http://www.struat.com/election Political discourse. Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:52:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It must be a very surreal experience to be in the path of Hurricane Dali.  Melted clocks as far as the eye can see. http://www.struat.com/election/2008/07/22/hurricane-destruction/ "Progressive" talk radio feeds its own feedback loop.  Take the voices you hear about the book "The Prosecution of George W Bush for Murder" by Vincent Bugolosi..   This was one maddening nit-wittery of wit-nittering.  So your host for the "KPOJ Morning Show", whatshisname, had the topic of "What should Bush's ... http://www.struat.com/election/2008/07/22/vincent-bugolosis-gdmned-book/ Reportedly Obama is kicking around two names for his vice-presidential pick right about now.  One is Evan Bayh.  The other is Sam Nunn. These two names spark some more names he might want to consider. #1:  Zell Miller.  Hey!  Paul Begala recommened Al Gore pick him in 2000. #2:  Toby Keith.  A registered ... http://www.struat.com/election/2008/07/22/while-obama-sorts-through-his-vice-presidential-list/ So on a radio top of the hour news-cast, I hear: "The Batman Sequel" (don't know if you can call this a "sequal" anymore than you could call the 1989 movie a "sequal" to the 1960s campy Batman movie... or, for that matter, that one a sequel to the 1940s one) ... http://www.struat.com/election/2008/07/20/batman-2/ George Will threw out a snotty easily skipped over throw away line in a column a few weeks ago, one of those items which is of a type that I think I just may be the only person alive to stop and desire to pick a fight over.  He claimed ... http://www.struat.com/election/2008/07/20/thoughts-induced-by-a-handful-of-words-from-a-george-will-column/ ... a general time horizon for meeting aspirational goals... From wikipedia: In general relativity, an event horizon is a boundary in spacetime, an area surrounding a black hole or a wormhole, inside which events cannot affect an outside observer. Light emitted from inside the horizon can never reach the observer, and anything ... http://www.struat.com/election/2008/07/19/when-you-convolute-language-youre-trying-to-not-say-anything/ In honor of the movie release of the Dark Knight, I recommend this issue of this comic book: The problem, I suppose, is that the cover gives away the ending.  Kind of.  But then again the cover shows it is a pretty goofy little story, so who cares?. http://www.struat.com/election/2008/07/18/batman/ This is a pretty impressive bit of propaganda.  I'm particularly struck by how often the ... um... Tour bus?... with Larouche's portrait is shown.  Actually this item is right up there with the one that juxtaposes the photograph of Amelia Robinson standing next to Martin Luther King Jr with the ... http://www.struat.com/election/2008/07/18/back-to-the-fringes-and-in-the-end-relatively-apolitical/ I guess it's Revitalization.  That convenience store -- Peterson's on 5th (as opposed to the other Peterson's at the other end of 5th) -- has been unceremoniously kicked out by the city.  The reason, it appears, is that some fancy smancy department store is opening up across the street in ... http://www.struat.com/election/2008/07/17/renew-this-urban-and-urban-this-renewal/ Did you know that you can create your very own page from the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee to SHOW THE WORLD which Republican Senatorial candidates you have donated to and how much money you have sent their way?  Check it out HERE!! The only problem is that they don't feature the ... http://www.struat.com/election/2008/07/16/bob-kelleher-continued/