The Week in Review

Well, what can I say? There are more than a few bright points in the weeks past, perhaps none more inspiring than the sight of Clint Curtis at Tropicana Field as the Feisty Devil Rays vanquished the Satanic Red Sox. Mr. Curtis, you ADD-addled Americans must remember, is the former Yang Co. programmer who blew the whistle on bogus electronic voting machines and Fiendish Representative of the 24th District, Tom Feeney, the dirty, underhanded bastard behind Florida 2000. Although he lost the primary in his bid to unseat Feeney, this reporter is heartened that Florida will be playing with paper trail ballots which MAY help to subdue a SMALL amount of Republican Vote Counting Treachery this November.

As well, it would seem the tablespoons of socialism administered to the cosseted, man-child that is the U.S. economy has taken its effect and the Fake Economy has stabilized for the moment. Nom Dieu, doesn’t anyone else feel that these clowns from Fannie to Freddie to Lehman, et al amount to little more than Spaulding Smails and his yacht club buddies all grown up and crying for more hotdogs and cheeseburgers? Sacre’Poutine!

But is there anything in this godforsaken media landscape more depraved than the twenty-four hour news cycles of MSNBC, FOX, and CNN? Like some deranged addicts one the Violent Prowl, they cravenly devour stories like Palin’s Baby and Joe the Plumber without regard to content or substance? Watching Wolfe Blitzer try to describe John McCain’s debate performance as ‘throwing punches’ caused me to check the channel guide. Was I not watching ‘Intervention’? and wouldn’t some kind family please emerge from the shadows and scurry this poor, delusional bastard off to some gentle facility in sunny California?

I will say one last thing as we careen into the final two weeks of this two year long debacle. Wrong! I won’t say a thing. Roger D. Hodge, of Harper’s magazine has articulated it so much better than I, a poor and simple Canadian ever could. With regard to this dismal performance of the Democratic Party in past and current election cycles:

After eight years of catastrophic Republican misrule- in the midst of economic crisis and rising unemployment, in a nation plagued by ruinous energy costs and inflation, bank failures, and staggering public and private corruption- an eloquent, charismatic, intelligent Democratic candidate was locked in a statistical tie with a doddering old hack whose primary argument for his claim to the most powerful office on earth is that he was shot down over Vietnam and tortured for five years. Indeed, this remained the case even after McCain demonstrated beyond all doubt, in his impetuous selection of a ludicrously unsuitable vice-presidential candidate, that he lacked the good judgment that is the primary qualification for the job. If the Democratic Party loses this election, then it should forever concede the presidency.

Et vous pret?