Day: September 24, 2008

Tell me something about John McCain and/or Sarah Palin that will make me think well of them as candidates.

The best I could come up with is that their tactics — and increasingly obvious ineptitude — will send more voters running in the opposite direction. Hey, that’s something, right?

Seriously, it seems like there’s not a single day that goes by that there’s another reason to vote against John McCain in the upcoming election. Even on the good days, when he doesn’t throw a hissy fit and threaten to not show up at a presidential debate. (Gerry Canavan has more links on that.)

The best I can say for the McCain/Palin ticket is that it continues to surprise me. Every time I think it can’t get any worse, or sink any lower, it does.

And could the sexed-up, fetishy early ads for Frank Miller’s film adaptation of Will Eisner’s groundbreaking comic The Spirit be any more, well, dispiriting? It might wind up being entertaining, but it still looks like it’s going to be much more Miller than Eisner, which is like saying there’s a new Peanuts movie that’s going to be more Quentin Tarantino than Charles Schulz.