Thursday cartoon: You want competition? We got your competition right here.
Via Yglesias, who suggests the exciting contest will usher in a new era of socialist bank nationalizations. We should be so lucky.
Posted on Thursday, October 2, 2008 under Economy, Politics | RSS
Today is all about diagrams!
Any thoughts on the upcoming debate? I can’t help but think that if Palin tanks tonight, we will have the Big Mo going right through to Nov. 4…
LT, that was great.
The poetry is pretty funny too.
As Tina Fey would say, “It’s time to go out, get a hat, and then hang the fuck onto it!”
oops. that second part doesn’t have a link.
and i can’t put one up because of those poopooheads over at NBC.
i am talking about the annnuale skit.
sorry this comment blows.
goodbye.
that was me, laming up farrell’s esteemed name.
sorry, honey!
AH-HAAA!
gotcha, nbc!!!
Oh, trixie, I don’t even know where you stop and farrell begins anymore.
The poetry and the Tina Fey are both great. And the sentence diagramming. I totally loved sentence diagramming back in the day, but I’ve kinda forgotten how to do it.
Sweet links. As for the debate tonight, I’m all a’twittered –like it’s Nov 4 already, Christmas morning, the Superbowl or something. I’m nervous, but hoping–have been all day. I’m gonna kick back with Pabst and popcorn, cheer my team on, maybe have sore vocal cords in the morning. God, please help Biden kick butt. Please please please. . . .
And as for Yglesias’s diagram, big money’s on the Queen of England, of course. . . .
ok here’s my first and only attempt at live blogging.
for all her vapidness and gloss, she’s kicking Biden’s ass.
guess what i am going to bed.
let’s hope that this doesn’t translate into anything.
she is blowing big streams of hooey but it sure sounds confidant and that’s what most of america are looking for.
i have one word for youse.
Nu-cue-lar.
Let’s all make a little wish into the cosmos tonight that we don’t have to endure 4 more years of this inanity.
Who wants to set up camp in Seville?
are you with me???!!!!!?????
4 more years?? Try 12. I feel absolutely nauseous. Viva Sevilla, si. Viva anywhere else if this nightmare comes true.
I’ll sell the condo in Park City, you guys sell the house in Philly, all others sell everything and let’s go to Seville!
To me, Palin looked terrified and stiff, except when she got mean. She is a nasty, petty-minded motherfucker who’s out of her league. She was better than in the Couric interview, but only because of the debate format.
I thought Biden was pretty spectacular, and I don’t even like the guy. His choking up at the end was a home run — he fakes sincerity like the pro he is!
I doubt this debate changes the polls at all. If you see a one- or two-point variation over the next few days, remember that it’s sampling noise.
Another chart.
Dave, you beat me to it! I was just coming online to link to that same chart, via Sullivan’s blog…
In my nightmares, this is what happens to me when it finally comes time to vote.
OMG, Dave. I may be naive, but I do believe it’s possible for a guy to genuinely choke up about the deaths of his wife and daughter, even years after the fact and even in a political debate.
Palin used the word “supposably” in her Fox News infomercial (oops, I mean interview).
Trixie, I love you.
Say what you want about the NYer, but this article really distills everything down quite effectively. Wow, what a fucking contrast. (Not that we didn’t all know this already, but this feels like essential reading…)
OT, this is kind of happy-making.