News from the RNC

[nwhyte]

Dave Barry in New York has "witnessed a dramatic confrontation: A lone, courageous police officer faced an entire sidewalk full of commuters and told them he could not let them through to their subway station. Now if this had happened in, say, Des Moines, the crowd would have peacefully dispersed, because (a) Iowans are low-key, and (b) Des Moines

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[djm4]

John Kerry immediately released a statement stating that he strongly disagreed with both of the president's positions.

Well, for that matter, I strongly disagree with both the president's positions, largely because I'm likely to disagree strongly with any position that includes the 'war on terror' as a background. I think viewing terror as an entity that it is possible to declare war on is such a monumentally unhelpful concept that pretty much any argument that follows from it is likely to be pretty much drivel.

However, I'm unconvinced that either John Kerry or George W Bush has the perspective to realise this. From a US politician's point of view, it's attractive to view any problem as something that the undoubted might of the US millitary can be thrown at.

[hardrada]

Navigated here partly by accident, and oh boy, am I glad I did. In a bizarre manifestation of synchronicity, I was just thinking about Dave Barry for the first time in aeons. I was wondering what he would make of the shenanigans surrounding the RNC. And it appears he has not disappointed. In the most divisive election in living memory, he has cheerfully injected his own brand of inanity into the proceedings. While I used to sniff at Uncle Dave, and declare that Royko's humour was more subtle and all round funnier, I now see the error of my ways.

Not to understate the seriousness of the campaign, I will say that anyone who can nudge the laughometer in a positive direction, especially in as un-partisan a way as Uncle Dave, is welcome in my book.