You Don't Need Our Take on the Debates...

...not if you can get Fred Thompson's.

Better yet, you can read Blogs4Brownback's hilarious exchanges in advance of the debate. Some favorite lines: "The Constitution is an obvious fraud to me because it guarantees that which the Bible prohibits, i.e. due process of law, the freedom to be secure in one’s possessions and papers, the freedom to avoid torture, the 'freedom' to express thoughts contrary to the strict word of Christ, equality among the races, the right of women to vote, and the 'freedom' to NOT be compelled toward the only true ideology - the word of Christ."

Unfortunately, Hillary's personal blog is all too silent.

Are there other political campaign satire blogs out there? (A search for a faux Ron Paul blog ended up with waaaaaaay too many hits to too many blogs that were too hard to distinguish between satire and seriousness.) All five of you who read this blog, if you know of any, please comment!

Postponing the Picture Pages

We have to do it again this week. Why? Stupidly, we waited up all night to watch Internet phenom and certifiable nutcase Ron Paul on the Daily Show, which was neither as nutty nor as interesting as one might have thought. And tonight is all about the GOP debate, which is proving to be quite nuts indeed.

Speed Reading

> The Ron Paul Internet phenomenon is being dismissed as (1) just a lot of spam [AC], and (2) just a lot of non-Republicans [Ace of Spades].


> Wow. After you read about shady "auctions" of domain names that aren't for sale, go all the way down and read reason to speculate about domestic spying of the Web. [Uptime]

> The federal government's bizarre refusal to allow any cattle operation to test all its cattle for mad cow disease is more evidence "that this venal administration's declarations about their love of the 'free market' appears to be the utter bullshit we already knew they were." [Anything They Say]

> Bush wants to cut " the only large-scale measurement of the impact of Medicaid, food stamps, school lunches, unemployment and other safety-net programs for the poor" -- with a Bushie explaining, "Life is a trade-off." (Tell that to the people on Medicaid, food stamps, and unemployment.) [WaPo]


> Fred Thompson dips toe into presidential race, turns out to be mack daddy. [Fred Thompson's Private Journal]


> Dems debated last night. [WaPo] Our verdict: Gravel brought the crazy; Kucinich sounded like an episode of Oprah featuring Marianne Williamson; Obama was unexpectedly boring.

Random Ron Paul Observation

Is it just me, or does Ron Paul totally look like that judge from Dancing With the Stars? Separated at birth!

Ron Paul 2.0

News flash: Ron Paul loves the Internet. Duh... it's responsible for all signs of life in his campaign. Ron Paul is becoming the new Howard Dean: outsider candidate who strikes it big with the netroots and then will go down in flames as his party coalesces around an insider. (My money's on the faux folksy one over the pretty boy.)

Prediction: when the time comes that he bows out of the race, the politico talking heads will be falling over themselves to talk about how the "netroots" are now a fact of life for both the left and the right.

Memorial Day Drive-By

>> Who is this moron? (And I'm not asking about Ron Paul.)


>> This is news?


>> McCain finally went back to the Senate after missing more votes than anyone but Tim Johnson, who suffered an aneurysm. Best commentary: “By all accounts, John McCain is not recovering from the brain hemorrhage many believe he suffered around the time he announced his candidacy for president.”


>> This guy asks the question that this blogger has memorably answered.


>> Most people in this country work shit jobs for shit wages, but campaigning about it "carries significant risks." (Because not campaigning about it has totally worked for Dems.)


>> It turns out we were all fucked up before we were even born.


>> Daytime TV: so many reasons not to watch, and now it turns out the hosts and staffers really are that insipid.


>> Damn. Those of us who are fantastically good looking are being discriminated against.


>> Nature abhors an idiot.