On a recent trip...

In case you thought that driving at night on some Indiana highway was boring, I think this picture may change your mind. Exciting, no?

Democratic Primaries

So I wish I had a great image for this, but I don't. Instead, imagine a bunch of hippies sitting around in a circle singing Kumbaya. If they had a contest between them, they can't be as cutthroat in the rules as the Republicans, so as long as you get a reasonable amount of votes in a certain primary, you still get some delegates. Everybody's a winner! Just some more than others.

But the Kumbaya circle is misleading. Really, the concept sounds more nice and friendly, but imagine the acoustic guitarist trying to beat an opponent over the head or the whittler attempting to stab someone else in the back. That is your Democratic primaries.

One of the worst parts of the whole race is an e-mail going around making false claims about one of the participants. Yeah, to the uninformed, it might seem somewhat plausible, but to those in the know, it's an appalling attempt to debase the candidate with baseless claims. I've said it once, but let me repeat again: Hillary Clinton is NOT the queen of the harpies! At least not officially, yet.

Republican Primaries

Aaron Burr vs. Alexander Hamilton - The inspiration behind Republican primaries?

So in case you haven't noticed, we've been in the middle of the primaries for some time now. And while I've had plenty of interest in these races, I haven't had the time to make fun of - excuse me - evaluate them.
I've decided to start with the Republican races. First of all, McCain appears to have sealed the deal, which seems to be quick to do in the Republican primaries.
Republican primaries are brutal win all or lose completely contests. And in these winner-take-all primaries, losers drop out fast and, eventually, happily endorse the leading candidate.

Or something like that...

(REUTERS/Robert Galbraith)
(Um, that's legal, right?)

Even us Whigs aren't this out there

Today I was the proud recipient of the mailing you see here. That's right, you're not supposed to believe anything those "liberal rags" or "right-wing mouthpieces" say. Well, while I can deal with a healthy dose of media skepticism, the unwritten implication is that you should believe a random, for profit, mass mailing.

In this particular case, it's about buying a home. In case you were unaware (in that case, you may be going to too may Whig rallies), the housing market is somewhat in a slump and the economy is wheezing and struggling to go on, somewhat like I recall doing during freshman cross-country meets. Anyway, one likely candidate for the current woes seems to be sub-prime lending. This focuses on the "Check Into Cash" of home loans and apparently this risky venture didn't work out so well. Anyway, this mailing assures those with bad (sorry, "less than perfect") credit that you can still get loans.

"And", it continues, 'it's not like another foreclosure is the worst thing that could happen, am I right?"