White Supremacists for Obama

Never mind soccer moms; Nascar dads; the blue collar vote; the no-collar vote; or = latte-swilling, Prius driving, liberal elites. The hot demographic in the presidential campaign this year, apparently, is white supremacists.

The Anti-Defamation League and Southern Poverty Law Center, who monitor various supremacist groups like the Ku Klux Klan have concluded some 200,000 people in the US belong to such groups. Evidently, the leaders of this group think that Obama is going to win the election and when that hapens, whites will rise up in - what? - some sort of revolulion; a backlash against minorities that gives supremacists - or "nationalists" or "white activists" - a leg up in political control.

And we thought the Swift Boaters were bad.

The John Edwards Affair Affair

John Edwards, a career politician, had an affair. A horrible lapse of judgment certainly. Extremely painful for his family, no doubt. But spare me the hand-wringing of other politicians over this mess. His former presidential campaign manager David Bonoir, himself a former Michigan congressman, issued a statement after Edwards confessed when he said, "You can't lie in politics and expect to have people's confidence."

Shocked, he is. Shocked! I don't mean to be a cynic jumping on the politician-bashing bandwagon, but is anyone really surprised that yet another politician was caught doing something most of us would find repulsive. Really?

Actually, that is pretty cynical. Think I'll go rest.

Los Angeles puts moratorium on more fast food places

The Los Angeles City Council has voted to keep any new fast food joints from opening in the poor sections of town in an effort to fight obesity.

There's no question fast food is bad for you, but consider a couple things: (1) an awful lot of "wealthy" people drive their expensive SUVs to McDonalds too; (2)if you really want to fight obesity, why not aggressively fund school and extra-curricular physical education and nutrition programs, and take vending machines out of schools, and make cities more conducive to bikers and walkers. Outright bans don't often work very well. Didn't we learn anything from Prohibition?

What's next? Bootleg Big Macs?

Maybe they just really don't like that bridge

Officials in San Francisco are poised to spend $50 million to construct a steel net twenty feet below the Golden Gate Bridge pedestrian walkways in an effort to catch jumpers. Since opening in 1937, the Golden Gate has become the number one suicide spot in the world, with some 1,300 known suicides.

Why do people hate this bridge so much? Wouldn't a coat of paint or some pleasant music be cheaper?

Stunning, and yet not surprising

In the last week, we've seen people falling over themselves to comment on the front page news that the Supreme Court struck down a D.C. handgun ban. Gun advocates rabidly fight to protect what they perceive as the "right" to keep and brandish what is, by design, a deadly weaon. And yet, this same week, an appalling story about how a woman sat in a New York emergency room for TWENTY-FOUR HOURS and then died was stuck in the back of the newspaper. The woman went through convulsions, collapsed and died all while other patients, security personnel and MEDICAL STAFF watched without lifting a finger. It's all on video tape.

Why don't we all put down our guns for a minute and consider the state of our right not to be killed from incompetence and apathy exhibited by our health care system?

We'll all live longer.

You know, in case you were wondering.

Slim Goodbody is alive! Or was recently, at least.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8475072/

At least he wasn't cited for speeding

A man in Brisbane, Australia, was found sleeping in his motorized wheelchair in the middle of the highway and got busted for drunk driving.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gBPtjaLOT3l5Nn5VDyl0XDN0DhawD91FOEL03

One of the cops also noted that one can be arrested for drunk-driving a horse. We're not sure which of you needs to be intoxicated to fall under the statute, however.