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You leave yourselves open to charges of insensitivity when you create snarky artwork like the photoshop of a McCain wearing a dunce cap and scratching his head.
McCain can't scratch his head--he can't even button his collar or comb his hair without an assistive device (or an assistant). That's because the torture left him unable to raise his arms past his shoulders.
Frankly, I've met a lot of people who spend a lot of time on their computers, and they're frigging idiots, some of them. Being facile with Google does not a genius make. You can manage just fine without it, particularly if you have a good staff who does know how to use that search engine--AND the Library of Congress, AND Lexis-Nexus.
This should have been the "Election of the New Century." Instead, we get to choose between an inexperienced, sleazy crook and an old, corporate martinet. I'm not happy about either one of them, but ageist and snarky "If you can't use Google, you ain't $h!t!" articles are pretty doggone intolerant, if you ask me, and more so, coming from a web magazine with an ostensibly liberal bent.
I want a President who has the brainpower to listen to input and come to a solid decision based on that input. I want a President who will choose good staff to carry out his (and it will be his, it would seem) directives. Google ain't gonna help anyone with that. And SALON certainly doesn't help the level of discourse with "Naaa naaa--McCain's OLD!!! He's not good at using a COMPUTER!!! Because, like...you know...he's OLD, Dude! Did I mention...he's OLD? Tee, hee!"
Those sorts of snarky insults reflect poorly on you. You come off like snobbish jerks when you do that kind of stuff, the very opposite of "liberal."
