Some insight

First, this handy graphic from some artist and Andrew Sullivan:

And this fun story from Dave Barry on how his parents negotiated politics:

What was their secret? Gin. On any given Saturday night they consumed enough martinis to fuel an assault helicopter. But also they were capable of understanding a concept that we seem to have lost, which is that people who disagree with you politically are not necessarily evil or stupid. My parents and their friends took it for granted that most people were fundamentally decent and wanted the best for the country. So they argued by sincerely (if loudly) trying to persuade each other. They did not argue by calling each other names, which is pointless and childish, and which constitutes I would estimate 97 percent of what passes for political debate today.

More from the news

According to the Polish news apparantely this American election was more of a priority for Russian networks than four years ago, when a man who resembled “a squirrel-muskrat” was found in a local swamp.

Laugh, but that’s a story you want to read, don’t you? Unfortunately I couldn’t find it anywhere.

Polski News

Watching Polish coverage of the election.

The intro gives McCain a backhanded compliment, lebelling McCain’s speech last night the best lof his life. Soon thereafter they say it’s hard to remember when so many people gathered on American streets happy.

Celebrity spin

It feels weird to be writing for a distinctly different audience than when I was at The Morning Star – at this point that being no audience at all. And since this is the web, where keywords reign supreme and everything needs to be searchable I feel I should work to optimize this blog for search engines.

So, let’s try a little story that, if all goes well, will tap into what people really want on the internet:

Walking down the road the man stops to look at a planter full of flowers. He is sick of politics, tired of hearing about BARACK OBAMA, JOHN MCCAIN, SARAH PALIN, JOE BIDEN, GEORGE W. BUSH. He’s sick of the Canadian election, the LIBERALS with STEPHANE DION, the CONSERVATIVES with STEPHEN HARPER and even the GREEN PARTY’s ELIZABETH MAY. He has totally forgotten about JACK LAYTON and the NDP.

“What a bunch of BOOBS,” he thinks. In the states, There is OBAMA, with his message of hope but his inability to stamp out the REPUBLICANS and JOHN MCCAIN. SARAH PALIN seems to bring some SEX appeal, but intellectually she seems only slightly ahead of BRITNEY SPEARS, LINDSAY LOHAN and PARIS HILTON (and beyond flashing their NAKED bodies at the cameras, one of them even made an honest-to-god PORN).

All these politicians seem to be just running for JOBS. If they were playing BASEBALL, they’d just be trying to hit SINGLES, rather looking for the long ball. And the MEDIA is just following the election like its an NFL game and we are all just GAMBLING on the outcome. But this isn’t TEXAS HOLD’EM, it’s not even TETRIS or a game for the XBOX 360 or PLAYSTATION 3. What happens will shape the future of North America.

What these ELECTIONS need is a sort of idea-VIAGRA. Something to get rid of the DRUDGE REPORTs out there. They need something to stop people from GOOGLE searching JENNIFER ANISTON, CLAY AIKEN and BIG BROTHER. Maybe someone needs to put out the mother of all YOUTUBE videos. It needs to link to a FACEBOOK page that is actually about something. But then the stupid people at FACEBOOK, decided to fix what wasn’t broken. Now everybody hates it and soon nobody will give a rat’s ASS about it.

But I digress. The point being, if there was a big idea out there, maybe things would change.

People would talk about it at weekend POKER. They would stop buying trashy magazines with BRAD PITT and ANGELINA JOLIE on the cover and forget about AMERICAN IDOL. Even kids will forget about DRAGONBALL and MILEY CYRUS for a couple minutes. Then their RITALIN will kick in again. But maybe, just maybe PEREZ HILTON would stop blogging about CELEBRITIES, people would realize how ridiculous WWE and pro WRESTLING is, and we’d get tired of JENNIFER LOPEZ. And maybe someone with some BALLS would take over DISNEY.

Otherwise we’ll just be talking about BOOBS bigger than PAMELA ANDERSON’s twins.