis and helping average Americans like you and me that he'd give up his own Presidential campaign to do it. And this guy's wanted to be President for, like, eighty years! Can you imagine how much he must want to help America if he'd give that up to do it? What a maverick!
Of course, it doesn't hurt that postponing the debate would give McCain more time to prepare to face off against Obama, who is unquestionably the more natural and inspiring pubilc speaker of the two. Plus, if the Presidential debate was being delayed, it would only be sensible to push back the Vice Presidential debate as well, which would give Sarah Palin some much needed time to shape herself into a halfway competent political orator. God knows that after her disasterous interview with Katie Couric, her handlers are probably desperate for whatever extra time they can grab in order to force-feed her at least some basic factual knowledge of her own running mate, if not actual policy information.
And if Obama relented? If he said, "You know what, John, that's a great idea! Let's put this whole 'election' dealie on hold for a while" and agreed to postpone the debate? Well, then McCain's people might not be able to paint Obama as an elitist with no concern for the common people, but they'd still get that precious extra prep time, plus they could go to the press singing the praises of John McCain and how his take-charge style was so visionary that even Barack Obama fell in line. But of course, that wouldn't be campaigning.
So suspending the campaign was a pretty smart move for the McCain camp. No matter how Obama and his people responded, the Republicans could use it to their advantage. Right?
Obama's camp deserves massive, king-size kudos for responding the way they have. They didn't get flummoxed by this cheap move. They've stayed on message, and that message has been, "You know what, John, you're right. We do need to focus on the economy. So, since one of us is going to be inheriting this problem as President, considering that we both know that this bailout isn't going to miraculously cure all of the nation's economic problems, why don't we let the American people hear our plans?"
Obama has made it clear that he feels more than capable of doing his Congressional duty in the Senate and still making it to the debate on time. The rest of the Senate has backed him on this, even giving Obama and McCain the green light to skip the vote on the bailout in order to focus on the Presidential race. And Obama's camp has lovingly pointed out that the President often has to deal with multiple issues at once. Take a look at our current President. The economy, the environment, Iraq, Afghanistan - he has to botch them all at once!
Will we see a debate between Obama and McCain tomorrow night? We'll have to wait and see. But right now Obama needs to keep hammering at McCain with reminders that the President can't just call a time-out on every other issue in order to focus on one. Whoever wins this election will be taking the reins of our country at a pivotal and exceedingly difficult moment. We need someone who will be able to step in and tackle multiple issues both at home and abroad without slowing down, without giving up, and without having a heart attack. If Senator McCain doesn't participate in this debate, he will be telling the voters that he is simply not up to the task.
Monday, September 15, 2008
It begins...
So begins a new blog with the usual lofty goal: to provide answers to the great questions currently facing our society, and to do it with both wisdom and a tolerable level of snark. The smart money says that by the time the election rolls around, this blog will be mostly dedicated to rambling about my job, my relationship, my friends, the cute dog I saw walking down the street, etc. That, or abandoned entirely. Time will tell.
To keep me focused on my goal, I have titled this whole mess after a moment of stark, memorable clarity; a time when a seemingly impossible twist of fate gave rise to a seemingly unanswerable question, which in turn led to a simple, crystallizing solution. Naturally, this moment of perfect understanding came from The Simpsons.
So you see, it all makes sense in the end.
To keep me focused on my goal, I have titled this whole mess after a moment of stark, memorable clarity; a time when a seemingly impossible twist of fate gave rise to a seemingly unanswerable question, which in turn led to a simple, crystallizing solution. Naturally, this moment of perfect understanding came from The Simpsons.
So you see, it all makes sense in the end.
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