I don’t want to traffic in unfair and nasty character assassinations, but I think the time has come to seriously ask the question: has John McCain started going senile?
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McCainorama
Ellen Datlow offers the following challenge:
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.
That’s one way of putting it
The AV Club on new fall movies:
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.
Off the fringe
If you’re wondering — heaven knows I’ve talked about it enough — yes, I’ve already given up on Fringe. I didn’t even watch tonight’s episode. I may check it out again when it (inevitably) ends up on DVD, but I have better things to do with my time week to week. There were a few things I liked about the show, but as a whole it frankly bored me.
Traveling, rhetorically
Why does England have to be so far away (to necessitate half-day or longer flights)? And why doesn’t the company have a travel agency who can take care of these arrangements for me?
At least I won’t have to pay for all of this.