Day February 25, 2008

Hillary Clinton: The new Wilma Flintstone?

From D.C. Current at Barron’s (might be firewalled) Compared to Barack Obama’s Web-savvy campaign, Hillary’s is downright prehistoric. Picture Wilma Flintstone trying to best child-genius Jimmy Neutron in a race for class president. Clinton needs the party’s 18-to-30-year-olds to secure…

Nonentity Nader

Nader got 0.3% of the vote in 2004, just three-tenths of one percent.He will almost certainly do even more dismally this year. Obama on Nader “Ralph Nader’s view is, unless it’s Ralph Nader, then you’re not tough enough on any…

Pakistan removed from the Internet

Ostensibly to protect against “blasphemous” YouTube content, but more likely for political purposes, I’m guessing. With presumably unintended consequences. The leadership of Pakistan just created a massive Denial of Service on their own country. Let’s hope this isn’t the prelude…

I’ve been purged!

But then, I never have been able to turn off my brain and robotically accept dogma. My thought crime apparently involved being insufficiently Marxist. Mentioned this to a long-time socialist friend who laughed and said, congratulations. A Steppenwolf lyric seems…