Open Inquery: Is this image real or photochopped?

VPOTUS, I think not!

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Open Intrigue

What is John McCain to do?

Either Mrs. "Not-So-Plain-And-Simple" Sarah Palin is the heretofore unheard of Golden Child or ... she will likely be the last nail in McCain's coffin. Certainly the Republican party faithful have reservations about the possibility of elevating her to POTUS. Most assuredly the everyperson Republican cannot be so blinded by Mrs. Palin's glossy verneer as to not recognize a true political liability.

What McPains me the most is that the Republican party moved from the realm of historical venerability to a sordid adult version of video game buffoonery. How could McCain's handlers allowed such a monumental gaff? Or is this the kind of direction Leadership we can expect from the Republicans if by some miraculous turn of fate they actually attain the Oval Office.

I know that the next time I am assailed by my Republican acquaintances imploring me to reconsider my Obama stance I will have to do nothing more than whisper the name of McCain's venerable VP choice - and try not to laugh out loud.

So, what's a McCain to do?

What if "Troopergate" is the icing on Sarah's going-away cake? From under which stone will McCain's handlers try to pull another rabbit? Or perhaps, just perhaps wiser Republican heads will prevail and Romney or Pawlenty might be willing to be reconsidered. (Once burned, twice shy?)

What's a McCain to do?

Time to put on your Happy Face, polish up your rhetoric, stand by your choice... and face the music.

Or, you could... try and McExplain her away like a previous marriage and try again.

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Open Assurance

I was asked, honestly, if I thought Jon Stewart or Robert Colbert were really Republicans?

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Open Assessment: "Its a pretty cool job..."

I am more frightened than I have ever been in my life, our country stands at the brink...

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Open Invite: For a good time call...

Anecdotal Evidence

A blog about the intersection of books and life.

Thursday, August 28, 2008

`Life is Not Like That'

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Elizabeth Bishop reports a similar honesty and taste in her friend Marianne Moore:

“Sometimes we went to movies together, to Kon-Tiki twice, I recall. I never attempted to lure her to any dramatic or `artistic’ films. Since Dr. and Mrs. Sibley Watson were her dearest friends, she must have seen his early experimental films, such as Lot in Sodom. I heard the sad story of two young men, however, who when they discovered that she had never seen Eisenstein’s Potemkin insisted on taking her. There was a short before Potemkin, a Walt Disney film; this was when the Disney films still had charm and humor. After the movie they went to tea and Marianne talked at length and in detail about the ingenuity of the Disney film, and nothing more. Finally they asked her what she had thought of Potemkin. Her opinion was brief but conclusive: `Life,’ she said, `is not like that.’”

Thank you Patrick Kurp for wonderful and insightful Intersections of books and life.

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Open Conundrum: Sincerity or Parody?

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Open Clean Energy: We Deserve It!

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Open Suffering of fools gladly (?)

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

-- John Updike

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Open Censure: Ladies Pro Goof Ass.

The New York Times reports...

Concerned about its appeal to sponsors, the women’s professional golf tour, which in recent years has been dominated by foreign-born players, has warned its members that they must become conversant in English by 2009 or face suspension.

Concerned about their share of the profits, never mind the integrity of the players.

“We live in a sports-entertainment environment,” said Libba Galloway, the deputy commissioner of the tour, the Ladies Professional Golf Association. “For an athlete to be successful today in the sports entertainment world we live in, they need to be great performers on and off the course, and being able to communicate effectively with sponsors and fans is a big part of this.

Never mind said athlete can play golf well.

“Being a U.S.-based tour, and with the majority of our fan base, pro-am contestants, sponsors and participants being English speaking, we think it is important for our players to effectively communicate in English.”

'We want to insure that those fur-iners stop beatin' us up and takin' our lunch money... Hellfire, iffen they cain't talk good English then I says they shou'n't be allowed ta play at all. Sheeeesh, cain't unnerstan a word they says.'

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Open Endorsement: Strange Bedfellows

Politics: the game where you start out cutting your opponent's throat and end up getting in bed with him.

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