intertwingly

It’s just data

Go Long


Tim Bray: this generation of Republicans aren’t reasonable people with whom I have disagreements, they’re corrupt lying torturing malevolent buffoons.

Short People got no reason
Short People got no reason
Short People got no reason
To live

Campaign high point and low point.

They got little hands
And little eyes
And they walk around
Tellin' great big lies
They got little noses
And tiny little teeth
They wear platform shoes
On their nasty little feet

Lauren Wood: The bit I have found most disconcerting in the whole process, which has been going on for months now, is the demonisation of each side’s supporters, the assumption they’re not intelligent/patriotic/… enough. The level of vitriol hurled around is astounding, not only at the candidates themselves, but at their supporters

Well, I don’t want no Short People
Don’t want no Short People
Don’t want no Short People
Round here

Apparently Democrats and Republicans agree that we need to privatize profit and socialize risk.  And that Habeas corpus is passé.  On the other hand, they do disagree on whether socialism starts at somewhere around 40% or at 35% marginal tax rates.

Short people are just the same
As you and i
(a fool such as I)
All men are brothers
Until the day they die
(its a wonderful world)

Perhaps somebody should introduce Tim and Lauren.

Short People got nobody
Short People got nobody
Short People got nobody
To love

Optimist viewRealist view.  Until the conventions, I would have said that either presidential candidate would have done an adequate job, and certainly a better one than any of the three predecessors in that position.  Since then, the last two months have shown a clear difference between the two candidates.

They got little baby legs
That stand so low
You got to pick em up
Just to say hello
They got little cars
That go beep, beep, beep
They got little voices
Goin peep, peep, peep
They got grubby little fingers
And dirty little minds
Theyre gonna get you every time
Well, I dont want no short people
Dont want no short people
Dont want no short people
round here

Randy Newman

Now is a time for a bit of optimism; and a time for winning, or losing, gracefully.