Dylan: Things Have Changed

A worried man with a worried mind

No one in front of me and nothing behind

There's a woman on my lap and she's drinking champagne

Got white skin, got assassin's eyes

I'm looking up into the sapphire tinted skies

I'm well dressed, waiting on the last train

Standing on the gallows with my head in a noose

Any minute now I'm expecting all hell to break loose

People are crazy and times are strange

I'm locked in tight, I'm out of range

I used to care, but things have changed

This place ain't doing me any good

I'm in the wrong town, I should be in Hollywood

Just for a second there I thought I saw something move

Gonna take dancing lessons do the jitterbug rag

Ain't no shortcuts, gonna dress in drag

Only a fool in here would think he's got anything to prove

Lot of water under the bridge, Lot of other stuff too

Don't get up gentlemen, I'm only passing through

I've been walking forty miles of bad road

If the bible is right, the world will explode

I've been trying to get as far away from myself as I can

Some things are too hot to touch

The human mind can only stand so much

You can't win with a losing hand

Feel like falling in love with the first woman I meet

Putting her in a wheel barrow and wheeling her down the street

I hurt easy, I just don't show it

You can hurt someone and not even know it

The next sixty seconds could be like an eternity

Gonna get low down, gonna fly high

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie

I'm love with a woman who don't even appeal to me

Mr. Jinx and Miss Lucy, they jumped in the lake

I'm not that eager to make a mistake

(I'm with Bob)

It's as insidious in the general as sexism was in the primary. There is absolutely no need for Garrison or anyone else to tie McCain's dithering to his age or to make the link to Reagan in incipient decline. We have had the most dithering, imbecilic president in our nation's history for the last eight years and age had nothing to do with it. Enough with smearing 70-year olds because the fraud running for president on the Republican side is a pandering hypocrite with an intellect that was lacking in wattage as far back as his academy days when he was still in his 20s.

This article answered the first question that came to my mind when I heard about this poll on the news last night, which was: Have they ever polled this question before?

No. I didn't think so.

And that brings up the next question: Why did they poll it this time? And how would similar questions poll, such as: Would you prefer that Obama had a more American sounding name? Would you prefer that Obama was white? Would you prefer that Obama had smaller ears? Cable news could ride the results of those questions for at least a month.

"The 'Simple Jack' jokes would be more offensive if Stiller had substituted tasteful, half-assed synonyms for the word we all know we're not supposed to use."

Nicely put, Stephanie. Save us from drawing room comedy where characters call slow-witted characters the "R-word" and academic tea urban dramas where characters call dark skinned characters the "N-word." Speaking of half-assed synonyms, doesn't Salon routinely treat us all like babies by using the infantile N-word formulation? If I'm a writer (and I am) and I want to convey a fictional character as sensitive and highly evolved, I have that character use phony constructions like the R-word and the N-word. If I need to convey the character as somewhat of an A-hole, I have the character use "retard" and "nigger." What is it that supposedly bright, literate people don't get about this?

I don't think that Obama's crew of advisors have underestimated McCain as much as some of Obama's followers have. McCain's performance last night should have disabused anyone of the notion that there was going to be some dithering old man stumbling on the stage in upcoming debates with Obama. I trust the Obama people will watch the replay of last night and get themselves into a proper Stephen Colbert "Formidable Opponent" frame of mind.

If you'll notice the pivot point in Sarah Palin's speech from the personal to the political was Harry Truman. Lucky for her it hasn't gotten as much attention as it should. Really, Sarah? You want to be comparing yourself to a vice presidential pick who assumed the presidency before the elected president was even half-way into his new term?

Karl Rove never lost an election underestimating the American voters' appetite for total bullshit. Dems give this girl a free ride at their peril. And ours.

"Apparently, there is a constituency of people who want their president to be just like them, who want him or her to be someone they can have a beer with, to be just as clueless and uninformed as they are. But I believe that's a small constituency."