Politics: An Excellent Source of Entertainment
A comforting interview with Senate Majority leader Harry Reid:
Question: Do you still think the Democratic race can be resolved before the convention?
Reid: Easy.
Q: How is that?
Reid: It will be done.
Q: It just will?
Reid: Yep.
Q: Magically?
Reid: No, it will be done. I had a conversation with Governor Dean (Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean) today. Things are being done.
THINGS are being done. You know. Things.
An Idaho man vying for Larry Craig's Senate seat has legally changed his first name to "Pro-Life," which is how it will appear on the ballot. The article is here.
Sometimes, I enjoy reading The Badger Herald online, just so that I can read the comments that tear the writers apart. For example, this one, in which the copy chief gets reamed for a questionable headline.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court race seems to have more mud-slinging that last year's, which is saying something. TV stations are bombarded with heinous commercials. I recommend this article from Newsweek, which explores the blatant inaccuracies contained in most of the ads.
I think that my favorite Gableman ad (that attacks Butler) pins Butler as being responsible for freeing a rapist and allowing him to commit another rape. If you watch the ad, you think that Butler was the judge for this case, and handed down the decision. In fact, Butler was the public defender for the rapist, and was appointed to this role by the state. Even more hilariously, Butler did not win the man's release: he served his sentence in full, and only committed his next crime after being out of jail.
I find it really funny that most of the ads attacking Butler accuse him of using "loopholes" and "technicalities" to put criminals back on the street, like this is a heinous notion. Wouldn't you want a judge to be concerned about loopholes and technicalities? I guess I always thought that that was what judges were for.
Lastly! OMF, Battlestar Galactica dog tags! (Most of the main characters are in the military.) Those are so cool! Maybe I could be a BSG character for Halloween....that would be a pretty easy costume to get together, I would just have to figure out how best to fix my hair so that it resembles that of another character's (or find a good wig).
Question: Do you still think the Democratic race can be resolved before the convention?
Reid: Easy.
Q: How is that?
Reid: It will be done.
Q: It just will?
Reid: Yep.
Q: Magically?
Reid: No, it will be done. I had a conversation with Governor Dean (Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean) today. Things are being done.
THINGS are being done. You know. Things.
An Idaho man vying for Larry Craig's Senate seat has legally changed his first name to "Pro-Life," which is how it will appear on the ballot. The article is here.
Sometimes, I enjoy reading The Badger Herald online, just so that I can read the comments that tear the writers apart. For example, this one, in which the copy chief gets reamed for a questionable headline.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court race seems to have more mud-slinging that last year's, which is saying something. TV stations are bombarded with heinous commercials. I recommend this article from Newsweek, which explores the blatant inaccuracies contained in most of the ads.
I think that my favorite Gableman ad (that attacks Butler) pins Butler as being responsible for freeing a rapist and allowing him to commit another rape. If you watch the ad, you think that Butler was the judge for this case, and handed down the decision. In fact, Butler was the public defender for the rapist, and was appointed to this role by the state. Even more hilariously, Butler did not win the man's release: he served his sentence in full, and only committed his next crime after being out of jail.
I find it really funny that most of the ads attacking Butler accuse him of using "loopholes" and "technicalities" to put criminals back on the street, like this is a heinous notion. Wouldn't you want a judge to be concerned about loopholes and technicalities? I guess I always thought that that was what judges were for.
Lastly! OMF, Battlestar Galactica dog tags! (Most of the main characters are in the military.) Those are so cool! Maybe I could be a BSG character for Halloween....that would be a pretty easy costume to get together, I would just have to figure out how best to fix my hair so that it resembles that of another character's (or find a good wig).