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Week of October 26, 2008 - November 1, 2008

Me Or Your Own Lyin' Eyes


Shorter Michael Gerson:

An Obama blowout is not a rejection of the conservative governance of the last eight years.  McCain's not a conservative.  Everyone really likes Palin.  

And if you believe that, I've got a FEMA trailer to sell you. 



Two Smart Guys on PBS Scared Shitless


Nicholas Taleb has one of the most fluid intellects that I've ever seen, and The Black Swan is one of the more thought provoking and accessible books I've read in a while.  He's a smart guy, and he knows it. Here's Taleb explaining the credit crisis on PBS with Mandelbrot, the father of chaos theory.  

Obama could be inheriting quite a whirlwind.  

Just Thinking Back...


To this time last year, and the attacks on Kerry while I mailed in my absentee ballot yesterday.  It's been pretty clear who I was going to vote for for a while, but I did give it one last going over before pulling the trigger. Bush had one message and kept hammering it--flip flop, and sissy.  What is the McCain campaign's message?  I'm serious.  It's not like I spend a whole lot of time on National Review or Weekly Standard, or Red State, but I am a news junkie.  What's more, teams that snipe at each other while the game is still being played are not headed for victory. ("Whack job"?! Are you kidding me?). 

The campaign has really has boiled down to blackgaysexdeadbabyterroristcommie.  

That's all there is left.  I think we're witnessing the death of an intellectual era here.  The conservative movement is on its way to the hinterlands for a long, long time.  Adios, and pack your rations.  Don't come out of the hills till the UN invades.

PS--I will gladly give $100 to the first Alaska legislator that introduces articles of impeachment against Caribou Barbie.
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