Thursday, October 14, 2004

 
The Arizona Debate
Nutshell: The Cards rule.

Update (10/27/04): Ugh.

posted by Malaclypse the Tertiary at 1:22 AM ·


Sunday, October 10, 2004

 
Zen and the Art of the Rant
I've been made aware of two blogs about which I was previously unaware.

One of them is brand spankin' new and belongs to the august personage of one Abram Siemsen. This dude is smart, multi-talented and snarky which make him, in my mind, a blogstar potentate. I'm guessing his blog will be consistently provocative and his position vis-a-vis political philosophy will be hard to pin down, all of which make for a great read. I was vexed by his very first (well second) post.

The other and rather excellent blog is The Ranting Haze. A colleague of mine directed me to this blog ("Haze" is a friend of his.) I have yet to determine much in the way of details about the guy responsible for this blog other than that he's damn well-spoken and seems to be neck-deep in the study of medicine (or related.) He seems to be either a partisan Republican or Libertarian, but in either case, his blog is informative and witty.

Perhaps I shall get motivated and update my blogroll someday...

posted by Malaclypse the Tertiary at 2:40 PM ·


Saturday, October 09, 2004

 
Wash U Debate
Nutshell: Bush was articulate. This man is clearly not the simpleton the media would have us believe him to be. Kerry is likewise articulate, perhaps moreso, but this debate reinforced the image I have of him as a Seth Pecksniff, "a direction-post which is always telling the way... , and never gets there."

Anyway, having read a truly ridiculous number of debate blognalyses, I have to quote an amusing bit from this summation by Daisy Cutter.
My 11-year-old interjects this: "I bet if the audience could talk, they would ask what his plan is."

Indeed, the audience is skeptical. A voter asks, "Will you look into the camera and tell us you won't raise taxes?" Then ... Lerch-Munster approaches the camera and it looks like he's coming into my living room. Get out of here!! Hide the children. Is he taking a head count to charge us per person?! Scary.
Heh.

posted by Malaclypse the Tertiary at 1:06 AM ·


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