Timshel

working between 50 & 60 hours a week since the hurricanes hit us, so blogging is not easy until part of my cohort returns from maternity leave. Anyway, this is my quote of the week. Liberal Oasis is fantastic.

Sarah Palin has become painful to watch. This is worse that [sic] watching a train wreck. This is like that scene in the movie Misery where James Caan gets his ankles broken, it is that painful.

Granted that I'm a committed Democrat, but I didn't think much of John McCain's speech. The substance isn't important, but really, throughout this convention--visually--all speakers have more or less been thrown in front of a black screen. In the case of John McCain's speech, they threw him in front of a green and then a blue screen. I can't wait to see what Colbert does with this...

Goodby Gustav. That's been a very tense week. I hate the lead time on these things now. You sit around waiting, growing ulcers, and listening to Ray Nagin, and you just get freaked out.

Happily enjoying the propane generating power at my office right now. It's still a little gusty here in Lafayette, but I'll be going home tomorrow before curfew.

The situation south and east of here was not so good...

Michelle Obama was OUT OF THIS WORLD tonight. No one is talking about it online.

I only vaguely remember the 1992 DNC. Fleetwood Mac was memorable, but that's about it. My recollections of Hilary Clinton over the last several years are not particularly enamoring. Meanwhile, Michelle Obama displayed herself as the embodiment of the liberal dream for women, African-Americans, and the middle class. She and her family are the absolute picture of what works in our flawed country. I hope somebody watched besides me...

[update 105 am]...didn't they credential all these fudging bloggers to shape the discourse? This kind of pisses me off. At least I tuned to Fox News later in the evening and found that the worst they could find to do was once again compare Barack Obama to the "American Idol Candidate."

Really, the next time someone says something about a "latte-drinking liberal," I hope that this is dramatized somewhere...

The six-car caravan (two silver minivans, two tan SUVs and two white 15-passenger vans for the press) left his cabin retreat at just before eight in the morning. Eleven minutes later, the caravan pulled into the parking lot of a Safeway, where a sign proclaimed the presence of a Starbucks.

Cindy McCain, clad in a light pink shirt, khaki shorts and flip flops, paced in front of the Safeway, talking on her phone for a few minutes, her hair pulled into a pony tail. A bit later, she went inside the Safeway and emerged with a coffee cup in hand. A staffer was seen coming out of the Safeway with two cups of coffee and some drycleaning.

H/T to Matthew Yglesias, among MANY others...

By all realistic comparisons of success in their respective sports, Misty May-Treanor has done considerably more in her career than Jason Kidd.

Why isn't he the one sporting a tattoo of her on his back?

The AP on Bush's visit to New Orleans:

Deborah Harris didn't get to meet President Bush on Wednesday and she didn't care. His visit to this city, not far from where she's living in a trailer in the hurricane-devastated Lower 9th Ward, didn't help her in any way, as far as she could tell.

"So what if the president's here?" she said from the shell of a house she's struggling to build nearly three years after Hurricane Katrina left the neighborhood in ruins. "Where's the stores? Where are the schools for our children? Where are our homes?

The most positive quote AP reporter Becky Bohrer could gather was, "I guess he's trying."

Makes you think a conference on New Orleans recovery might be a good idea, doesn't it?

Can Katrina recovery please become a political issue? If only polling in this state were as close as it is in, say, Ohio.

Maybe there's something to that talk of Obama as Antichrist after all. He's releasing his demons to the world.

First Chupacabra



Then Bigfoot


I'm terrified.