My One and a Half Cents

Because inflation is at a 17-year high…

Ok, so I have been planning on reading my comics and blogging for the last several hours and even though I am teaching the same course that I did last spring, I found that “one more revision” turned into several hours of this and that. I have been busy. Work at my workplace, followed by working on caulking in the living room, followed by pizza with friends, followed by assembling the trash and removing it, followed by more questions for my students, followed by updating the attendance roles, followed by doing some dishes. This is all by way of explanation. I have not read the paper or examined any blogs on the topic that, by this hour, has already gotten tedious for some: Sarah Palin. Yes, oh joy. I’ll see you at Lolcats in a minute. I just have one thing to say:

I just gotta think that John McCain is crazy like a fox here. He takes the innovative, even progressive, step and chooses a female vice presidential candidate. What happens? An initial press frenzy that takes much of the attention off the Democrats’ convention. Then, lo and behold, it turns out that Palin is damaged goods — makes it impossible for McCain to turn up the heat on a variety of near and dear Republican talking points. What to do? Chuck her. Next week, after even more skeletons fall out of the closet, he tells the nation that “regrettably this is not the time to take a chance with inexperience…good idea, wrong person…blah, blah (I’m not a speech writer, fill it in yourself)… I have decided to choose a man with experience, who puts country over politics, who is a maverick like me, and will do what he thinks is best and not be swayed by opinion polls…blah, blah, blah…I give you Joe Lieberman. This will happen next week if the Republicans are smart. Don’t flock to my blog telling me that Palin was a good choice. It looks like the only notable thing that she has accomplished was setting up a political machine in Wasilla, Alaska — population 5,469. This is just sad. I mean, come on people, the Republican Party is the Party of Nixon, Reagan, Cheney — serious evil with serious forethought. I just don’t think Palin has the horses for this. I am now wondering if this was a plan to make us feel sorry for McCain. Is he going to end up a pathetic Bob Dole figure — a legacy of public service forgotten in a series of Viagra commercials. That’s really sad. Maybe McCain’s a double-agent working for the Democrats to assure the final implosion of the Republican Party. So, anyway, next week Palin is out. If this doesn’t happen it’s just going to be too damn easy (True, nothing is easy for the Democrats these days…) It has to be Lieberman — what screwup told him not to pick Lieberman?