Oh? Upon reading this, my hair—which will never resemble either an en OR an em dash—went into a semicolonic tailspin.*

*Sigh. Just another bad hair day in punctuation paradise.

Glenn, Jane, and Crew,

Good luck getting around the Cities, where the Traffic Gods can be spiteful.

http://twincities.indymedia.org/livewire/2008/sep/update-46

"update from coldsnap: amy goodman has been released. many other journalists, legal observers, medics and friends still inside."

Yargh!!!!! The image of George Bush riding a mountain bike sends a powerful image, all right. It's the image of a guy who can barely keep his balance and breath at the same time. As for talking while he rides, well, it's as powerful an image as him wielding a chainsaw every time he goes to Crawford.

I'm not surprised John Kerry can descend like a demon. I'm betting he can talk while he rides, and possibly in more than one language.

I don't have anything cogent to add, except that this campaign has gone even deeper into the surreal.

We now have a vice-presidential candidate who is ready to lead the country because she knows how to fire people (police chief, librarian) who don't support her. This is no different than what George Bush and Dick Cheney have been doing for the past eight years. So a transition to a McCain-Palin administration would be seamless! Who cares about the issues? We would have a prez and veep who are fighters--and that's all that seems to count.

As for cj's question, "What do women think about Palin?", I will not be voting for her just because she's a woman. (The Green Party ticket is all-female, but the msm have not been paying much attention to them, nor to the other "outsider" campaigns of Ralph Nader, or Ron Paul.)

After a glance at the "Feminists for Life" site, I am even more pessimistic about this election.

The FFL is pleased to see the inclusion of its "trademarked message, "Women deserve better® than abortion,©" in the Republican Party platform."

Its trademarked message? Oh, great. Does this mean women (and men and children) deserve universal health care? Does it mean women and men and kids deserve access to birth control and information about birth control? Does it mean the Republican Party and FFL will work together to make abortions illegal in this country?

That Sarah Palin wants to ban books is all I need to know about her.