Okay, so Joe the Plumber is still famous, making joint appearances with Sarah Palin and stuff like that. Which is weird and cool, in a sort-of professional wrestling way, where one guy yanks a fan out of the crowd and trains him for a match against his rival. But it sure does make one of [...]

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In the comments to the last post, StuporMundi asks about the reason this blog’s had some tumbleweeds blowing through it the past month or so:
Is your absence from the blogosphere the price we pay just because you felt it necessary to get a job?

The answer is yeah, kinda, which I know is a crappy [...]

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To be fair, a lot of people who are freaking out about how much money the McCain campaign pays Sarah Palin’s makeup artist clearly have no idea how expensive it is to hire someone who knows how to cover up lobotomy scars.

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Week six of my football column, Down and Distance, is up at Troubl.org, and it goes something like this:
I spent Saturday at the Three Points Ranch, just outside of Marble Falls, TX, for a wedding ceremony. Evan, a college friend of my wife’s, was getting married to his boyfriend, Addison. They’re both Manhattanites, upwardly-mobile members [...]

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“They have- children. Precious children who have- autism. Sarah Palin.”
Definitely McCain’s most painfully delivered line of the night, and that’s saying something. And how weird that he doesn’t know the difference between Down’s Syndrome and autism. I guess a tard’s a tard, right?

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Oh, slick- John McCain promises to bring up Bill Ayers at the debate tonight. If America hasn’t jumped on that one when slick, sensationalist ads have tried to drive it home, surely it’s because they were waiting for McCain to grin his weird rictus-grin at the camera, laugh that creepy laugh, and say, my friends, [...]

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There’s an interesting bit of politicking going on in Austin right now regarding a ballot initiative called Proposition 2. Municipal ballot initiatives aren’t usually all that compelling, unless they deal with a smoking ban or something, but this one’s pretty great.
Background: In North Austin, there’s a development called The Domain. The name’s ominous, [...]

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[down and distance: week five] | football talk, but mostly about the debates. Five weeks of sports-and-politics without a hail mary reference!

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