It won't stop the Obama-hating trolls, however.

I don't want mountain-top removals to power cars any more than I want middle-east invasions to power cars. By all means, let's transition away from both of those things to renewable energy sources. It's a whole lot easier to power electric cars with solar and wind power than it is to power internal combustion cars with those things.

Please let McCain choose Romney for his VP spot. I want to see if MediaCorp can print free IOKIYAR passes fast enough to cover for two over-the-top flip-floppers like them.

But there's something in the American psyche that just can't abide authenticity.

I suggest that in many cases, the implied comparison with our own inauthenticity makes us uncomfortable.

Because they're not Hillary supporters anymore.

Sure, delegates can -- and should -- vote for her as delegates to the convention, and no, I'm not saying that people who preferred her should STFU. But at this point, anyone who is actively opposing Obama is also actively opposing Hillary's clearly expressed goals. It makes no sense to do that and still be referred to as a "Hillary supporter".

Sure, delegates can -- and should -- vote for her as delegates to the convention ...

Obviously, I meant that I think delegates should vote for her if they were chosen to do so.

... and "unenthusiastic" and "unconvincing" and so on: Your cover is now completely blown. You probably should have just skipped this discussion. Perhaps you should start over with new usernames.

But why, o why couldn't she have acknowledged that nobody stole the nomination from her.

Probably for the same reason that she didn't acknowledge that the world is round.

Clinton looked great and sounded terrific, it only she'd directly addressed the elephant in the room (carefully chosen metaphor!) with a comment like, "We've all heard about the PUMAs, but make no mistake - people withholding support from Barack Obama and the Democratic Party because they're unhappy with my losing the nomination are hurting me and all the causes I support, including women's rights.

She probably didn't address them because she knows that they're not an elephant, even though MediaCorp carefully positions their cameras to make the mouse look like an elephant.

Your post about the columns is satire, right Alex? You're making fun of concern trolls, the shallowness of media coverage, and wondering whether McCain's campaign is really desperate enough to try to make a big deal out of Obama's stage set.

Right? Right?

This is obviously not Jerry Falwell's god.

Au contraire. Have you read the Old Testament? This very well could be Jerry Falwell's god, even if Jerry wouldn't have been happy about it.

That's an impressive amount of wrong in a relatively small post.

1) You can try to speak for your own god -- if you really think that's a good idea -- but you don't get to speak for mine. I could be wrong, but mine has certainly seemed fully supportive at the same-sex weddings I've been at.

2) An appeal to history isn't really a good idea if one actually looks at the history of marriage ... unless one is fond of the idea of women as property of men, or at least subservient to them.

3) As for the supposed "poor mental and physical health and mortality statistics in the gay population", to what very limited extent there's anything to that, it's not a function of sexual orientation. It's a function of a heterosexist society's attitudes towards anyone who doesn't fit. It's a similar dynamic to what's behind health statistics correlated with race, class, and gender. (Or to put it much more simply, the reaction to diseases is much different when they're first noticed in straight, white, well-off men.)

These attitudes change slowly, but they are changing, thank the gods and people like Del Martin.

Welcome to the 21st century.

The NEW Republican Party: Now only twenty years behind the times!

What's with the McCain campaign announcing this pick on the Friday before a long weekend? Isn't that when you make announcements that you absolutely have to make but want the fewest people to notice?

Just think. If 72 year old McCain dies in office, a WOMAN will be President. Admit it, deep down inside, you and some sad women who spend their lives obsessed not with HUMAN issues, but who view everything through the prism of being a woman, would be estatic over a woman - any woman- being President.

Except the odds are high that Ms. Palin has already agreed to step aside if it comes to that. There's no way the current Republican leadership would've put someone like her on the ticket, otherwise.

Count on it.

If President McCain (shudder) ever got so much as a serious cold, the Republican leadership would pull Vice President Palin's pre-written letter of resignation out of its very-carefully-labeled folder and have it on her desk before anyone could say "Gesundheit".

Am I really the only one who thinks the Republican leadership has absolutely no real intention of ever letting Ms. Palin sit behind that big desk in the Oval Office? If President McCain (ugh) were to die -- or even start having serious health problems -- they'd have Vice President's Palin already-written resignation on her desk faster than a slap-shot hockey puck.

The only question in my mind is whether they've already decided who'll step into her spot.

Palin has every bit as much experience as Obama.

I don't know what's funnier, the fact that some people can write that and pretend to mean it, or the fact that some people really believe it.

SanatFeMarie at DailyKos did a time-line-based comparison, and it shows just how absurd the comparison is. (Link via my name.)

... and smart. With the McCain campaign so intent on self-sabotage, the best thing to do is simply get out of their way.

I look forward to another two months of Roadrunner vs Coyote episodes.