Here and There

Stop it. I’m not wishing for something bad to happen.

I’m merely pointing out that today is the last day of the month.

That, and happy Halloween!

Do it:

You might have heard that the fairly conservative magazine endorsed Barack Obama earlier today.

But have you seen the cover? It gave me chills (and sorry, but I can’t find a bigger image yet):

I guess Joe the Plummer Idiot is off lying about Barack Obama, too busy to make it, as promised, to his candidate’s rally:

As if anyone needed proof that evil exists …

Notice that not a single Big Oil company is having problems these days. This all leads me to believe, with near certainty, that environmental calamity is inevitable. Because, while high oil and gasoline prices were a good thing (causing most Americans to realize maybe they should conserve and drive less), in the end, these petroleum companies who own a large chunk of our government are still so strong, so powerful. How they managed to come out of a negative growth period with historical profits nails the coffin shut in my mind.

Oh, and social mobility? Well, remember the telegraph? Black-and-white TV? Atari 2600? Forget it. Probably never gonna happen again.

What I want to see if executive pay at ExxonMobil for the quarter they just reported.

On the “socialism” farce, like only Rik knows how …

I told you!

A Palin effigy that shows the VP candidate hung from a noose. Not cool. Not at all.

Let’s debate this on merits, people. Ideas, remember? Not lynch mobs.

236.com has some tips.

Ted Stevens convicted on seven counts of making false statements on Senate financial documents

Amid the Democratic National Convention, I undertook a fun little endeavor — composing a possible Obama Cabinet. Here’s what it looked like:

Secretary of Defense: Colin Powell
Secretary of State: John Kerry
Attorney General: Bill Richardson
Secretary of Homeland Security: Richard Clarke
First Superme Court Pick*: Hillary Clinton
Second Supreme Court Pick*: Kathleen Sebelius
Secretary of Health and Human Services: Elizabeth Edwards
Secretary of the Interior: Brian Schweitzer
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: Michael Bloomberg

* The first will probably come in early 2009; the second, midyear.

There are a lot of choices on this list that I’d now take back. I went for names with obvious recognition, clearly.

I’m thinking now that there’ll be a sprinkling of familiars in Obama’s Cabinet, but that the rest will be people most of us haven’t heard of — i.e., people who are the most qualified for the job.

So, basically, I take all these picks back. Heh.

Seriously, she hasn’t. Is it because she has her sights set on 2012? Does she want to avoid being labeled racist by the rabid rightists? Does she want to stay on as secretary of State for whoever wins? What gives?

Thx: Ali Frick via Yglesias.

It’s an old person losing it, forgetting things. It happens. When it does, they shouldn’t be elected to high office. Sometimes, they need their driver’s licenses revoked, or at least an increase in driving tests.

John McCain had such a moment this morning on Meet the Press:

In any other context, I feel sorry for McCain. He’s simply not cut out, mentally, for the task. Forget politics and ideology for a second.

Um … slap?