Seven o’clock is a tough TV hour for me these days. I’m working 12-hour days at my pre-publishing stardom gig, and it’s very taxing. I’m currently what’s called a “software test lead” and I have to configure Windows operating systems in ten different languages and then test software on each one of them. It’s called [...]
Entries from April 2008
April 29, 2008
Paulbearers
Being the presumptive nominee ain’t what it used to be, as John McCain found out this weekend when Nevada Republicans convened in Reno for the seemingly routine business of selecting the state’s GOP delegates. Mitt Romney won Nevada’s caucus and Ron Paul nudged McCain into 3rd placed by 200 votes. The Paulettes had a surprise [...]
April 28, 2008
Veepstake Monday: The Inside Line – 04.28.2008
Time to skip that house payment, kids–don’t worry, they’re too busy foreclosing on the real deadbeats to worry about an otherwise-upstanding citizen who misses one payment because it’s Veepstake Monday again. They’ll understand.
THE REPUBLICANS – JOHN MCCAIN
Mike Huckabee – Former Governor, Arkansas: Huck was back on a campaign trip with McCain this week after his [...]
April 27, 2008
Obubba
Alright, just for the record, I started today’s topic a full fifteen minutes before I saw Newsweek’s cover for this week on Meet The Press, after an issue I broached two weeks ago. I’d already saved the document, and besides, I’ve got a better headline.
Barack ran into a tribal buzzsaw three weeks ago when he [...]
April 26, 2008
Gravetard Shift
Many years ago in my first stab at bachelorhood and during my marriage when my wife worked late, I used to enjoy ABC’s World News Now. It was what an overnight shift should be: A bunch of people punchy from a screwed-up sleeping schedule getting away with almost whatever they want just because the boss [...]
April 25, 2008
McThuselah
I have a 78-year-old mother who is sharp as a tack, so I’m very sensitive to deploying ageism as a campaign tactic.
That said, my mother doesn’t forget what she said eight minutes ago and hasn’t recently engaged in physical battery on anyone. She really does stand on principle, and when she takes a position on [...]
April 24, 2008
Toothless People
This should square everything away. Thank heaven they’re stepping up at last.
The kids better straighten up and and quit the horseplay or Mom and Dad might come downstairs. That was the message from Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid this week with the superdelegate situation getting more and more precarious. They’re getting serious: They’re [...]
April 23, 2008
Meh-mentum or Barack In A Hard Place?
TUESDAY NIGHT: I’ve been sitting here for the last hour watching Hillary’s lead teeter between eight and ten percent wondering which headline to go with, and I’m still not sure.
There’s no real surprise, there’s no real change in her prospects, and there’s no getting rid of her now. She nailed just enough of a win [...]
April 22, 2008
Kvetch Him If You Can
With the polls in Pennsylvania set to open in just hours and Hillary in desperate need of a Harlem Globetrotters-sized win over Barack Obama, Team Clinton is saving their finest whine for election eve.
As usual it was Bill’s mouth that was doing the most work. His first complaint was the superdelegate system. The former President [...]
April 21, 2008
McCainine Distemper
I don’t think there’s any question who has the strongest toughness bonafides going into this election. Never mind his five years in the chicken cage in Hanoi. He called his wife a “cunt”* and lived for someone else to tell about it. In the old days, that was at best a husband wearing the pants [...]
