I really need to get out more or something. It's not even February yet and already I'm writing about almost nothing but politics. But how can one resist? I mean, we're well past clown car time. It's like a clown shinkansen over in GOP land these days. It's so crazy that the news that Herman Cain, who has dropped out of the race but was still on the ballot in SC (and in fact had been off the campaign trail the longest), got more votes in the primary than the other five no-longer-campaigning candidates combined (something like 1.2%)... that barely makes the top 10 in crazy-ass-shit that's going on. My personal fave from today is that the Newtron Bomb has announced that not letting audiences whoop and holler for his crazy bullshit is a violation of their (or his... who can tell?) first amendment rights. WTF? Seriously, for a bunch of self-declared Constitution fetishists I swear it's like they've never even read about the damn thing, let alone actually read the document itself. But, anyway, Gingrich says that he won't participate in any future debates in which the audience is not allowed to applaud, chant, or otherwise rowdy up the joint. To which I can only say, do it! I really really want to see some media organization call his (ridiculously obvious) bluff. The idea that Gingrich would pass up a chance to stand in front of cameras and bloviate is beyond absurd. They could hold the damn thing in a bathysphere at the bottom of the Marianas Trench and he'd be there. Alas, I know that won't happen. CNN or whoever's running the damn thing will cave. Because they're spineless. It's long been obvious that Our Professional Media(tm) lack the intestinal fortitude of a dyspeptic tree sloth.
Still, if you don't have a dream how you gonna have a dream come true?