Crosstown World Series

Still an option. 

It’s something I’d love to experience in my lifetime.  

Though listening to Sox fans you’d never suspect its even close to possible.  Why the pessimism?

VP Debate

It’s Thursday.  I’m looking forward to it.

But I was quite sad to learn that the McCain campaign recently demanded changes to the structure of the debate: shorter questions, stricter time limits, and less interactions between the candidates. 

Politics is always somewhat an orchestrated sideshow…but the Palin circus is taking it to the next level.

Bailout Fails

I’m not sure what to make of all this.  Looking just at the idea, I was disgusted by the bailout.  Eventually all of the talk about pushing the problems off to our ‘grandkids’ will actually mean pushing the problems off onto us.  That is if we continue to have even the option of pushing these problems off…eventually the nation will not have folks willing to loan any money.

 

 

But nothing makes me think twice more than clever, historical writing that speaks to nostalgia…

 

The Great Depression was not just a period of wholesale unemployment and incredible poverty — of bread lines and apple-peddlers and women selling brief intimacy for 10 cents a dance. It was also the period of Hitler and Mussolini and, in this country, of Huey Long and Father Charles Coughlin, and the belief among otherwise sane people that communism was the remedy for what ailed us. An economic crisis is like war. It’s impossible to contain. It affects everything it touches.

 

Ben Bernanke knows all this. He might focus on the raw numbers of the Great Depression — “I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished,” Franklin Roosevelt said — but he would also have to know their social and cultural ramifications. You can, if you want, say the bailout program is about the future. But it’s really about the past.

Morning Music

Shelter from the Storm – Bob Dylan

Afternoon Music

Monster Mash – Bob Pickett & the Crypt Kickers

 

October decends this week.  Get pumped.

Quote of the Day

“Happiness, it seems to me, consists of two things: first, in being where you belong, and second — and best — in comfortably going through everyday life, that is, having had a good night’s sleep and not being hurt by new shoes.”

-Theodor Fontane-

If That Doesn’t Scare the Hell Out of You…

Jack Cafferty is as disgusted as the rest of us with Palin’s rambling nonsense. His comments after the clip are spot on.

Morning Music

The Wind – Cat Stevens

The Office

The wait is finally over tonight.  

 

Go HERE to get yourself excited.

You’ve Got To Be Kidding Me

The choice in this election is becoming painfully obvious to me.  The McCain campaign seems in crisis morde.  Looming above it all, the thought of Palin as a potential President is becoming more and more frightening.

I’ve said often that I dispise the idea that once we pick a horse in campaigns, we tend to always give them the benefit of the doubt and never give it to our opponent.  Because of that, the elecorate polarizes in campaign season, with painful policy consequences.  There is always the chance that I may be falling into that trap myself.  However, when I see Palin in an interview like this (one of only three that she has ever given), I shiver.  It’s no wonder that she is not ‘allowed’ to have press conferences (unheard of) and has never ever taken questions from anyone other than the three heavily prepped interviews like this.

Try to find evidence of a single substantive understanding of any issue in this clip.  There isn’t one.  All we get are tired catch phrases and worn generalities.  Simply unfit for office.