DSK wrote:

Thanks for the links, Walt.

Anytime.


Anyway I am pleased to see that Kerry at least has a chance, barring of
course the cancelling of elections due to elevated terrorist threat warning.

I'm not paranoid enough to think that the elections will actually be
cancelled, but you can bet your Johnson 18 that they'll be some kind of
fear-inducing event right before the election.

Recall 1984 (the election, not the book) where on the eve of the
presidential election there was a sudden "crisis" that the Soviets were
arming the Sandinistas with MIGs. Yes, this faded away in the cool
light of day (there never were any MIGs) but it was on many peoples mind
in the voting booth that Tuesday. Granted Reagan almost assuredly
didn't need the help, but the point is they did it anyway.

So, this is hardly a new play in the playbook. The question is whether
it'll be too worn out after a summer of false alarms based on three year
old information. Sure, lots of people will fall for the same ploy over
and over again, but how many times can you cry wolf before you're
credibility si shot?

... this from PJ Orourke...
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200407/orourke

O'Rourke is a genuine conservative, and is also quite funny. I don't
think he was ever a hippy or a liberal though, even if he did write
National Lampoon articles with titles like "How To Drive Fast On Drugs
While Getting Your Wing-wang Squeezed, and Not Spill Your Drink."

Right. He was never a hippie or a liberal. When he took over as editor
of National Lampoon in '73 (or so - the seventies are still kinda fuzzy)
the magazine lost much of it's initial anarchic briliance and tended
much more to frat-boy humor. By '76 or '77 all the talent had gone over
to work on Saturday Night Live and the magazine was a shell of it's
former self. He's not entirely to blame, but I date the demise of the
magazine as starting the day he took over as editor.

Anyway, I've always found PJ to be one of the least funny of the
original NatLamp crew, and I read him for much the same reasons that he
listens to NPR. But, credit where credit is due, his 1964 yearbook
parody was truly a work of genius.
See http://slate.msn.com/id/2093398/


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