Lex mentioned a week or so ago that he was holding his nose and voting for Obama to do his part to keep Hillary out of the White House. I did the same thing here in Wisconsin and so did my wife via absentee ballot. I don’t see anyone speaking in the major media about the fact that Obama must be getting thousands and thousands of votes from those crossing over to vote for him in the primary contests. Am I the only one that has not seen anyone talking about this?
Dan from Madison
The Jonathan Corollary
This started out as an email to Jonathan, but I think morphed into something that is post worthy.
A few days ago Jonathan proposed Angie’s Law, and along with it the Jonathan Corollary. As a reminder, the Jonathan Corollary is put forth thusly:
People who argue a political point by telling me to read an article or book that they link to are generally not worth arguing with.
That is pretty wise. Today I see a related post at Althouse, where a 911 “truther” challenges Ms. Althouse to a debate and she says to get Bill Clinton to debate you instead. Pretty funny.
Even better is a comment in the thread from one Simon, and it could very well be considered the quote of the day:
Lookit, just because someone has a right to believe something unbelievably uneducated that flies in the face of physical laws doesn’t mean that they deserve the dignity of being treated like their loony idea is worth taking seriously enough to debate. That’s something these 9/11 “truth” folks – as, with unbearable arrogance, they term themselves – need to realize. They’re like flat earthers demanding that intelligent people meet them on the field of debate – or the High School football team from nowhere, KS, who demand that the New England Patriots are clearly an inferior football team since they won’t come out to Kansas to prove that they’re better. (bold mine – dfm).
New Orleans Bleg
When my wife and I were planning our wedding 13 years ago we reached the point where it started to get hairy. You know what I mean…where is so and so going to sit, what color will the linens be, who will do the toast at the reception, etc, etc, etc.
I will give you the very short version of the ending – the planning process started to involve way too many people and quickly spiraled out of control. I remember to this day sitting on the couch in our apartment (yes, we lived in sin!) and saying to my fiance at the time, still my wife to this day the following:
Do you want to get the heck out of here and elope to New Orleans?
The answer was an enthusiastic YES.
And so we did. That was back in 1995.
The Man Who Grew Up In Dixon
I don’t really get into politics too much. I don’t have the time or energy to follow every single candidate’s nuanced positions. Frankly, I think I am like the vast majority of Americans who make their decisions on who to vote for either on the way to the polling place, or actually inside the polling booth. That said, watching what little news I get, I am happy to see that one of my heroes and a fellow Chicago Boy is getting a lot of attention these days…
Spices and Wine
Over the holidaze I received two books as gifts. I finally finished the second one yesterday.
The first one I read was The Taste of Conquest: The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice