To everyone who told me I was crazy for supporting Edwards and Clinton, and for having misgivings about Obama:

Ha.

Ha.

Ha.

I'm only laughing because otherwise I might cry.

Hope and change, indeed...Well, he's got the "change" part down. I'm not sure where the hope fits in, though. Perhaps I have to 'hope' that he's just doing this to get elected?

Even though I'm pretty sure that that violates his entire premise of 'change.'

Whatever.

Neil Gaiman on Novels, 'Graphic Novels,' Movies and More

So for those of you who don't know, Neil Gaiman is one of my favorite modern writers evah. I've read just about everything he's ever written, and some of the comic books (also known as graphic novels, the difference between which he goes into). If you haven't read Neverwhere, which is darkly humorous and really original, or American Gods, which mixes up mythologies in a really wonderful way for anyone who's ever loved the stories of the old gods, or the Sandman graphic novels, which are beautiful and dark and full of magic and mystery, you are completely missing out and need to go read one or all of them now. He also co-wrote the screenplays for the movie version of his novel Stardust and the 2007 Beowulf movie, if you saw those.

Anyway, long story short, he was interviewed on Google. It's fun stuff, full of jokes and back-story, and you should go watch it.



Cross-posted at WTF is a Hoosier?

Eep!

From Yahoo! News and the AP, McCain denies claim that he roughed up Sandinista:

Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., told a Mississippi newspaper that he saw McCain, during a trip to Nicaragua led by former Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan., grab an Ortega associate by his shirt collar and lift him out of his chair.

The Republican presidential contender, who is known for his hot temper, was questioned about the alleged incident at a news conference Wednesday here. He noted that at the time, he had been asked to co-chair a Central American working group in the Senate with Democrat Chris Dodd, D-Conn., and had made several trips to the region in that role.

"I had many, many meetings with the Sandinistas," McCain said. "I must say, I did not admire the Sandinistas much. But there was never anything of that nature. It just didn't happen."

His comments did not square with Cochran's detailed recollection of the alleged incident.

I love the "known for his hot temper" bit...Call it like it is, AP. McCain's a vicious, angry old bastard who'll go off at anyone for anything, and even the adoring MSM can't quite manage to paint him as the sweet ol' grandpa type, even if they've managed to ignore his divorcing his wife and mother of his two children to marry a beer heiress (despite her being a trollopy cunt) and numerous incidents of his using 'salty language' to and about other senators. And this guy...is actually in the race, and for some reason people respect him, or at least pretend to out of fear.

I hope to all things holy that Obama doesn't turn out to be Mondale II.

Cross-posted at WTF is a Hoosier?