Just When I Thought I Was Out.........

Well, after getting overheated on political topics while visiting my family, I decided to quit blogging cold turkey. Now, after a couple of weeks on the wagon, I am weakening, and I fear I will blog again in the near future. I am trying to hold out until the conventions are over, but I can't promise anything......

In the meantime, just to keep my hand in, a few musings:

JOHN EDWARDS

I am pondering who got screwed worse by John Edwards:

1. Mrs. Edwards - "Elizabeth's cancer was in remission!"

2. Ms. Hunter - "I never loved her! What baby?"

3. Hillary Clinton - "I'm sticking by my wife through thick and thin, unlike your jerk husband."

4. Main Stream Media - "Nothing to see here but tabloid trash, move along."

RUSSIA INVADES GEORGIA

For those who were paying attention in these dog days of summer, this is a sober wake-up call. Anyone ready to elect an inexperienced know-nothing as President must now realize that we need a grown-up in charge. The Democrats did have a grown-up available: Hillary Clinton. But she came with so much baggage they just couldn't swallow her, plus they got distracted by a bright shinny new penny.

Does Obama even know that this Georgia is in the Caucasus, or does he think the Georgia caucasus is part of the primary? (Recall that he thinks Arkansas has more in common with Kentucky, one of those "states in the middle," than Illinois, apparently not realizing that Illinois borders on Kentucky.)

Compare the two reactions:

McCain was front and center calling the aggression what it was, talking on the phone to the President of Georgia and displaying an intimate knowledge of the region.

Obama castigated both Russia and Georgia, then accused McCain of conflict of interest because a member of his campaign had done work for the Republic of Georgia. Huh? When did it become shady for a company to do business with an ally?

As serious as this issue is, I love the joke at Opinion Journal:

Breaking News From 1864:
Troops Mass On Georgia Border


AGEISM

Who is looking worn and haggard? Whose temper is frayed? Who needs a vacation from the exhaustion of campaigning? Hint: it's not the Old Guy.

PARIS HILTON

Maybe Obama had to take a vacation because McCain was getting to him. He's scored a couple of good ones including handing out tire gauges labeled "Obama Energy Plan."

The best one, in my opinion, was the ad highlighting Obama's celebrity status and comparing him to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton.

Hilton posted what is being called a "tart response" (hahaha, get it?) on Youtube that was hilarious, saying she was indeed ready to lead the nation, proposing her own energy plan and claiming that, if elected, she will paint the White House pink. John McCain's campaign responded by saying that even though Paris was not as big a celebrity as Obama, she has a better energy plan!

A lot of internet comment expounded on the subject of who knows more about "drilling" but I'm not touching that one.


SPELLING

The Atlantic has a cover article posing the question "Is Google Making Us Stoopid?"

Well, if we're talking spelling, it certainly has.

I find any blog comment that misspells words or misuses punctuation hard to take seriously (not to mention the propensity on certain blogs for commenters to use the scatological). I'm not talking about the mistakes that are caused by fat fingers; I'm talking about the ones that indicate an ignorance of your mother tongue. Case in point: lose, loose. These two words are interchangeable in blog comments sections, and yet render the expounder ridiculous:

"Blah, Blah, Blah! You Loose!"

They're, their, there; its, it's; your, you're.... the list goes on and on.

OK, enough for now. We'll see how long I can stay away.

UPDATE: Thanks to our Family Editor-In-Chief for pointing out a couple of spelling mistakes in the above post. Now fixed. It never fails: as soon as you get up on the spelling soapbox, you start making "stoopid" mistakes.