mushin no shin

Roderick Long introduces us to a Caucasian Wingnut.
No, really.

Drink Beer. Save the World.
(via Freedom Democrats)

I got a message that someone named ‘Leslie Carbone” was following me on twitter. Having no idea who this is, I clicked through to her web page. I scattershot clicked on a link, which took me to a National Review article, which she apparently wrote. I won’t give her filth the dignity of a link, [...]

I got a spam this morning from one of the Christianist outfits pimping Huckabee. Before getting into the meat of trying to double talk around explaining how a CATO F-rated governor is really a fiscal conservative, they trotted out this little gem:

and as Churchill said “we have nothing to fear but fear itself”

What’s the matter? [...]

Paula Poundstone with an English lesson for the Senators:

I do so love her.

I’ve never quite known how to take Vince Vaughn. I think the thing is, I’ve liked most of his movies, but haven’t much liked him. Seeing him tonight in Wedding Crashers, I think it’s more complex than that — I like him as the jackass you hate, so long as there’s an Owen Wilson representing [...]

Anyone want to go see Dirty Rotten Scoundrels tomorrow (Sunday) night?
I’ve got a two-for-one email coupon for tomorrow night’s 6:30 performance, if anyone wants to go halves on it.

Damnit. Somehow I let myself spend the morning watching Gravel clips on YouTube. Who was I kidding? I can’t resist the urge to stand up with a revolutionary underdog, it’s just in my nature.
Some of the unofficial grassroots clips are pretty good too. For example, here’s one that illustrates the media manipulation of the [...]

It seems my candidate threw in the towel. Sigh. I think it may actually have been my fault. I’m just destined to always root for the one that should win but doesn’t. What can I say, it’s lonely in the 98th percentile.
Well perhaps all is not lost. He’s certainly by far the best choice for [...]

Over at Lesley’s pace I took another candidate selector quiz, with pretty close results, especially near the top. My current list would only be a little different; I’ll drop those who got out after Iowa, and I do have to arrange the middle and bottom a bit more, but here ya go:

Quiz
Me

Gravel
Richardson
Kucinich
Clinton
Paul
Giuliani
Obama
McCain
Edwards
Thompson
Romney
Huckabee

Richardson
Gravel
Kucinich
Paul
Obama
Clinton
Edwards
Thompson
McCain
Giuliani
Romney
Huckabee

So –

Why Richardson over [...]